Cleaning the plastic tide from Bali’s beaches

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Bali is known for its idyllic beaches. But annual monsoon rains and winds sweep mountains of plastic waste onto them. Around 600 volunteers, including local residents, hospitality workers, and tourists, have gathered to carry out a monumental clean-up operation.  #Bali #Environment

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00:00Bali is known for its idyllic beaches, but annual monsoon rains and winds sweep

00:05mountains of plastic waste from Indonesia's cities into the ocean.

00:09It can drift hundreds of kilometres before washing up on Bali's shores.

00:14Around 600 volunteers, including local residents, hospitality workers and tourists,

00:20have gathered to carry out a monumental clean-up operation.

00:24From a visual perspective, I think we saw that this is definitely the worst it's ever been.

00:29You know, we've never seen plastics a metre thick within the sand.

00:34In just six days of clean-up, we collected our first 25 tons, which is a record-breaking for us.

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