“TAKE TIME”
Each year, pounding rains wash away mountains of plastic waste from Indonesia’s cities and bulging rivers into the ocean, with some of it drifting for hundreds of kilometres and ending up on Bali’s beaches.
The trash wave is “something that repeats” on Kedonganan beach and others in the area annually due to the monsoon rains and winds between November and March, according to Dalem.
Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, has pledged to reduce marine plastic waste by 70 per cent by 2025.
Tourists were frustrated by the sight of plastic piles washed up on the island’s beaches.
“I think it’s a horrible thing. And for tourists, it’s the reason why a lot do not visit Bali. Because of the trash,” said Russian Danil Kovalev, who has visited the island three times.
“Sometimes I see this on other beaches.”
Source: CNA
