Volunteers and foreign tourists in Bali clean up beach trash

(5 Jan 2025)
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Jimbaran, Bali, Indonesia - 5 January 2025
1. Various of local and foreign volunteers cleaning up trash on beach and putting it in plastic sacks
2. Women dragging plastic sacks filled with waste and placing them with other sacks
3. Wide of sacks filled with trash on beach
4. Volunteer Nyomad David Suarta lifting trash and putting it in sack
5. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Nyoman Suarta, volunteer:
"From year to year the amount of waste on this beach has never decreased, on the contrary it has increased because of the increasing needs of people along with the increasing population so the piles of waste look increasingly large."
6. Excavator among piles of wood on beach
7. Piles of wood
8. People picking up and moving large log
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Gary Bencheghib, co-founder of Sungai Watch, an environmental NGO:
"Education is really, really lacking when it comes down to the plastic production problem, so our goal is to get people here on the ground. You know we've had so many local people coming here today, some tourists, some hospitality workers, all wanting to do something about it and try to protect this beautiful island."
10. Wide of sacks of trash on beach
11. Various of volunteers putting sacks of trash onto an excavator
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Bianca Simmons, tourist:
"I really feel like the government need to make a massive change toward this. Yeah, they need to be making this their priority. I know there's a lot of building going on, lots of foreigners moving in which is great but, you know, this is not a priority and this should be a massive priority."
13. Various of volunteers cleaning trash and wood
14. Wide of beach
15. Excavators working to clean up trash
16. Sacks of trash being unloaded

STORYLINE:
Tourists on the Indonesian island of Bali joined local volunteers on Sunday to continue a clear up of trash on a popular beach.

Piles of plastic and wood which had built up on Jimbaran beach were packed by the volunteers into white bags and taken away.

During the two-day event, 7,400 kg of plastic waste and other non-organic waste were collected, according to Gary Bencheghib, co-founder of Sungai Watch, an environmental NGO which organised the clean up aimed at stopping litter entering the ocean.

Bali is one of Indonesia's main tourist spots, attracting around 6.3 million foreign tourists in 2024.

Tourist Bianca Simmons, who took part in the litter pick up, urged the government to make beach clean ups a priority.

"There's a lot of building going on, lots of foreigners moving in which is great but you know this is not a priority and it should be a massive priority," she said.

Bencheghib said education on plastic pollution was "lacking."

"Our goal is to get people here on the ground," he said.

"We've had so many local people coming here today, some tourists, some hospitality workers, all wanting to do something about it and try to protect this beautiful island."

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