adopt a beach in Bali

Harry08

So, Beck in Kuta beach at my favourite spot and guess what, to get to water, I have to walk through trash. I ask the guy whos chair I usually rent and buy food and beer if he is up to earning extra cash. So, I "adopted a slice of this beach" he cleaned it up and I payed him X k. This slice of the beach is clean, I am happy and he is happy. I invite you to do the same! Here is an interesting article about cleaning the entire country in 1 day and how this idea started to spread internationally. https://www.letsdoitworld.org/cleanworldleaders/en/index.php

davita

Better get a few more X k ready as it will be the same again tomorrow or the following day. This is a yearly event due to the westerly winds during the wet season..Until they dissipate, hopefully soon, trash will continue to end-up on that coastline. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-21/bali-beaches-swamped-by-garbage/9467974

Harry08

Better get a few more X k ready as it will be the same again tomorrow or the following day. This is a yearly event due to the westerly winds during the wet season..Until they dissipate, hopefully soon, trash will continue to end-up on that coastline. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-21/bali-beaches-swamped-by-garbage/9467974

But it looks nice for few hours and the heap of crap they collected was impressive. I can skip a beer and be even. :) Keeps me healthy and tiny slice of the beach clean for a day. Imagine, if 50 tourists spent some pocket change like that every day.

Harry08

Progress

SusanSydney

Harry08 wroteProgress

Lovely!

hadodi

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Lovely!

what is lovely about this?

Better get a few more X k ready as it will be the same again tomorrow or the following day. This is a yearly event due to the westerly winds during the wet season..Until they dissipate, hopefully soon, trash will continue to end-up on that coastline. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-21/bali-beaches-swamped-by-garbage/9467974

Harry08

hadodi wrote... Anyway, enjoy your few squaremeter

I sure did enjoy those few square meters and way more than I had enjoyed few shitty lagers they sell here. :) I can't invent a single excuse why not to do it again.

hadodi

[ATTACH=full]3077[/ATTACH] must be great feeling having tons of garbage around you

mugwump

hadodi wrote[ATTACH=full]3077[/ATTACH] must be great feeling having tons of garbage around you

The locals where I live are busy each day cleaning up the beach. The only problem is that they are cleaning it of black sand which is probably the largest local industry, as it disappears nightly by the truck load.

Harry08

Regardless, this shaut needs to be cleaned or it will go back to the ocean with next tide. Eastern, offshore winds will not "clean it up", garbage just floats offshore and nothing really changes. Hadodi, it's nothing like it any more. This was probably December.

hadodi

So, Beck in Kuta beach at my favourite spot and guess what, to get to water, I have to walk through trash. I ask the guy whos chair I usually rent and buy food and beer if he is up to earning extra cash. So, I "adopted a slice of this beach" he cleaned it up and I payed him X k. This slice of the beach is clean, I am happy and he is happy. I invite you to do the same! Here is an interesting article about cleaning the entire country in 1 day and how this idea started to spread internationally. https://www.letsdoitworld.org/cleanworldleaders/en/index.php

Tell you what - you just not thinking that you support their laziness and stupidity. They do NOT want to learn till the whole island is destroyed. Anyway, enjoy your few squaremeter

hadodi

Harry08 wroteRegardless, this shaut needs to be cleaned or it will go back to the ocean with next tide. Eastern, offshore winds will not "clean it up", garbage just floats offshore and nothing really changes. Hadodi, it's nothing like it any more. This was probably December.

It does not matter WHEN it was, but THAT it was, my fri nd

Teddybear

Harry08 wroteRegardless, this shaut needs to be cleaned or it will go back to the ocean with next tide. Eastern, offshore winds will not "clean it up", garbage just floats offshore and nothing really changes. Hadodi, it's nothing like it any more. This was probably December.

Well, heres an idea, turn the rubbish into beach art, sculptures, monuments, statues, crazy shapes, just pile it up and start being creative, charge tourists to visit, sell them , a new industry awaits, T.

Teddybear

Teddybear wroteWell, heres an idea, turn the rubbish into beach art, sculptures, monuments, statues, crazy shapes, just pile it up and start being creative, charge tourists to visit, sell them , a new industry awaits, T.

Bali Beach Art awaits T.

davita

It does not matter WHEN it was, but THAT it was, my fri nd

This problem is not unique to Bali where it is a cyclical problem from December - April. The Gov't does provide a clean-up but this year's unusual weather has overwhelmed them and volunteers stepped in. Here are some pics of the problem on other beaches around the world...... https://search.aol.com/aol/image;_ylt=A0SO8zSrkZhaL10A7GNpCWVH;_ylu=X3oDMTByZDNzZTI1BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMyBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?q=world+beaches+affected+by+trash&v_t=non_chrome-hyplogusaolp00000112

hadodi

Teddybear wroteWell, heres an idea, turn the rubbish into beach art, sculptures, monuments, statues, crazy shapes, just pile it up and start being creative, charge tourists to visit, sell them , a new industry awaits, T.

You can find garbage from Indonesia at East African coast. There is a village which makes sculptures, but does not get money out of it

hadodi

This problem is not unique to Bali where it is a cyclical problem from December - April. The Gov't does provide a clean-up but this year's unusual weather has overwhelmed them and volunteers stepped in. Here are some pics of the problem on other beaches around the world...... https://search.aol.com/aol/image;_ylt=A0SO8zSrkZhaL10A7GNpCWVH;_ylu=X3oDMTByZDNzZTI1BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMyBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?q=world+beaches+affected+by+trash&v_t=non_chrome-hyplogusaolp00000112

WHERE does all the garbage go? Is there any recycling industry here? What about the Governor's promise that Bali would be plastic free in 2015?!

Teddybear

Teddybear wroteBali Beach Art awaits T.

Would be creative be a tourist visa violation , I wonder ? T.

Teddybear

hadodi wroteYou can find garbage from Indonesia at East African coast. There is a village which makes sculptures, but does not get money out of it

Start a Beach Art Rubbish Festival , all those bored creative Ubud expats probably would love to start it up , Arty tourists worldwide and even from Eatern Africa would probably attend too, who knows where it will end , plastic bottle water skiing , revycled rubbish hats and accessories, my favourite would be make your own bikini from whatever u find on the beach, of course both sexes could enter, I am on my way as a judge. T.

Harry08

Btw, here is list of 10 rivers that are responsible for 95% of all the crap in world oceans. Yangtze East China Sea Asia Indus Arabian Sea Asia Yellow River Yellow Sea Asia Hai He Yellow Sea Asia Nile Mediterranean Africa Ganges Bay of Bengal Asia Pearl River South China Sea Asia Amur Sea of Okhotsk Asia Niger Gulf of Guinea Africa Mekong South China Sea Asia