The beaches in rainy season

AuroraB

Annual update in link below. Some photos of tourists lounging watching the cleanup. That is what you get for your hard earned money spent in Bali during 'garbage season'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11638351/The-REAL-Bali-Sad-photos-showing-popular-beach-covered-trash-stun-Aussies.html

hadodi

Unfortunately it’s true. No really efforts are made to solventhis huge problem.

hadodi

Unfortunately it’s true. No really efforts are made to solve this huge problem.

Mark

A quick Google search would inform anyone interested that it's not a great idea to come to Bali for a beach holiday in the middle of the rainy season, unless they don't mind lots of garbage washing up on the beach.

Balifrog

hadodi wrote Unfortunately it’s true. No really efforts are made to solve this huge problem.

Not much to do about it, except educating the people in the Kampungs not to throw their trash in the rivers or waterways. Good luck with that ......

Markit

Easiest problem to solve that can be! Just allow the police to make on-the-spot fines (IDR50k) for anyone found littering and then let them keep the dosh! Sorted in one month, for sure!

harryopal

It says something about power. This is a world wide problem with once pristine coastal areas now littered with plastic and rubbish wherever you go. Whenever there are campaigns to clean up it is all about you and I being responsible and organized clean ups being paid for, again, by you and I with taxpayer money. Nowhere do I hear of responsibility being sheeted back to the large, oil company corporations and other big business producing the stuff and making piles of money. Most corporations give money to political parties across the spectrum and it seems governments everywhere are loathe to bite the hands that feed them

RossM

Balifrog wrote Not much to do about it, except educating the people in the Kampungs not to throw their trash in the rivers or waterways. Good luck with that ......

Yep, the problem is largely caused by the locals. Tourists are generally environmentally aware, and don't pitch their rubbish into the environment..

sakumabali

I was kinda shocked to see big beach clubs like Finns NOT having a trash outside. I passed it with some trash I picked up from the beach and thought I could throw it there in a dustbin. Not one. This would also be the responsibility of the balinese government in my opinion - at least to coordinate this. I was there for a month in LV8 (they also not having one outside) and I saw none all along the beach. How expensive this would be if big moneymakers à la Finns etc would contribute to society and organize this? Finns btw had a mountain of smelly trash next to the stairs & gutter - perfect in a rain season!

Balifrog

At the missus house in Java (where I have my man's cave and occasionally visit) we instaured the use of garbage bins and ashtrays and chased the visitors and family to use them. Traditionally all the garbage went in a stream in front of the house. Same stream where they shit, shower, swim and wash clothes.... So we bought a concrete pipe segment about 1 m in diameter, and burned our garbage in there every evening. Needless to say that when we are not there I am sure it is all back to traditionnal style. The missus having worked in SGP and HKG she is quite sensible to this.

AuroraB

Balifrog wrote So we bought a concrete pipe segment about 1 m in diameter, and burned our garbage in there every evening.

Nothing beats noxious smoke inhalation.

sakumabali

I was once invited in a big villa in Bukit with ocean view. We were sitting on the terrace and enjoyed the smell of burnt plastic on the neighbor yard. I complained about it and the owner who was sitting relaxed next to me (a doctor by the way!) said to me: "that`s our trash we are burning"

sakumabali

Hi Aurora, yes I'm aware of the law. I told so many people about the fines and so on. Long story short: I was kinda the neighborhood idiot & people just shrugged and kept burning. I went to the Banjar and saw that they're burning their trash in front too...sigh

Balifrog

AuroraB wrote Nothing beats noxious smoke inhalation.

This is a very small village, more a community with no public water distribution, no sewers, no garbage collection. But there is electricity ! Just to give you an idea.... So yes, I am aware it is not a perfect solution, but the choice is throwing it in the river or burning it. As simple as that.

sakumabali

Better burning than throwing it into the river or ocean...

Balifrog

sakumabali wrote Better burning than throwing it into the river or ocean...

Exactly what I think.

Markit

If everyone started burning that shit just imagine how fast Aspergers pin-up girl Greta Thunburg and her cast of trany tree kissers would be on it!

RossM

Annual update in link below. Some photos of tourists lounging watching the cleanup. That is what you get for your hard earned money spent in Bali during 'garbage season'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11638351/The-REAL-Bali-Sad-photos-showing-popular-beach-covered-trash-stun-Aussies.html

I'm not a beach type, so Bali is still worth visiting for me. I never set foot on a beach on the south coast, and only occasionally walk on a beach in the north, never immerse myself in salt water, even at home.

Balifrog

RossM wrote I'm not a beach type, so Bali is still worth visiting for me. I never set foot on a beach on the south coast, and only occasionally walk on a beach in the north, never immerse myself in it even at home.

Typical dramatization by an Aussie rag, they are even worse than the UK rags. Anybody with a bit of brain and before deciding on the date of an overseas trip should have a quick look on Google concerning the season and what goes with it. Anyway in the old pensioner's beach ressort of Sanur, we don't have this problem.

RossM

Balifrog wrote Typical dramatization by an Aussie rag, they are even worse than the UK rags. Anybody with a bit of brain and before deciding on the date of an overseas trip should have a quick look on Google concerning the season and what goes with it. Anyway in the old pensioner's beach resort of Sanur, we don't have this problem.

You''re asking a bit much Balifrog. Every day on facebook pages, people ask what's the temperature today, when they're arriving in 3 months. Also what's the exchange rate.....I'm coming in July, and those people are permitted to travel ALONE!!!

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