The beaches in rainy season

YachtRock

harryopal wrote 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

I agree with you Harry but I will say SungaiWatch is doing its best to hold big corporations accountable. They audit all the plastic they pick up from beaches and rivers and compile reports for the organizations that are responsible for the most plastic waste. I know they have had success reaching out to Danon (Agua) who have increased recycling efforts in Indonesia. It's not much but it's a start at least.

YachtRock

sakumabali wrote 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!

Canggu is beyond saving at this point and that's the vibe I get from the local government in that area. It seems like they just cut their losses with Canggu and hope they do better with the next tourist hotspot that pops up.

AuroraB

sakumabali wrote 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 our trash we are burning"

Not familiar with Bukit, but in Denpasar people can end up with 50Juta fine or 6 months in prison for burning trash, or simply dropping your trash on the ground. So the law and severe sanctions are already in place. So why is there such a problem with trash burning and trash dumping? Oh I forgot, the police is probably handed the job to enforce this law.... [B][I]DENPASAR regulation No. 1 2015[/I][/B][I] [B]CHAPTER IV: CLEAN ENVIRONMENT[/B] Part One: Orderly Disposal of Garbage and Waste Article 12 (page 9) (1) Everyone must dispose of garbage and waste at the designated place. (2) Everyone is prohibited from throwing and stacking garbage on roads, green lanes, city parks, rivers, channels, drainage and other places that can damage the beauty and cleanliness of the environment. (3) Everyone is prohibited from disposing of waste on roads, green lines, city parks, rivers, channels / drainage, and other places that can cause pollution. (4) Everyone is prohibited from burning garbage. [B]CHAPTER IX: SANCTIONS[/B] Part Two: Criminal Sanctions Article 58 (page 18) (2) Anyone who violates the provisions in Article 12 of this Regional Regulation is threatened with a maximum imprisonment of 6 (six) months or a fine of a maximum of Rp 50,000,000 (fifty million rupiahs) and may be subject to other sanctions from statutory regulations applicable.[/I]

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