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PHOTOThe famous beaches of Bali are littered with plastic debris, which experts say is turning into a catastrophic event caused by monsoons and waste mismanagement, as well as the global marine pollution crisis. The Guardian’s online site reports this.
Authorities are struggling to keep up with the tide of garbage dumped on the beaches of Kuta, Legian and Seminyak, where around 90 tons of garbage was collected on Friday and Saturday.
Wayan Puja from the Badung Area Environment and Sanitation Agency said: “We have worked very hard to clean the beaches, but the garbage keeps coming.”
The Indonesian government launched a national strategy in April 2020 to combat the “looming crisis” of plastic waste that is affecting the marine environment and the country’s economy.
Denise Hardesty, a senior researcher at the Australian scientific agency CSIRO and an expert on global plastic pollution, said that a “large amount” of plastic is currently collected on beaches and that it gets worse every year. “It is not a new phenomenon, it happens every year and has grown over the last decade,” he said. Trash on the beach is increasing in line with the global increase in plastic production.
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