Volunteers collect trash trapped by barriers, which are called 'trash boom', at a river in Badung, Bali, Indonesia, on Saturday (June 6) on Environment Day. An army of volunteers on recovered masses of plastics caught by floating walls of wire and pipes, installed six months ago to keep it from reaching the sea. - Reuters
BALI, Indonesia (Reuters): Gary Bencheghib grew up on Indonesia's idyllic resort island of Bali and watched as plastic waste clogged up the winding waterways near to his childhood home, or found its way out into the ocean.
Bencheghib, 25, is now determined to change that, and on Environment Day joined an army of volunteers on Saturday (June 6) to recover masses of plastics caught by floating walls of wire and pipes, installed six months ago to keep it from reaching the sea.
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