Volunteers clean up Bali of monsoon trash


Working together: People removing plastic waste and other garbage washed ashore at a beach in Kedonganan Badung regency, Bali . — AFP

HUNDREDS of volunteers joined a clean-up in Bali as monsoon rains brought what an activist described as “the worst” waves of plastic waste to hit its tourist-favoured beaches.

The South-East Asian nation is one of the world’s biggest contributors of plastic pollution and marine debris, with annual monsoon rains and winds sweeping mountains of plastic waste from its cities and rivers into the ocean.

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