After taking on plastic, Bali sisters want bar raised on climate action

Youth environmentalists Isabel Wijsen, 17, and Melati Wijsen, 19, speak as they stand on a pickup truck during Bali's Biggest Clean-Up 2020 in Petitenget Beach, Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia February 15, 2020. Courtesy of Bye Bye Plastic Bags/Jenya Kadnikova/Handout via REUTERS

BADUNG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Dismayed by the plastic waste strewn over their home island of Bali, sisters Melati and Isabel Wijsen have channelled Ted Talks and international conferences in raising global awareness through a youth-led movement to try to eliminate the scourge.

It was not "rocket science," said Melati, 19, of the plastic waste problem that prompted the sisters to set up their "Bye Bye Plastic Bags" initiative seven years ago.