We Collected 300,000 Pounds of Plastic in 8 months!

For the past 8 months, we have been busy cleaning rivers in Bali, Indonesia. We have collected over 300,000 pounds of plastic and our cleanup operation is growing quickly! We are catching this plastic through our 50 TrashBarriers that we have installed in our rivers, with the goal of preventing plastic pollution from entering the ocean. We'll be installing 50 more of these this year!
Stay tuned for episode 2 of our Sungai Watch update series!
From the rivers.
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[@claudelebel49]

Teaching people to dispose of their garbage properly would save you a lot of work.

[@mikeshawbrook-selfreliance]

At a lot of locations there is no garbage pickup at all so people either burn it or dump it

[@larajones175]

​@@mikeshawbrook-selfrelianceNo excuses for destroying the eco system.

[@larajones175]

​@@mikeshawbrook-selfrelianceTell your government! Stop littering.

[@mikeshawbrook-selfreliance]

@@larajones175 I am talking about their government. I personally live in the Netherlands, one of the cleanest, most environment friendly country in the world. But feel free to jump to conclusions

[@larajones175]

@@mikeshawbrook-selfreliance I wasn't. All excuses are invalid for littering.

[@springfling49]

The key is education and understanding by the local population. Local governments should provide proper waste management and offer employment in this industry.

[@mskiara18]

These are the people that deserve more media attention! Your are real heroes for cleaning up polluted rivers, thank you for what you do.

[@wayneandrus240]

THIS is what every country should be doing. BRAVO to these fine, dedicated people!!!

[@johnbruhl7136]

This is fantastically jarring!!! Everyone needs to see this.

[@MakeAChangeworld]

Thank you for your support, John! 🌊

[@HanginInSF]

Not us, we don't litter where I live.

[@Dept246]

The Philippines are responsible for a staggering 36% of the world’s ocean plastic far ahead of number 2 India at 12.9%

[@eimanbadri276]

You absolutely right!!! All human in this world must watching this!!

[@Mehdi_Al]

@@Dept246 India forbidden plastic

[@KalpeshPatel78]

I was a part of a waterway cleanup here in Inda a few years ago. We just used the age old method of trapping different size debris using just fishing nets. Fishing nets are super strong the larger fish they have to catch. So we set up 4 points of cleanup. Large nets, Medium-large hole nets, medium nets, small to medium hole nets and small hole nets to catch all kinds sizes of debris at 500-750 meters on the river. Ofcourse, it was not a big cleanup, but we removed approximately 7-8 tonnes of waste and debris from the river. 2 ends of the net were sunk using stones and the other ends above the water were tied to trees or the truck that was to carry the debris. This only for the bigger nets since they get very heavy with all the trapped stuff.

[@n2organic]

I LOVE these people!!! When I saw the person sorting different color bottle caps my jaw dropped. That level of work and detail that goes into it. Not just throwing the trash in a landfill but working very hard to understand the origins and bring responsibility back to the corporations responsible for creating the trash to begin with through gathering data. Also providing jobs to the local people give them income and creates a community of people that are more likely to care. Every video I watch tells me to like and subscribe and I rarely do. He never said to like and subscribe but I immediately did!! I am a trash picker where I live. I love people who are working to leave the world better than they found it but this is next level. Thank you so much for your work! Godspeed and many blessings to you!! ❤

[@ingridwatsup9671]

A big THANK YOU to all of you from The Netherlands 🇳🇱 ❤🌷🌷🌷

[@farisasmith7109]

The scanning plastic packaging to see the manufacturers that are contributing to the problem is a great idea because there is a need for packaging to be changed to compostable materials. Even if a consumer disgards waste responsibility there is way too much plastic garbage. At least you have the data to present to show the amount of their product' packaging is ending up in the waste stream. Metrics are so important.

[@karanikolasspartan8391]

Put a 20% surcharge on all plastic contenders and the responsibility of the companies that are selling there products! Do it now.

[@BusterNoggins]

How about stopping people from throwing trash into the rivers and waterways?

[@farisasmith7109]

@@BusterNoggins The government in that country would have to start to proper garbage disposal programs and have punitive fines for people and businesses that don't follow the rules. They would have to educate the people and themselves to change their mindset. Because in many of these countries there is no proper waste disposal so people throw trash and raw sewage into the river.

[@lisanetgark415]

It is the country’s problem. Their governments do not impose fines on the people who litter.

[@faragraf9380]

since 80th, we made that problem.

[@decomposing_while_alive2002]

We need to make this channel get some traction so more people can be environmentally friendly

[@MakeAChangeworld]

Thank you, we appreciate that!

[@viralmemes9213]

the places that are calling for the environment to improve are the ones hurting it the most. look at CA

[@bvegannow1936]

Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on. Ban farm subsidies. Food packaging is a leading cause of trash. People growing their own food greatly reduces trash, and be more env friendly

[@johneeeemarry34]

People generally are… this is either a charity with very well paid directors or a KZbin channel making money from filming a charity or local volunteers..

[@centurione6489]

This, not demented California rules, makes a difference.

[@wendymorrison5803]

I'm glad that this is happening. The tourist trade has spoilt so much of Bali. Even 30years ago, my first visit, the change was visible. Glad to see that organic material was being left in the river, feeding the natural cycles.

[@brendatenorio5721]

Phenomenal work. Manufacturers AND consumers. People pollute. In Bali that would be residents AND tourists. Locals must be involved.

[@NobleViking4]

I'm glad there is people like you in the world.

[@SimpleHumman]

A Brilliant thought, finding the manufacturer and holding them accountable as well for the pollution they generate. They have to be held responsible too.

[@TB-rp3ug]

Why are manufactures responsible for people throwing trash in rivers or oceans. In Palopo we watched families have outing at the pantai and taking the trash and throw it all in the ocean.. how are manufacturers responsible for those fools 😢

[@i.robles5785]

​@TB-rp3ug they are responsible because in the end, there is nowhere for these single use plastics to go. Cannot even recycle them into other plastics. They are designed to be thrown away and buried in the landfill. Instead they can consider the full life cycle of such products and determine how they can change it to be biodegradable within a few months.

[@armandosantos2255]

REALLY I LOVE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR MORE CLEANING ON THIS WORLD

[@alymlon]

I would give you million likes if I could. Your enthusiasm is priceless! Thank you for doing this enormous job! Hopefully, the awareness amongst local people will be greater too and all that plastic and other rubbish will not go into rivers.

[@susangreen8820]

Thank You to all the people who are helping to cleaning the rivers hopefully this can happen all over the world well done everyone.

[@bvegannow1936]

Yes. Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on. Ban farm subsidies. Food packaging is a leading cause of trash. People growing their own food greatly reduces food packaging trash.

[@susangreen8820]

@B vegan Now I agree with you all the governments need to start listening to the people who voted them in and the manufacturers need to try and stop using so much plastic it's shocking we need to stop this before it's to late .

[@bvegannow1936]

@@susangreen8820 people could try to grow more of their own food to stop buying as much food packaging. The manufacturers make it cuz people buy it.

[@susangreen8820]

@B vegan Now your right people need to be shown how they can grow their own food it's not to hard I learnt if I can do it anyone can .

[@bvegannow1936]

@@susangreen8820 the issue is gov not letting people use land to grow their own food, not so much that people dont know how to grow food. Plant food forest. Rain collection. Automatic watering system. Grey water system.

[@beanewson8100]

thank you so much for what you are doing

[@MakeAChangeworld]

Thank you for your support Bea! 🤗

[@OzyIllustrates]

Something that we had back in the day here in the states was if you gathered glass bottles and tin cans, you could take them to specific stores or facilities and get paid per pound. If either the big businesses of each product found or the government implemented such a program, more and more citizens would get involved and it would also help with increasing incomes which would help the economy. Keep up the fantastic work!

[@zachrohler1047]

Glass bottles have almost been entirely replaced with plastic, most of the packaging can not be recycled, most plastics cant be recycled. Remeber when the green folks banned paper bags? Plastic bags cannot be recycled because the jam the shredders lmfao. Paper bags could be super easily recycled and yet the green folks pushed the us to use plastic bags. Dont belive me? Look at your recycle bin, it literally tells you not to throw in plastic bags

[@mwalabi63]

The earth, neighborhoods, and streets are not dumping grounds, nor is it a giant trash can. Littering, from individuals, companies and corporations needs to change today. Make it law, legal and a global responsibility. Local, city, state, national and global organizing is crucial. Communicate, educate and let's change it together. Thanks for the work you and others are doing.

[@clairehowell3951]

This should be shown on national TV in England What great work your doing thank you 😘

[@natalliaf6387]

are the English notorious litter-bugs?

[@the_lost_navigator7266]

@@natalliaf6387 English, Welsh, Scottish, yes sadly. I collect items for my walks, but there is so much more.

[@webmasale]

Nobody watches national TV but boomers

[@runninbyfaith777]

Remarkable. True testament that one person CAN make a difference and bring great change 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

[@James-kv6kb]

You might want to watch the video again there was more than one person cleaning up or is it like the old British days where the coloured people don't get counted only the white person running it

[@suzanneborserini1225]

Wonderful when i was in bali i was really sad to see so much plastic everywhere in such a beautiful place love from australia

[@kellijackson8012]

We are all responsible for this mess and we all need to do more to clean up as these wonderful people have!

[@kelly5music]

It's super impressive how quickly this project is growing! Congrats and thank you for all the work that you do! 👏🌊 I'd be very interested to learn more about your data analysis - is there a report you publish?

[@MakeAChangeworld]

We're so grateful for our community! You can download all of our plastic data reports on our website at www.makeachange.world/sungaiwatch. We have a video coming out soon about data :)

[@anitachopping]

🌲🌳🌴

[@synappticuser7296]

This is a shocking wake-up call to the whole world! It should also be a wake-up call to governments and industry! We must change the way we live, and the products that we make and use! These people are doing something fantastic in cleaning the rivers, but it's sad that they have to!

[@esmyyt3061]

This makes me so happy! I wish every community had a cleanup day every week

[@cramhead]

It so great to see you and others helping to fix these huge societal problems. Very inspiring

[@thereefaholic]

Congratulations. This is the first group I have seen focusing on the river where the overwhelming majority of ocean pollution comes from. Well done Although focusing on the manufacturers is skipping over the people more directly responsible for where it ends up. Chances are the towns along the rivers don’t have adequate trash collection, or people are directly tossing their trash into the environment or both. That’s the target.

[@httr21skins]

Agree. Going after the companies doesn't make any sense. This is a local issue and needs to be solved there.

[@R.E.A.L.I.T.Y]

YOU GUYS ARE ALL HEROS 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@user-jl5it3ks6y]

Very inspiring! Thank you everyone involved for your hard work and caring.

[@worldcooking]

These people are true role models!

[@unbreakableldorado7723]

This is so amazing! We need that around the world!

[@bvegannow1936]

Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on. Ban farm subsidies. Food packaging is a leading cause of trash. People growing their own food greatly reduces food packaging trash. Help prevent trash instead of just cleaning it up

[@sambencheghib8909]

Gary is crushing it !!

[@MakeAChangeworld]

💪💪

[@monicaa.w9982]

How can we help?

[@misCarmencita]

Great work all! Lots of thanks to you!

[@user-zh6wp8sk9w]

من العراق 🇮🇶 هؤلاء هم الأبطال الحقيقين احسنتم بارك الله فيكم ❤

[@laurenshadbolt2961]

Incredible work! I love how you’re getting the community involved especially by giving them employment during the pandemic. I’d love to know where some of the trash goes after

[@MakeAChangeworld]

Thank you very much Lauren for your kind words. We are really trying to get the community as involved as possible as it is only all together that we can hope to solve the problem. Regarding where the trash go, we will focus on showing this in the next episode 🤗

[@bvegannow1936]

Yes. Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on. Ban farm subsidies. Food packaging is a leading cause of trash. People growing their own food greatly reduces trash.

[@johneeeemarry34]

I’d love to know where the masks go…. There’s millions of masks in the oceans… whose going to clean them up?

[@monicaclark9581]

Yes, during the pandemic would see masks littering the parking lots in shopping centers. Some people think that everyone should pickup after them!

[@jasonthomas7019]

Recycle

[@reinadelmar11]

Amazing work! You and all the volunteers in Bali ROCK!!! I can't believe how bad it has gotten..I was there in the mid 1980's and noticed the alarming trend of mini blue clorox bottles (and of course, the chlorine) in the river from laundry but never imagined it would get this bad. I remember at the time feeling that a lot of the problem was that not too too long ago, everything that people used in Bali came from nature and was therefore bio-degradable. It takes a change in thinking to understand why we need to do things differently. Where I currently live in the USA, it's total devolution...it seemed like people were starting to "get" the litter problem way back in the 70's but instead of eradicating that behavior and demanding that packaging and our consumption patterns change, things have just gotten much worse. The city I live in is drowning in trash and nobody seems to care.

[@SussexsLove]

Thankyou for doing this on behalf of Planet Earth! Thankyou so much. 🌍 🙏 ❤❤

[@nopenope9118]

I know I’m super late to this, but I just found this video. I work in marketing for a pizza company in the US and setting up school fundraisers is honestly a great idea. I regularly set up dine-to-donates to help schools, PTOs, and non-profit organizations raise money and even if the initial impact is small, through continued fundraisers and marketing it can make a real difference. Marketing can be as small as reaching out through email personally. If the local schools can’t facilitate raising money for an outside company, I’d even look into tourism boards or tour guide companies. Capitalizing on the large tourist population could help you raise a decent amount to continue cleaning Bali’s waters. Tourists will definitely appreciate clean beaches, oceans, and rivers and may be willing to chip in to help! Keep up the amazing work!

[@steveroperfilms]

What a fantastic effort and commitment. I think a part of the problem is that marginal income households have to pay for rubbish collection and disposal. A sponsored free collection service would be a huge investment in Bali's future. Take care Steve.

[@rubenbraekman4515]

I like to advocate for a free waste collection with a limit, let's say a 2 parent household with 1 child can make x amount of trash for free. Above that amount they have to pay, another family with more children is allowed more trash. This way it would not only make people less skiddish about trash collection and reduce trash dump but also make people aware to reduce the trash in the first place

[@zanebaldwin6819]

@@rubenbraekman4515 Somewhere I heard Bali has a program "Trash for rice"...for every kg of trash turned in for disposal the people receive 1kg of rice.

[@OpenBook101]

I love this and .. Where can I donate some funds that will allow you to purchase wetsuits and protective gears for the workers? Coz they are exposed to some scary looking waters .. and I just want to help anyway I can. Thank you to anyone who involve in helping clean the planet.

[@breimalislobodnoime]

I am also interested.

[@alex98764]

Thank you for your hard work ! Wish you good luck 👍🏻🍀

[@user-dw1uh7id1h]

Let' make this channel more notable, so that the good people actually get what they deserve, and people get more aware.

[@HarishReddy-vk6tv]

Great job!! Lots of respect from another brother

[@abibetancourt5941]

This is amazing. Great to see people doing the hard work we need to do to save our environment. You are all incredible. Keep up the good work!

[@MakeAChangeworld]

Thank you so much Abi! We're boots-in-the-water everyday cleaning rivers but it's worth it!

[@vedanshupadhyay9839]

This is unbelievable👍👍, the amount of efforts that your entire team puts in everyday is amazing. Great job guys..... Keep doing it

[@elco3601]

Respect and great thanks to you all, guys!!!!

[@carolleighton4579]

Fantastic work, thankyou for helping the environment. 🤗🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@hoggybhoy1967]

This is brilliant. Keep up the good work troops 👍🍀

[@kpatel7995]

outstanding work done by all these wonderful people. People around all these areas should see what you guys are doing and learn not dump garbage everywhere.We all responsible for keeping this Planet Clean for the next Generations. Thanks.

[@samrey1803]

You're mother Earth's white blood cells. Proud of you guys for keeping our mom healthy. ❤🎉🎉

[@HunterWilliams]

Brilliant work guys! Amazing to see the huge tangible impact you're having on your home and community.

[@MakeAChangeworld]

Cheers Hunter! We're so excited about this 300,000 pounds removed milestone 🙌 Gotta get you out to Bali ;)

[@tinutolat2433]

તમે ખુબ જ સરસ કામ કરી રહ્યા છો....... ભગવાન તમને શક્તિ આપે......

[@danielgasser8925]

Awesome! Thank you all and everyone for collecting trash! Where ever you are! ❤

[@lisalim453]

The world thanks you for your service to humanity!!! 😊😊😊😊

[@lenarubinstein7797]

You inspire people tone better thank you

[@ppppa1786]

Thanks a lot for this!

[@shraddhagurung19]

WHAT an amazing job. Applauses. 👏👏👏

[@looqischmidt5581]

Lots of love and respect for your phenomenal effort. And thank you to you all. Greetings from Greenland.😊❤

[@UniSolJeroen]

I love the work you do and always support the cleanup projects around the world, yours is on a bigger scale than others I've seen and I wonder where your funding comes from to employ 250 people and excavators for a long period of time. I want to learn so I can help others.

[@Suburp212]

Wow. Well done. I collect tiny amount of litter through litterati. But you are on another scale. Well done.

[@susanbowman2054]

Thank you for caring for your world 🙏🏽

[@MegaThefuture]

When people get together to do a good deed miracles happen. Life on the Planet could be Paradise if we started doing these right things!

[@fabienben9277]

Well done guys 👏 This is truly outstanding

[@MakeAChangeworld]

Thanks for your support, Fabien!

[@BalboaBaggins]

Thank you for being an example for others and for protecting our beautiful planet 👍 👌 ❤️ 🌍

[@gillianmalcolm4573]

SUPER HEROES NEED MORE PEOPLE LIKE THIS THAT RESPECT MOTHER EARTH.

[@anniinthewoods8287]

Inspiring ❤️ I pick up thrash from my local river when canoeing. Nowhere near as much as you but now I feel motivated to get out even more

[@celticrose2]

Thank you to all the people who cleaned 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@0animalproductworld558]

Good job 🐇 You are influencing the world positively 🦃

[@charleshaberl7563]

Community efforts worth supporting. Thank you for helping protect animals and the environment.

[@granny-nyan]

Well done, you all. ❤ You're saving the world.

[@louislamonte334]

Thank you so very much for doing this!!

[@stephanx5187]

It's unbelievable what you're doing there! Can't understand that we humans do this to nature and deal with garbage so carelessly. I hope that there will be a solution as soon as possible to end this littering. A big thank you to you helpers and a lot of strength to get through this!!! Highest Respect!!!

[@stopwars8642]

Awesome job , finally people that care and are doing something about it, the earth is in Gratitude

[@umeshmaharjan9543]

People like you that world needs to keep clean and healthy .

[@criscris2959]

Felicidades, me parece muy interesante que codifique la basura con el lector de código de barras, Porque no se trata solo de recolectar basura. Se trata de hacer responsables a las grandes empresas que aún continúan mirando hacia otro lado. Felicidades! Saludos desde España, son ustedes un gran ejemplo.

[@gavinspiby8304]

That’s amazing work Really can’t thank you enough for caring 👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@johnhall999]

Thank you. Hard work and not taking the piss. Realistic honest not asking for much and getting things done! If you have a company or can afford then please help.

[@MJ1919]

The companies need to pay fir this. They are the ones making the huge profits at the expo our beautiful planet. Thank you for caring so much. You are an amazing example to the rest of us 🙏❤

[@lindatenbras6711]

Thank you for doing this. You made great effort by cleaning these canals. keep doing the good job.

[@jeancharlestassoni6325]

Congrats to you and the team, this is an amazing job!!

[@MakeAChangeworld]

Thank you so much Jean Charles! 🌊

[@momentsandadventures3552]

Best video. We need to be responsible collectively with our waste and also cleaning our communities.

[@saprakiranbhai5202]

I am Indian. And I am impressed your work. one earth one family.

[@WinkWonkWonkWonkWonk]

You should leave the logs because it will slow down the flow and allow the aquifer to saturate. Great job. Very inspiring!

[@katebali]

Amazing good work! You guys are incredible, we need more people like you!

[@MakeAChangeworld]

Thank you for your continuous support, Catherine!

[@BusterNoggins]

Cleaning the rivers is great, educating the people to stop throwing trash into the rivers is better especially in the long run.

[@freezebrain4905]

Your a legend my friend, great work! Love how you are taking much needed data of the plastics must be so much work. Your hard work will always be remembered as the start of people taking over corporate greed.

[@SINCOPATION21]

Great job out there! We all need to pick up some to help the earth! Congrats for your teamwork!

[@giannaras2010]

Thanks for caring for the nature! You did good job there!

[@DalesWorld72]

It`s a shame that a foreigner started the campaign instead of the locals. The government should support this initiative to initiate more projects like this. It`s time to revive rivers around the world.

[@vc4154]

Congratulations you are leading the way, teaching the world that it takes one person to start making a difference.It looks amazing afterwards, much respect to you all.

[@abigailpip112]

Thank you so much. Im a world away from Bali, but clean up rubbish in my local neighbourhood and Im so happy to see you preventing plastic from going intpo the seas. Do you have any success putting pressure on big companies to change their packaging? What do you do with the rubbish after its sorted? This idea needs to go world wide

[@rahulkumarroy3107]

Huge respect buddy…..it’s phenomenal effort . Surely an inspiration for all.

[@thomastaylor6699]

Thank you and your teammates for cleaning up all the plastic pieces and the wood from the waterways. It looks soo good when your done! Keep up the good work!

[@michaelpeck1346]

I hope this place can do something to convince their government that waste management is absolutely essential. But it’s nice to see people taking matters into their own hands.

[@fulcherpj]

Wonderful group of people! You are making such a difference. The rest of the world needs to follow your example!

[@lenarubinstein7797]

Wow ✨👏🏻 Thank you 🙏🏻

[@rainbowfox1934]

Thank heavens, there are people beginning to address this huge problem. Manufacturers need to change packaging so it can be easily disintegrated.

[@markanderson9323]

Thank you all extremely much for helping mother Earth. Our only home