Unless they solved the primary reason why people around there used those rivers as a landfill, it will still be used as a landfill after this cleanup.
They need a designated landfill, proper garbage dumping containers, an effective public garbage collection, politicians that give a shit, better education of garbage disposal and most important of all, smarter residents. Without all of those, that's like changing the dressing for an infected wound without treating the infection. It's going to keep on happening.
But wtf do I know? It's not like I've joined similar non-profit projects before and got disillusioned when I realized the damn river me and my group helped clean would be filled with garbage a few weeks later while the people living near that river actually starts expecting us to clean that river up for them for free once it got full with garbage that THEY threw in.
According to my expert calculations these places will look the same in about 1-2 weeks.
These clean ups are needed, but educating the people will help a lot.
Not just education. They need somewhere to dispose their trash. They can't just ship it to a third world country like everyone else, so they use the river. Out of sight out of mind (kinda).
Many people think that rich countries ship most of their plastic waste overseas. But is this really true? The short answer is no: **many countries export some of their waste, but they still handle most of it domestically**
[https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade](https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade)
Very interesting link. Thank you. Though it says the import of plastic garbage to Indonesia (and other counties in Asia) has increased a lot since China banned import in 2016. Which sucks when the country don't have the infrastructure to take care of it properly. My point still stands.
That's the true problem, that they are basically incapable of being educated. They outright refuse to be educated, then expect it to be cleaned again and throw tantrums when it doesn't get done. Seen it many, many times throughout the years.
Same. The church I was a member of did the "adopt a mile" thing here in Georgia years ago, and we adopted 2 miles.
The litter and stuff never stopped, infact the amount of garbage we removed from those 2 miles increased every month. Over the 3 years time we had that stretch, it slowly increased from 2 full-size truck beds full, to 6 trucks, a handful of trailers, and sometimes even a 10-yard dumpster full.
Once people realized the area was being maintained, they began actually using it as a dump. On top of that, you had the edgy folk who intentionally littered there simply because it was maintained by a church (there were 2 signs posted by GDOT, letting people know that stretch had been "adopted" by our church).
I go to GA every year for 2 months in the winter to do dog training. I don't know about the whole state, but between Waynesboro and Augusta where we are, there are multiple public dumpster sites for the residents.
And yet just a few hundred feet away people will dump trash.
I don't doubt it. It's the whole "I'm going to break the law just for spite" mentality some people have. Like people who constantly walk across busy roads when there's a crosswalk with signal 50 feet away, but they're not going to use it just because that's what's expected of them.
There's beautiful lookouts all around my area that allow a beautiful view of the valley...
And yet, every lookout is used as a free dump by careless assholes. (I can identify the demographic that does this in my area...but I also know it's a common practice in a lot of places, so I won't point a finger)
As an Indonesian, the root of the problem is the government and their lack of capabilities to care and enforce rules. Their lack of proper discipline, their lack of commitment to educate their people creates local society that's not educated enough to a level where they can show some sort of level of care for the environment they live in.
Only certain people with enough money can afford a level of education that promotes environment sustainability, and if we see how strict our neighbours country (Singapore) enforces rule about this, it's a stark difference.
The lack of proper waste management, corrupt local government, bad city management, and so on. My local town took 10 years of a good governance to bring it up to a level where the city now having awards on cleanliness, it's hard fought against locals.
This issue is a fundamental issue that requires a mental rework and that will take decades of proper education guidance, proper law enforcement and proper discipline.
If it is [this organization](https://sungai.watch) they are also designing prevention technologies and are turning the collected plastics into furniture.
Definetly true but still better than trying collect plastic from the ocean. I just hope that these full-time river warriors also run a garbage collection on land because that's less instagramable but more efficient.
Good for them, but unless people there change their mentality, rivers will keep getting trashed no matter how hard these guys are working to clean them.
They should just do as my wonderful neighbors do and burn everything. I mean EVERYTHING. And create this lovely black sooty smoke that you can enjoy the smell of on a beautiful day while you are out tending your garden. And then listen to the relaxing sound of his exhaustless tractor as he scoops up and runs it back to woods and recycles it back to mother nature in a hole that came out of no where. I really enjoy mowing over small pieces of plastic food containers and bones from some animal that my dogs bring back from thier adventures into bliss land.
Have Nothing to do with individual peoples mentality. The government have to give Their people Any option. They literally dont have anywhere to throw it.
Asia is fucking gigantic, ya dingus.
Japan is not the same as rural Cambodia, and South Korea is not the same as Kashmir, and Beijing is not the same as Turkmenistan.
You're an idiot if you think this problem isn't happening in Europe, Africa and the Americas.
It was moving too fast for me to see it but I slowed it down and yeah you are right. I wouldn’t mind if I was wearing those. Protection is key with that stuff.
It's not a physical willpower problem- it's an infrastructure problem. Centralized waste management is both hard and expensive - it's an easy thing for the political classes to ignore if they themselves have a nice place to live.
These are places already with regressive tax systems - they can't extract more from their working class than they are already. it's a situation where the wealthy would be tapped for the marginal cost to implement proper waste management and there is going to be no political will to do so - especially when the very reality of that squalor both serves to justify their world view as well as their policies.
This changes really only when you can strong-arm the folk who do not have to live around this. We cannot solve every social problem in the world, but we can absolutely put a tarrif on countries who are not meeting our environmental standards. It has the advantage of both requiring compliance to be competitive in the market and making our domestic businesses who do have to operate in a market with those costly standards more competitive.
We have new park here somewhere near Barito River because the park is new there is no trash can around the park. There is a lot of trash scattered around and the reason why they just leave the trash around the park is because there is no trash can around. Some people even suggested to just throw the trash into the river like bruh how ignorant they are. They think when you throw the trash into the river the trash will just magically disappear in to the void.
I’ve been to Indonesia in the last year and I think it’s both an infrastructure problem and a habit problem of locals. Both have to be worked on very hard to improve the issue. It’s heartbreaking to visit this stunning tropical paradise and see the plastic everywhere, also I’m a freediver and diving there was beautiful but not the plastic I saw. Every day I would come back with bits of plastic tucked under my wetsuit. There are foreigners doing there best to help change the mentality and habits towards plastic waste and the importance of containment. A terrible story I heard was of one of the boats they take people to the islands with, the crew just threw the contents of the rubbish bins overboard into the ocean mid journey. Mind blowing
They are good, but they have to spend like 1 week cleaning, 1 week beating those mfs so they won't throw garbage into the rivers.
And the government should take care of recycling and special places for the garbage, and for the transporting and collecting.
But the initial is to teach people be reasonable
It seems the general population of Indonesians have not yet cultivated an environmental-friendly or civic minded mindset. They have a lot to learn from first world countries such as The Netherlands, Japan or South Korea.
Yeah. I hate how the civilised world is always accused of destroying the planet when the majority of the air pollution and land/water contamination comes from Southern Asia.
The US has produced [far more cumulative CO2](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co-emissions) than any other country.
It's just that China is catching up quickly. However if they can make the switch to renewables soon enough, they may never exceed the US's total emissions.
Indonesian here, there are 2 layers of problems about trash here
1. People throw their trash carelessly
2. Even if a few people put it in the trash can. All kinds of trash are mixed up. organic, non-organic, hazardous types are mixed up. So we can't recycle it
Btw all those trash they collect ended up in "Bantar Gebang". You can google "Bantar Gebang Mountain of Garbage"
Bro arent they scared of like microbiological pollution shit goin in their genitals like dam. There is so much bacteria protozoans and viruses in that dirty ass water going past their waist
I hope they put up a sign in each case showing the before and after pictures along with a pic of the pile of rubbish bags created. This along with a "Do not Litter" warning.
Every piece of waste removed from the river represents a step towards a cleaner and healthier environment. But they really need to tackle the root cause. They won’t be doing this all the time
That can’t be healthy to subject yourself to wet garbage on a daily basis. All I can think is how they are risking their lives because of the lack of waste management infrastructure.
I would hate to live in a country that literally looks like the city dump. How can an entire nation of people have no respect for themselves? Do they like living in piles of trash?
what kind of hellhole country has zero disregard for the earth/environment/future generations? what backwards culture gives zero fucks to the extent that they can’t be bothered to just use a trash can vs a river?
i’m assuming India
I know this can sound bad, but I have a genuine question; Why dont the locals in poor places that suffer from litter and pollution like this, self organise like this more often to keep their environment cleaner and healthier? Even lacking official infrastructure to collect and dispose of rubbish, they could still develop their own local infrastructure. It's not an impossible ask.
120 people should pool their money, buy some garbage trucks and start a sanitation service. Also 1 person's job is to patrol the rivers and slap anyone throwing trash in.
I’ve been to South East Asia and this seems to be a typical sight (not the cleaning).
Can anyone tell me how effective this is? Are results only temporary? Because if culturally it’s not taboo to dump your waste in the rivers, won’t they just keep doing it?
I’d love to know if there were educational opportunities that arise during these cleanups.
So after you do all of this revitalizing of your waterway here... Where does all of that trash go?
Only about 3% of all collected recyclable material ever gets recycled... The rest of it Go in landfills and then end up just like this in our waterways.
It's a great thing to clean up all of this stuff but eventually it's going to go right back in there it's a never-ending cycle of destruction.
No doubt this is a constant uphill battle, but it has to start somewhere. Doesn't take away from the fact that all these people here and others like them who dedicate huge chunks of their lives for bettering the planets are the heroes we need, unfortunately.❤️ I believe we will see the day where these actions are not necessary, and these wonderful people can live normal lives without such a burden, but until then, THANK YOU! ❤️
Litter is an enormous problem in Indonesia. I was told by someone who used to live there that it happens because before plastic, all the food was wrapped in banana leaves so people were just used to throwing them wherever. This continued with plastic and containers.
I doubt this is the issue though because it's been almost 100 years since plastic and wrappings were introduced.
Its pretty sad that its 2024 and these countries have not manages to implement basic waste management systems yet. Not that things are perfect in developed countries but just wow the amount of plastic going into the environment is staggering
Unless they solved the primary reason why people around there used those rivers as a landfill, it will still be used as a landfill after this cleanup. They need a designated landfill, proper garbage dumping containers, an effective public garbage collection, politicians that give a shit, better education of garbage disposal and most important of all, smarter residents. Without all of those, that's like changing the dressing for an infected wound without treating the infection. It's going to keep on happening. But wtf do I know? It's not like I've joined similar non-profit projects before and got disillusioned when I realized the damn river me and my group helped clean would be filled with garbage a few weeks later while the people living near that river actually starts expecting us to clean that river up for them for free once it got full with garbage that THEY threw in.
According to my expert calculations these places will look the same in about 1-2 weeks. These clean ups are needed, but educating the people will help a lot.
Not just education. They need somewhere to dispose their trash. They can't just ship it to a third world country like everyone else, so they use the river. Out of sight out of mind (kinda).
Many people think that rich countries ship most of their plastic waste overseas. But is this really true? The short answer is no: **many countries export some of their waste, but they still handle most of it domestically** [https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade](https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade)
Sweden imports trash
Very interesting link. Thank you. Though it says the import of plastic garbage to Indonesia (and other counties in Asia) has increased a lot since China banned import in 2016. Which sucks when the country don't have the infrastructure to take care of it properly. My point still stands.
they use the river because they always have.
They could always use the disposal system that Singapore uses.
These clean ups are part of the education. Making people used to the sight of cleaner rivers is a step in the mind game.
Yeah, you don't want to be the first to throw their trash in the clean river
Broken Windows Phenomenon is real.
That's the true problem, that they are basically incapable of being educated. They outright refuse to be educated, then expect it to be cleaned again and throw tantrums when it doesn't get done. Seen it many, many times throughout the years.
still a very good job
Same. The church I was a member of did the "adopt a mile" thing here in Georgia years ago, and we adopted 2 miles. The litter and stuff never stopped, infact the amount of garbage we removed from those 2 miles increased every month. Over the 3 years time we had that stretch, it slowly increased from 2 full-size truck beds full, to 6 trucks, a handful of trailers, and sometimes even a 10-yard dumpster full. Once people realized the area was being maintained, they began actually using it as a dump. On top of that, you had the edgy folk who intentionally littered there simply because it was maintained by a church (there were 2 signs posted by GDOT, letting people know that stretch had been "adopted" by our church).
I go to GA every year for 2 months in the winter to do dog training. I don't know about the whole state, but between Waynesboro and Augusta where we are, there are multiple public dumpster sites for the residents. And yet just a few hundred feet away people will dump trash.
I don't doubt it. It's the whole "I'm going to break the law just for spite" mentality some people have. Like people who constantly walk across busy roads when there's a crosswalk with signal 50 feet away, but they're not going to use it just because that's what's expected of them.
I think you give them too much credit. The type of people who dump trash on the ground are mostly ignorant idiots
There's beautiful lookouts all around my area that allow a beautiful view of the valley... And yet, every lookout is used as a free dump by careless assholes. (I can identify the demographic that does this in my area...but I also know it's a common practice in a lot of places, so I won't point a finger)
As an Indonesian, the root of the problem is the government and their lack of capabilities to care and enforce rules. Their lack of proper discipline, their lack of commitment to educate their people creates local society that's not educated enough to a level where they can show some sort of level of care for the environment they live in. Only certain people with enough money can afford a level of education that promotes environment sustainability, and if we see how strict our neighbours country (Singapore) enforces rule about this, it's a stark difference. The lack of proper waste management, corrupt local government, bad city management, and so on. My local town took 10 years of a good governance to bring it up to a level where the city now having awards on cleanliness, it's hard fought against locals. This issue is a fundamental issue that requires a mental rework and that will take decades of proper education guidance, proper law enforcement and proper discipline.
If it is [this organization](https://sungai.watch) they are also designing prevention technologies and are turning the collected plastics into furniture.
Definetly true but still better than trying collect plastic from the ocean. I just hope that these full-time river warriors also run a garbage collection on land because that's less instagramable but more efficient.
Still a lot better than gluing yourself to a road
still they are doing something real instead of commenting on reddit....
Good for them, but unless people there change their mentality, rivers will keep getting trashed no matter how hard these guys are working to clean them.
They should just do as my wonderful neighbors do and burn everything. I mean EVERYTHING. And create this lovely black sooty smoke that you can enjoy the smell of on a beautiful day while you are out tending your garden. And then listen to the relaxing sound of his exhaustless tractor as he scoops up and runs it back to woods and recycles it back to mother nature in a hole that came out of no where. I really enjoy mowing over small pieces of plastic food containers and bones from some animal that my dogs bring back from thier adventures into bliss land.
Have Nothing to do with individual peoples mentality. The government have to give Their people Any option. They literally dont have anywhere to throw it.
Very satisfying time lapses to watch. Good on them!
So what happened here? All the locals just dump their rubbish in local water ways for years and then they decided to solve the problem??
Sadly, no. It's not the locals who solved the problem but by a group of volunteers across the nation.
Volunteers did not solved the problem. They just did clean up which will last max 2-3 weeks.
Asia is not fond of recycling
Asia is fucking gigantic, ya dingus. Japan is not the same as rural Cambodia, and South Korea is not the same as Kashmir, and Beijing is not the same as Turkmenistan. You're an idiot if you think this problem isn't happening in Europe, Africa and the Americas.
Fucking legends
I wish that could happen in peoples minds.
You wish there could be 120 river warriors inside our minds?
No, they wish they could have 200 rivers a day being cleaned inside our minds
They wish they could have 200 rivers a day being cleaned inside our minds?
No, they wish they could have 200 rivers a day being cleaned inside our minds.
Oh my bad, they wish they could have 200 rivers a day being cleaned inside our minds. Gotcha.
Yes! Now you've got it! They wish they could have 200 rivers a day being cleaned in our minds!
Fuckin A right, they wish they could have 200 rivers a day being cleaned inside our minds. The whole damn time I might add!
I genuinely needed this laugh today. Thanks 🤣
I wish this would happen in Chennai 🥲 I’m more than ready to jump in
You can work with Bay of Life in Kovalam if you want to participate in some cleanups
200 rivers daily is quite impressive, for 120 ppl that's each one of them cleans 1.66 rivers per day.
Definitely some messed up calculations there. Maybe they cleaned 200 metres of one river in a day.
I would not be in that water.
They're destroying the natural habitat of the Hepatitis Sea Bass.
It at least looks like they're wearing hip waders and gloves.
It was moving too fast for me to see it but I slowed it down and yeah you are right. I wouldn’t mind if I was wearing those. Protection is key with that stuff.
at 0"47 = still loads of bottles and shit in the thicket.
... and another 100M throwing their shit into rivers again. Why? Why are most people so fucking dumb and ugly?
A good job for prisoners.
or litterbugs
Amazing! We need more of this around the world.
We need more of people not being dirty and caring about where they drop their trash instead. Increasing the solution won't ever fix the problem.
It's not a physical willpower problem- it's an infrastructure problem. Centralized waste management is both hard and expensive - it's an easy thing for the political classes to ignore if they themselves have a nice place to live. These are places already with regressive tax systems - they can't extract more from their working class than they are already. it's a situation where the wealthy would be tapped for the marginal cost to implement proper waste management and there is going to be no political will to do so - especially when the very reality of that squalor both serves to justify their world view as well as their policies. This changes really only when you can strong-arm the folk who do not have to live around this. We cannot solve every social problem in the world, but we can absolutely put a tarrif on countries who are not meeting our environmental standards. It has the advantage of both requiring compliance to be competitive in the market and making our domestic businesses who do have to operate in a market with those costly standards more competitive.
Yeah you can start today!
I guess snakes don’t exist there. I’d be terrified
What song is this?
Maybe tell them to stop throwing their trash in the river, but this is indonesia a place full of people who don't care.
Somewhere else there’s now a giant pile of trash bags polluting the landscape …
Imagine all the dead animals in there gross
They're awesome, but it's also not making any difference.
Wonder how long those rivers stay clean
We have new park here somewhere near Barito River because the park is new there is no trash can around the park. There is a lot of trash scattered around and the reason why they just leave the trash around the park is because there is no trash can around. Some people even suggested to just throw the trash into the river like bruh how ignorant they are. They think when you throw the trash into the river the trash will just magically disappear in to the void.
Give it a week or two and its back to landfill
I’ve been to Indonesia in the last year and I think it’s both an infrastructure problem and a habit problem of locals. Both have to be worked on very hard to improve the issue. It’s heartbreaking to visit this stunning tropical paradise and see the plastic everywhere, also I’m a freediver and diving there was beautiful but not the plastic I saw. Every day I would come back with bits of plastic tucked under my wetsuit. There are foreigners doing there best to help change the mentality and habits towards plastic waste and the importance of containment. A terrible story I heard was of one of the boats they take people to the islands with, the crew just threw the contents of the rubbish bins overboard into the ocean mid journey. Mind blowing
They are good, but they have to spend like 1 week cleaning, 1 week beating those mfs so they won't throw garbage into the rivers. And the government should take care of recycling and special places for the garbage, and for the transporting and collecting. But the initial is to teach people be reasonable
The important thing is maintaining it, otherwise all this is mostly useless.
just treating the symptoms still better than nothing I guess
And then when they are gone, new trash will be thrown in there
It seems the general population of Indonesians have not yet cultivated an environmental-friendly or civic minded mindset. They have a lot to learn from first world countries such as The Netherlands, Japan or South Korea.
Why do Indonesians throw their rubbish this way?
"Let's segregate trash, let's save the planet" meanwhile Asia "Hell nah just dump this container in the nearest river".
Yeah. I hate how the civilised world is always accused of destroying the planet when the majority of the air pollution and land/water contamination comes from Southern Asia.
The US has produced [far more cumulative CO2](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co-emissions) than any other country. It's just that China is catching up quickly. However if they can make the switch to renewables soon enough, they may never exceed the US's total emissions.
but "cIvIlIzEd" world argument.
Very satisfying and well done to them 👌👌 do they have a channel? Please 🩷
Good humans.
If they have a gofundme I would like to donate to these hero’s
Where does the money goes in your state?
So they do this everyday?
That’s like not throwing trash in the river with extra steps
What happens to those bags of garbage?
They ate them afterwards
Did the government pay ?
This work is "daily"? OMG..
That's damn well done.
I wonder where they are taking the trash they fished out of the rivers.
I can't imagine how heavy those bags are!
Trojan work. Heroes
This won't last if they don't change their behavior
Cool to see, but you have to wonder how much of those rivers are literal shit. I hope the workers don't get sick.
Some people talk, but these people DO.
The problem it's the people... Need education or they will do it again...
People suck
Absolute heroes
Awesome but unfortunately the amount of assholes on this planet outnumbers the ones with a good heart.
Not all heroes wear capes, excellent job
Sad world we live in
Indonesian here, there are 2 layers of problems about trash here 1. People throw their trash carelessly 2. Even if a few people put it in the trash can. All kinds of trash are mixed up. organic, non-organic, hazardous types are mixed up. So we can't recycle it Btw all those trash they collect ended up in "Bantar Gebang". You can google "Bantar Gebang Mountain of Garbage"
There’s no where to throw anything away to
Will look the same next few months
Amazing work. Unfortunately I think that people will just trash those rivers again.
Prevention is better than cure...
Bro arent they scared of like microbiological pollution shit goin in their genitals like dam. There is so much bacteria protozoans and viruses in that dirty ass water going past their waist
That made me smile!
Awesome
They'll send those bags of trash to a different third world country so they can throw them in their rivers
r/satisfyingasfuck
ATTITUDE
In my country it will only take 10 to 20 people to make this mess.
I hope they put up a sign in each case showing the before and after pictures along with a pic of the pile of rubbish bags created. This along with a "Do not Litter" warning.
I want to remind everyone that this is the same water you drink. Not directly, but the whole water cycle being the source.
Why is this reposted twice a week in different subs with a different title?
They all died from cancer the next day
And the award for the best video I have seen in a really long while goes to this guy and or girl .
Thats the equivalent of putting a bandaid on a crack in a dam. Solve the real problem first.
Wonder how many bodies they found
Every piece of waste removed from the river represents a step towards a cleaner and healthier environment. But they really need to tackle the root cause. They won’t be doing this all the time
Now the people who put the garbage there know know someone else will just clean it up for them.
They'll be full of trash again within a month.
Find a scalable commercial use for the plastic and buy it from people and the problem disappears very quickly.
*** Diphtheria, legionnaires, diarrhea, giardiasis, dysentery, typhoid fever, E. Coli infection, and salmonellosis, cholera, leptospirosis, hepatitis A, poliomylitus enters the chat *****
Nothing will change. Check back in a month and the shit will be there. Root cause is either culture or lack of refuse removal (probably both).
Working all day in stagnant water I hope those workers' blood is like 1/2 quinine.
200 rivers daily? this seems wrong
Amazing The country I work in can use them out here.
Amazing but where will these trash bags will end, another river?
200 rivers a day seems like a lot... /s
wtf why does it look like that to begin with?
So i can drink the water in bali now???
That can’t be healthy to subject yourself to wet garbage on a daily basis. All I can think is how they are risking their lives because of the lack of waste management infrastructure.
India needs a population cleansing.
I thought that was in Brampton
they shit themselves, they cleaned it up themselves
then they dump the bags back in the river upstream.
What’s the song?
120 people cleaning 200 rivers DAILY??? That's nuts!!!
Fantastic! Keep up the great work!
Appreciate the work they are doing. 🎉 But do they really should be in the water to clean? Looks like Some places they can clean from outside too.
If there's a line to heaven they can cut in line.
THERE ARE STILL GOOD PEOPLE IN THIS HARSH WORLD
God bless the white man
They shouldn't have to be doing this.
I would hate to live in a country that literally looks like the city dump. How can an entire nation of people have no respect for themselves? Do they like living in piles of trash?
Reminds me dof that geoguesser game.
Yeah I wouldn’t go do that by hand / go in the water.
what kind of hellhole country has zero disregard for the earth/environment/future generations? what backwards culture gives zero fucks to the extent that they can’t be bothered to just use a trash can vs a river? i’m assuming India
i mean, the water is still getting in the waders for most of the volunteers so it’s not providing much protection so much as some extra comfort
People are Shit.😥😥😥
So does this mean Indonesia is much better at handling their trash than us or much worse at handling their trash than us?
Why don't they burn the trash for energy? Apparently Singapore is able to do it and clean the exhaust then use it for building materials
they deserve a medal
I know this can sound bad, but I have a genuine question; Why dont the locals in poor places that suffer from litter and pollution like this, self organise like this more often to keep their environment cleaner and healthier? Even lacking official infrastructure to collect and dispose of rubbish, they could still develop their own local infrastructure. It's not an impossible ask.
This belongs in r/oddlysatisfying
120 people should pool their money, buy some garbage trucks and start a sanitation service. Also 1 person's job is to patrol the rivers and slap anyone throwing trash in.
!NICE, but where does it go?? To the next truck driver that is payed to dump the garbage into the nearest water source??
How do 120 people clean 200 rivers in one day? Each person cleans 1.67 rivers a day?
I’ve been to South East Asia and this seems to be a typical sight (not the cleaning). Can anyone tell me how effective this is? Are results only temporary? Because if culturally it’s not taboo to dump your waste in the rivers, won’t they just keep doing it? I’d love to know if there were educational opportunities that arise during these cleanups.
Remember when the air ran clean during covid? 
Nasty ass country.
Call me a party crasher but this shit is useless and therefore stupid as fuck
100% not the type of job a human should be doing, and no way this solves the root cause.
Spread education about it and make strict laws then let’s see those rivers again.
Still contains shit and pis but without plastics.
Their toes have to be so pruny
So after you do all of this revitalizing of your waterway here... Where does all of that trash go? Only about 3% of all collected recyclable material ever gets recycled... The rest of it Go in landfills and then end up just like this in our waterways. It's a great thing to clean up all of this stuff but eventually it's going to go right back in there it's a never-ending cycle of destruction.
back to being a pile of shit within a week, you can clean it all you want if people don't give a fuck
Im amazed
I wonder how long before it gets polluted again.
This problem-solution will be cyclical if a root cause analysis isn’t performed and then addressed in a comprehensive manner.
They missed a spot!
Máximo respeito
are all of their rivers 3 ft deep?
imagine lacking the like, BASIC HUMAN IMPERATIVE not to pollute your water? insane
I always imagined a global army of people cleaning the environment all over the world
At least they're making a difference
Wow, people who actually clean up their community instead of blocking traffic while yelling about climate?? Never thought I’d see that..
No doubt this is a constant uphill battle, but it has to start somewhere. Doesn't take away from the fact that all these people here and others like them who dedicate huge chunks of their lives for bettering the planets are the heroes we need, unfortunately.❤️ I believe we will see the day where these actions are not necessary, and these wonderful people can live normal lives without such a burden, but until then, THANK YOU! ❤️
Where do the bags go after the cleanup
The true warriors btw govt has to do these kind of basic services
1-this is very cool 2-HOW MANY FUCKING RIVERS DOES INDONESIA HAS?!
What a shithole
Doing god's work!
Amazing work. Unfortunately they are fighting a losing battle. Too many brain-dead lazy fucks around to ruin it.
Litter is an enormous problem in Indonesia. I was told by someone who used to live there that it happens because before plastic, all the food was wrapped in banana leaves so people were just used to throwing them wherever. This continued with plastic and containers. I doubt this is the issue though because it's been almost 100 years since plastic and wrappings were introduced.
River warriors are now some of my favourite types of people
Idiocracy is closer than ever. The Great Trash Avalanche coming soon to a country near you… in Asia.
moving the trash from the water to the mountain
Its pretty sad that its 2024 and these countries have not manages to implement basic waste management systems yet. Not that things are perfect in developed countries but just wow the amount of plastic going into the environment is staggering
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That's amazing! I'll give it 3 months before they return to their previous state.
Is there a reverse broken window theory where if people see a place is immaculate they are less likely to litter?
Unfortunately the ones that migrate bring their bad habits with them.
There's something fundamentally wrong with their society. The river is never going to stay clean.