Bali's popular western-facing beaches have been less alluring lately, with a mass of plastic debris and other rubbish spoiling the landscape.
With a bucket in hand, Wayan Wetra collects rubbish and tree branches strewn across the sand near the stall where he sells drinks and snacks at Kuta Beach.
“In the past, I’ve been surfing at Canggu and that’s been polluted and dirty,” says Nicholas Magro, a 28-year-old visitor from Sydney. “You’re sitting around and you’re grabbing handfuls of plastic, it’s a bit uncomfortable and it takes away the beauty. It’s very unfortunate.”Indonesia is the world’s second-largest plastic polluter, trailing only China, generating 1.29 million tonnes of waste that winds up in the sea every year, according to the United Nations.
Single-use plastic bags were also banned in markets in 2020 and in another attempt to decrease the amount of rubbish floating at sea, the Indonesian government last year started paying fishermen to pick it out of the ocean.
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