Around 600 volunteers, including locals, hotel staff, and foreign tourists, joined on beaches to clean up plastic waste washed ashore by monsoon rains.

Indonesia is one of the world’s biggest contributors to plastic pollution and marine debris.

Monsoon rains are an annual event, and the rainfalls’ intensity sweeps mountains of plastic waste from cities and rivers into the ocean in this archipelago.

Sungai Watch founder Gary Bencheghib announced that plastic cups, cutlery, straws, and empty coffee sachets were collected by hand from the sand.

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