It’s absolutely heartbreaking to stroll down Bali’s beautiful beaches and see trash—much of it non-biodegradable plastic—strewn across the shore.
While the trash appears every year with the rains and floods and is a regular sight for most of us, thankfully some of Bali’s younger activists have not resigned let this be the status quo—regardless of how daunting an issue it is.
The Green School student-founded group Bye Bye Plastic Bags (BBPB) is setting in motion the largest beach clean up in the island’s history.
“We are creating the biggest clean up Bali has ever seen. So in one single day, we’re going to call all NGOs, all communities, schools, students, youth, to clean up the entire coastline of Bali,” one of BBPB’s founding sisters, Isabel Wijsen, says in a video shared by Green School.
BBPB will be working with other Bali NGOs for the massive clean up and is calling it ‘One Island, One Voice,” according to Wijsen.
Set for Sunday, Feb. 19, the crew has more than 20 places along Bali’s coast ready for cleaning, @OneIslandOneVoice posted to Instagram two days ago.
BBPB was started in 2013 by Green School students and sisters, Isabel and Melati Wijsen, as a campaign to rid Bali of plastic bags. The sisters and their organization have impressively managed to convince the island’s governor to commit to plastic bag-free Bali by 2018.
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