A walk along a KALTIM beach

[BPNBound]

I was up early and decided to walk along the beach as our complex is adjacent the beach here in B-town..and yeah it all looks kinda nice

but if I turn the camera around

 

[harryopal1]

So where is Kaltim Beach? Couldn't find it with a google search.

 

[jstar]

They like to abbreviatie here. (JakUt, SumSel, JaTim). And every time you see 'tim' as extension it means Timur. So east Kalimantan.

 

[harryopal1]

Struth and stone the crows. It's one thing trying to learn Bahasa Kebangsaan but abbreviations? I have just found links to both official and colloquial abbreviations. How to remember them all? I guess ... perlahan lahan
Thanks for the reply.

 

[Puspawarna]

Yep, I was expecting photo #2 when I opened this thread. The first beautiful thread gave me hope for a moment, but alas.

There are beaches in northwest Bali that look just like that. Tragic.

 

[dafluff]

I was up early and decided to walk along the beach as our complex is adjacent the beach here in B-town..and yeah it all looks kinda nice

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but if I turn the camera around

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Too bad I can't both like and dislike a post...so I rated it a "thanks" instead. Such a shame. Many beaches here in Bali look like that from time to time.

If it gets attention, a clean up crew shows up (sometimes civil servants as part of their Friday morning exercises), but no one really addresses the root of the problem.

 

[jstar]

There have been quite some initiatives....

Cleanup initiatives - no more plastic

. Indonesia is responsible for 10% of the worlds' plastic pollution in the Pacific, that is staggering for a population of 'only' 250 million, right? Luckily more and more initiatives are taken. Although the whole 'pay for the plastic bag' is NOT implemented by many supermarkets! (Name and...

www.expatindo.org

 

[dafluff]

There have been quite some initiatives....

Cleanup initiatives - no more plastic

. Indonesia is responsible for 10% of the worlds' plastic pollution in the Pacific, that is staggering for a population of 'only' 250 million, right? Luckily more and more initiatives are taken. Although the whole 'pay for the plastic bag' is NOT implemented by many supermarkets! (Name and...

www.expatindo.org

Sure, but still a long way to go. The plastic bag ban is great, but so far afaik only applicable to Bali. They need to target all those plastic glasses and bottles next...

 

[jstar]

Many still truly believe that by throwing away plastic on the street they help the less well-off in society.

Now there are some educational tv spots that address pollution, reducing the use of plastics, recycling etc. but these air mainly on (digital) international channels so they don't reach the masses.

 

[harryopal1]

It would be great if the petroleum industries were to step up and assume some responsibilities for waste collection and disposal given that they produce the plastics. I guess governments aren't game to take on the petroleum industries and the way things generally work, any costs incurred in clean up would just pass back to increases on fuel at the pump so we still pay anyway one way or the other.

Perhaps the only hope is very big and very cheap rockets fuelled by waste that are then just pointed to somewhere out there in the skies. Take a bit longer to fill up the universe with all our trash. But then given the inevitable rocket failures just a matter of time before malfunction and tilts back to earth. Please, God don't let the rocket fall on Bali..... how about New York?
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[waarmstrong]

Better Bali where a little additional trash would hardly be noticed.

 

[BPNBound]

or another villain.

 

[jstar]

Hmm. Blaming the manufacturers to get rid of our consumer guilt trip is somewhat simplistic in that video clip.

What about the governments then? It's quite easy for them to oblige the implementation of a deposit and return policy and system for bottles, jars, etc. (As many countries have in place.) And no symbolic but real heavy fines for littering.

 

[Saudade]

The dirtiest beach I have ever seen in my life it was already probably 10 years ago in Labuanbajo, I couldn't believe my eyes, so hard to believe there was so much rubbish around the beach and even some families were around playing.
To me part of the reason of this as well, is the grade of consumerism, I live in Bali, I "hate"to see sooooo many many small supermarkets around all the island, indomaret, infomaret, coco market, pepito, delta everywhere every two steps.............the most of the things in these kind of supermarkets are already "rubbish", I mean, no something really important for people or their diets and wrapped in plastic or things the most people trough away in any place. No need of so many little supermarkets, only open for people to consume and spend their money without thinking too much.

 

[jstar]

Yeah, the first thing you see when somebody comes out of the mini market who just bought a pack of cigarettes...

Now more than 1/3rd of the 8 tonnes plastic in the sea is from China. But Indonesia comes in second with a share of 1/5th.

 

[Hunabku]

Same problems almost everywhere.

This could be one of good solution;