This tourist hotspot in Kota Padang city, West Sumatra, Indonesia, is being overwhelmed with tonnes of plastic garbage.

Shocking footage from Tuesday (January 12) the devastating level of plastic rubbish strewn across the overwhelmed beach.

Puti Jingga, the filmer, told Newsflare: "This is waste travelling from the Batang Arau River that has overflown due to frequent rain. It's proof of a lack of community awareness not to throw waste in the river."

Hijrah Saputra, a local beach cleaning officer, said: "Every day it rains, the condition of the Padang coast becomes like this. The reason is people's bad habit of throwing waste into the Batang Arau River, which empties here.

"If there is no further rain, the fastest cleaning process can be completed in three days."

To speed up the cleaning process, Saputra hopes to get tools from the local government and that the community will better manage their household waste.

In April 2020, the Indonesian government launched a plan to cut ocean plastic waste by 70 percent in 2025 and be plastic pollution-free by 2040.

Refrigerating with black sea water, padang beach west sumatera province, indonesia is fulfilled with waste, post rain that hands padang city, since monday night this household. Is waste traveling from the upper river that increased due to frequent rains. The existence of this waste is real proof still low community awareness not to throw out of river.

This mounting of waste packaging is still cannot completely clean up. As well as a tourist visit because of this package of waste, part of the community around to use it by collecting waste garbage, which take gas over.

SOT : HIJRAH SAPUTRA – BEACH CLEANING OFFICER
(Indeed, every day it rains, floods, the condition of the Padang coast becomes like this. The reason is that the people's bad habit of throwing away at the river flows. Incidentally, from the flow of the Batang Harau river it empties here. This, if there is no further rain, the fastest cleaning process can be completed in three days. There is a tractor from the municipal government, there are mutual cooperation activities, like yesterday there was a mutual cooperation activity from the nav)

To speed up the cleaning process, hijrah hope there is heavy tools help. Respect to things that have been repeated , hijrah hope the community can be more more arifive in managing household waste. waste wastered hope.