Children are seen playing in a tide of plastic waste washing up on a beach in Padang on January 29.

Tons of rubbish was been washed onto the beach after being pushed upstream due to flooding in the cities canals and rivers.

Adek, one of the children, told Newsflare's filmer that he collects aluminium cans from the beach and sells them to recyclers.

a number of children in the city of Padang look happy when fighting and fighting against the waves in order to get cans of alumanium to be resold when thousands of tons of garbage covered the desert beach January 29, 2019.

hundreds of tons of rubbish comes from the push of the waves on the Padang beach, the rubbish comes from upstream of the river flooding the canal which empties into the Padang beach when heavy rains flush the city of Padang on the night of January 28, 2019.

adek, one of the children who collects used goods said "he only collects tin cans of alumanium, which is quite expensive to be recycled by collectors of used goods"

the children in the video are children who live in the coastal area of ​​muaro lasak not street children.

these children still have parents, but they often take advantage of the moment the pile of garbage that mounts every time the coast after heavy rains hit the city of Padang.