Padang Beach in the city of Padang, West Sumatra, has become a sea of ​​​​garbage after heavy rains flushed the city last Monday night. At least it takes more than 10 days to clean up trash along the Padang coast.

Officers from the environmental service for the city of Padang, West Sumatra, are cleaning up garbage that has accumulated around the edge of the Padang beach for 500 meters. Cleaning is carried out using an excavator unit.

It takes at least 10 days to clean up the trash. The trash on Padang Beach is dominated by household waste that was brought from upstream to the sea after the heavy rains that hit the city on Monday night.

Saad - head of waste management and cleaning the environmental service for the city of Padang

"this is actually an accumulation of rubbish that is already on the seabed, then garbage that is washed away by floodwaters during the rainy season and then carried by waves to the shore and accumulates in this area. most of the material is dead wood, then there are rags that have been sunk for a long time and then carried back to the beach. as well as some plastic and rubber like used tires or something, it's just a lot of trash".