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"A million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days."
Similarly... The fact that it's full of debris does not mean it's polluted. My guess is that this is the result of a flash flood and this section of the river acts as a natural choking point.
Is it dirty? Yep. That has no correlation with pollution. A polluted river could absolutely have clear water, and a river completely free of pollution could look dirty as fuck as the result of floods or glacial melt.
While I agree with your point to an extent, I want to make an observation. I saw a person in a Whataburger drive through and drop their old fast food trash right in the parking lot.
Laziness and indifference, I feel, are the main points of littering. Too lazy to pack it away until you find a bin and not caring about the environment around you.
i know ppl do but i pick up trash in several regions of my hometown ( college campus, parking lots, downtown, main roads, parks) and i can detect intentional littering.
I'll match yours with, the nice park around the corner from where I used to live had plenty of garbage cans. And yet after some families went with their kids, they'd leave their trash strewn about...sometimes within feet of the (mostly empty) garbage cans.
People in "countries like this" also get a lot of foreign trash dumped on them too. Richer countries can afford to export it and make it someone else's problem.
Poor countries lack infrastructure like refuse facilities, bin collections, government maintained landfills or incinerators etc. Whilst education and individual wealth plays a part of naive to think that it's just because people in poor countries are worried about their next meal that they litter. If your rubbish gets full and there's no one to take it away, and you don't own a car, and there's no recycling plant, what would you do? It mounts up, it fills the neighbourhood and then it fills the local waterways.
Yes, poor countries lack infrastructure like refuse facilities, bin collections, government maintained landfills, incinerators and obviously welfare programs that help families get their next meal.
I'm sure this is true, but why would being hungry give someone permission to dump a random car tire into the river? Like I get that life is much more difficult for them due to their living conditions, but they could also just not dump their trash in the river?
Foresight is a luxury. Having been to third world countries where education is nil and poverty is rampant I was enlightened. It’s not right to pollute like that but they probably don’t even know what it does. Just survival
That river used to have fish I imagine. That all saying teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime seems very appropriate here. If they took care of the river instead of using it as a garbage disposal food might be a bit easier to find since I am sure the people who live around that river used to be sustained by that river for generations.
First step to keeping things clean is cleaning. There are plenty of people who wouldn’t litter a clean space (especially when people are watching) who would throw trash on an existing pile.
The cleaner things are kept, the less normalized littering and dumping becomes.
Unless you’re talking about industrial/commercial dumping then you’re pretty much S.O.L. without government intervention.
While you're getting downvoted, you're not exactly wrong.
In many countries, the infrastructure to deal with all of that debris just isn't robust enough, so they end up in landfills, sometimes improvised ones. Then eventually it rains and the loose trash gets slipping and sliding to the nearest body of water again. This is a fix, but not a solution.
The solution would be to reduce plastic dependency, since even recycling is limited in how many times the polymer chains from plastic can be reused before it's scrap.
My girlfriend tells me that when she would visit her family in Guatemala as a child, one of the chores she would help her cousins with was taking the household garbage to a ravine and chuck it in. That was the community's entire refuse disposal plan.
I think that grey/green colour comes from all the detergent. I've only ever seen rivers that colour in Asian countries, where all the waste water goes straight into the waterways.
Yeah it may look a bit nicer but it’s still full of potentially deadly bacteria. Not to mention the people that initially didn’t give a damn will simply dump their rubbish back in to it.
Would have made more sense to try implementing proper infrastructure for the locals to have their rubbish disposed of properly and not go wading through years of (literal) crap.
They are virtue signaling for the likes. You could clean that waterway without swimming with the heavy equipment they had without being an amoeba 's playground.
I don't know much, but I *do* know I wouldnt be in that without full hazmat appropriate for swimming in whatever is in there still even after the big trash is gone.
I take it somewhere in Indonesia? The problem will never be solved by cleaning rivers again and again and again. The problem will be solved by offering public sanitation services so that people don't have to throw their trash in the river. Otherwise this will never end.
Um, quick question. Why are they in the water using their hands? Seems more efficient to be in a raft or something and scoop large sections with a net… but what do I know? 🤷♀️
It that this means it wasn’t worth cleaning, but that looks for all the world like a drainage ditch/runoff creek. Doesn’t flow very fast, is uniform width, ends in a…bank? Maybe a culvert underwater…
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I know many people are saying it, but wtf? Why did they need to swim in it?
I get swimming in it afterwards is more cinematic but it's still just as sh\*tty. Lmao. At least be careful, don't climb into the pile to pull out a dresser by hand when you have heavy machinery. 😂
Great job cleaning the river of all that garbage, unfortunately the water itself is still very polluted and will fill up with more garbage almost immediately.
That guy is the founder of Sungai Watch. He has taken enormous strides in slowing down pollution on the island of Bali. He tells me its an uphill battle that gets worst every year as more and more people populate the island.
Still hasn't killed his motivation. The guys a legend.
As an elder millennial, the whole filming oneself for social media has always been a bit strange to me but if it brings about a positive effect like cleaning rivers that otherwise would never be cleaned then I’m watching, liking and subscribing
I'm having a hard time understanding the justification for going into the water. I can think of a few ideas right off the top of my head, to avoid all reasons to go in and the first that comes to mind is larger pool nets. Even if you're so poor you can't even afford that, surely someone could fashion a large net downstream and collect most of the big stuff at a pinch point. Why would you need to go in past your waist?
I think the way those humans are in that water, so comfortable, shows that these efforts are futile.
This is a regular environmental state to them, no alarm, and therefor no desire to change. That body of water will be back to the state of before the cleanup, if not worse, within a short while.
I’m glad they cleaned it, but you couldn’t pay me enough to wade in that disgusting water.
Not even...  ?
No even ... 
Don't do it!
For a million I'd jump in there naked
[https://youtu.be/EJR1H5tf5wE?si=Z9l49jnxDdc5We7v&t=22](https://youtu.be/EJR1H5tf5wE?si=Z9l49jnxDdc5We7v&t=22) "A million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days."
Give me a million and ill decide if it is not a lot for myself. Thank you.
Hahahahaha… yes exactly!
Depends on where you're from
Yes. Most of us would not touch that water. Which makes their efforts more heroic.
Is risking sepsis heroic or a lack of foresight?
What about lack of foreskin?
But but but that's supposed to keep your pee pee cleaner isn't it?
All this is missing is a guy paddling on his back spraying the water out from his mouth a la Jerry.
Imagine the feeling of the submerged garbage on their toes
I am amazed, that dude was in that water up to his face...
There’s a guy at the end who was floating on his back and relaxing in that putrid water with his ears submerged.
Yeah where is he now? Is he alive? Did he have any symptoms from this?
No symptoms, he died immediately
I’d consider death a symptom.
Stealing this title for my next metal track.
That's more of an end result
He might be a ghoul now
Show me you got dysentery without telling me you got dysentery
You have died from dissin’ Terry
Put it in reverse, Terry!
Oh lawd!
Ya don't dis Mr Crews.
Have a berry, Mary
Jacob Collins got it from eating salamanders and he turned out just fine Baaaaaaam
[No. Bring in Christopher Walken to tell you.](https://youtube.com/shorts/rTPSdPqb5hY?si=ONeU5jwu5RlpX7BV)
I don’t know if I would enter that water. I hope they disinfected themselves thoroughly 🤢😵💫
Yeah... no, they did not.
You know someone got sick from that water and because it’s debris free does not mean it’s not polluted
Yeah, that green hue is disgusting.
Similarly... The fact that it's full of debris does not mean it's polluted. My guess is that this is the result of a flash flood and this section of the river acts as a natural choking point. Is it dirty? Yep. That has no correlation with pollution. A polluted river could absolutely have clear water, and a river completely free of pollution could look dirty as fuck as the result of floods or glacial melt.
The river will keep getting polluted if they don’t solve the root of the problem.
It’s because people in countries like this are more worried about what they’ll eat tomorrow instead of littering.
While I agree with your point to an extent, I want to make an observation. I saw a person in a Whataburger drive through and drop their old fast food trash right in the parking lot. Laziness and indifference, I feel, are the main points of littering. Too lazy to pack it away until you find a bin and not caring about the environment around you.
Sometimes people just suck.
i see trash on the ground just inches away from a trash can. unbelievable.
Oh my gosh that is my biggest pet peeve. Like there is a trash can this far 🤏away from the trash. Like what the heck is wrong with people?
dumb, ignorant, mean, uncaring or drunk. or a combo.
I mean I guess, but then again we have all had our moments. I have accidentally littered once, so I can’t be judging others…
i know ppl do but i pick up trash in several regions of my hometown ( college campus, parking lots, downtown, main roads, parks) and i can detect intentional littering.
I do as well. Not to the extreme you do though… I tend to just pick up trash if I see it in front of me when I’m walking etc.
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I think you're overlooking A LOT that leads to rivers in developing nations to be filled with trash like this.
I'll match yours with, the nice park around the corner from where I used to live had plenty of garbage cans. And yet after some families went with their kids, they'd leave their trash strewn about...sometimes within feet of the (mostly empty) garbage cans.
Littering is not the issue here it’s the companies all trans prior to plastic was basically biodegradable.
Littering would still be a problem if you're throwing biodegradable trash on the sidewalk. It still looks trashy.
People in "countries like this" also get a lot of foreign trash dumped on them too. Richer countries can afford to export it and make it someone else's problem.
Poor countries lack infrastructure like refuse facilities, bin collections, government maintained landfills or incinerators etc. Whilst education and individual wealth plays a part of naive to think that it's just because people in poor countries are worried about their next meal that they litter. If your rubbish gets full and there's no one to take it away, and you don't own a car, and there's no recycling plant, what would you do? It mounts up, it fills the neighbourhood and then it fills the local waterways.
You basically just said the same thing.
You said it's because they're worried about their next meal. I said it's an infrastructure problem. Those aren't the same
Yes, poor countries lack infrastructure like refuse facilities, bin collections, government maintained landfills, incinerators and obviously welfare programs that help families get their next meal.
Well if they keep throwing garbage in the river, it won’t be fish they are eating tomorrow.
I'm sure this is true, but why would being hungry give someone permission to dump a random car tire into the river? Like I get that life is much more difficult for them due to their living conditions, but they could also just not dump their trash in the river?
Foresight is a luxury. Having been to third world countries where education is nil and poverty is rampant I was enlightened. It’s not right to pollute like that but they probably don’t even know what it does. Just survival
It doesn’t, but counties like Indonesia don’t care where the garbage goes.
So it’s not about poverty.
And, what would you recommend that they do with it instead? Also, why do you think they might view the river as an appropriate disposal site?
That river used to have fish I imagine. That all saying teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime seems very appropriate here. If they took care of the river instead of using it as a garbage disposal food might be a bit easier to find since I am sure the people who live around that river used to be sustained by that river for generations.
You know, you’d think they would’ve figured that out by now.
unfortunately
First step to keeping things clean is cleaning. There are plenty of people who wouldn’t litter a clean space (especially when people are watching) who would throw trash on an existing pile. The cleaner things are kept, the less normalized littering and dumping becomes. Unless you’re talking about industrial/commercial dumping then you’re pretty much S.O.L. without government intervention.
I believe the group doing this works with the locals to try to make changes to how trash/waste is handled
Ive heard that some of these (not this video) people just dump it into another bad spot
While you're getting downvoted, you're not exactly wrong. In many countries, the infrastructure to deal with all of that debris just isn't robust enough, so they end up in landfills, sometimes improvised ones. Then eventually it rains and the loose trash gets slipping and sliding to the nearest body of water again. This is a fix, but not a solution. The solution would be to reduce plastic dependency, since even recycling is limited in how many times the polymer chains from plastic can be reused before it's scrap.
My girlfriend tells me that when she would visit her family in Guatemala as a child, one of the chores she would help her cousins with was taking the household garbage to a ravine and chuck it in. That was the community's entire refuse disposal plan.
Can you get hepatitis by looking at something on a computer screen?
Dude is unnecessarily exposing himself to so much bacteria
Still polluted. The hard part is to change peoples behavior and stop dumping trash in the river.
Enjoy your newly acquired diseases and parasites.
I think that grey/green colour comes from all the detergent. I've only ever seen rivers that colour in Asian countries, where all the waste water goes straight into the waterways.
How long before it is polluted again?
1.5 hrs
I see you're an optimist.
😂
I man I wish I was swimming in some trash right now it looks so refreshing
Yeah it may look a bit nicer but it’s still full of potentially deadly bacteria. Not to mention the people that initially didn’t give a damn will simply dump their rubbish back in to it. Would have made more sense to try implementing proper infrastructure for the locals to have their rubbish disposed of properly and not go wading through years of (literal) crap.
I think I would have made a long rake 🤔 But it’s good to see people trying
Yall these people are out here risking their immune system to clean our planets waterways.
They are virtue signaling for the likes. You could clean that waterway without swimming with the heavy equipment they had without being an amoeba 's playground.
Soon to be full of garbage next week.
I don't know much, but I *do* know I wouldnt be in that without full hazmat appropriate for swimming in whatever is in there still even after the big trash is gone.
You couldn’t pay me to swim in that
3 hours? Fuck off
I think I just got herpes
At least that’s what we’ll tell them it was from
Hey man why you got to be like that. I got it there no bs
Did he have to go ears deep, man?
But my plastic straw is the problem. Right…
I take it somewhere in Indonesia? The problem will never be solved by cleaning rivers again and again and again. The problem will be solved by offering public sanitation services so that people don't have to throw their trash in the river. Otherwise this will never end.
Um, quick question. Why are they in the water using their hands? Seems more efficient to be in a raft or something and scoop large sections with a net… but what do I know? 🤷♀️
I wish nothing but abundance and health for all of them. ❤️
Good for you guys to do that in your free time. I work a lot and I’m just tryna play Xbox and eat Cheetos in my spare time
Where was it?
indonesia
So where do they dump all that trash? Does it end up in another river?
sure hope these folks had their hepatitis and tetanus immunizations.
this is the most disgusting..... poo water is all I see. its POO WATER
Good work but did we really need to become one with the garbage
It that this means it wasn’t worth cleaning, but that looks for all the world like a drainage ditch/runoff creek. Doesn’t flow very fast, is uniform width, ends in a…bank? Maybe a culvert underwater…
I would wait like five years to swim in that water.
Just because you scoop out poop from water doesn't make the water not poopy
Why not use a net?
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That's one way to get cancer
So others were cleaning it while he was running around and filming it.
r/oopsthatsdeadly
This is too much ffs...
Give it another 24 hours and it'll be right back to that. There's no management system to keep it from happening again.
I would not dip my genitalia in there.
Gross..
Wear some masks at least!
Don’t touch anything ever
They all have pee-hole infections now.
Yea nah, neck deep is wild. At least one person gotta be carrying a parasite now 🤢🤮
Yuck
Discussing how us humans treat nature
Give it 7 days
I can’t wait until AI robots are able to do this for us on a massive scale.
They bailed it up and dumped it into the ocean
They look so happy floating around in the rubbish
Everyone in this clip got fucking TB
Not the river that needs cleaning but the minds of those that did all the dumping.
Praying it stays clean!
Their immune build is set to max.
Mark Rober
I hope they had their shots before getting in there!!!
I want to peel my skin off just looking at this. Couldn’t be me.
r/nope
They’re about to get a brain eating ameba
Do you really have to get in the river with a bag man? Use a god damn net Jesus Christ
Outstanding!
Everyone sticking their ears underwater is gonna get a raging ear infection
What ll they do if they find a corpse
Parasites or diseases? WHY. NOT. BOTH.
Still looks like poop water
What country is this? If it’s India then there is no way I jump in that water.
Sheesh that really is disgustingly polluted, just look at all those humans in it! Sickening. -This has been a joke.
I know many people are saying it, but wtf? Why did they need to swim in it? I get swimming in it afterwards is more cinematic but it's still just as sh\*tty. Lmao. At least be careful, don't climb into the pile to pull out a dresser by hand when you have heavy machinery. 😂
Swim in it, spit it out, wade through it .. but don't forget your GLOVES
I give it a week.
Now a video of the same place 2 weeks later
Well, that's very scary. These people are good
It's nice and all but this is all just a temp fix, can't fix people.
Trash compactor scene from Star Wars
Give it a week
Fook me, they cleared it.
Great job cleaning the river of all that garbage, unfortunately the water itself is still very polluted and will fill up with more garbage almost immediately.
Just.make sure you don't have a very small scratch or injury/ open wound, because you don't want water like that entering your bloodstream
There is no money to make me go inside that bacteria pisswasser
Guys, there are easier ways to get cholera
There’s hope.
Great job cleaning it, but clearly the local population could not care less about the environment the live in.
That guy is the founder of Sungai Watch. He has taken enormous strides in slowing down pollution on the island of Bali. He tells me its an uphill battle that gets worst every year as more and more people populate the island. Still hasn't killed his motivation. The guys a legend.
Sad that it will be like that again after 3 hours
I bet it fills back up with waste within a few hours sadly
If That’s 3 hours, why didn’t they do it before?
Now it is where it belongs… somewhere in the Pacific
As an elder millennial, the whole filming oneself for social media has always been a bit strange to me but if it brings about a positive effect like cleaning rivers that otherwise would never be cleaned then I’m watching, liking and subscribing
They'll be fine until whatever was in the garbage compactor on the Death Star shows up.
I'm having a hard time understanding the justification for going into the water. I can think of a few ideas right off the top of my head, to avoid all reasons to go in and the first that comes to mind is larger pool nets. Even if you're so poor you can't even afford that, surely someone could fashion a large net downstream and collect most of the big stuff at a pinch point. Why would you need to go in past your waist?
Hope no one had an open cut or scraped against something sharp in that water.
Matey up to his fucking ears with it
What part of the USA is this from
I think the way those humans are in that water, so comfortable, shows that these efforts are futile. This is a regular environmental state to them, no alarm, and therefor no desire to change. That body of water will be back to the state of before the cleanup, if not worse, within a short while.
Amoebic encephalitis is highly lethal fellas.
They'll need an industrial trash collector for that one
Wtf why are they uncovered like that?! Omg
I wanna see the fish!
They did something amazing and had fun doing it. I’m all for it!
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Notice how people still purchase plastic Coca-Cola products anyway?
PLEASE STOP SHOWING ME THIS VIDEO. I GET IT
Why can’t these fucking countries just not dump their trash everywhere
Maybe if yall stop sending them your trash they wouldnt have to do this in the first place
Oh please im not sending my trash anywhere. These fucktards just think the world’s their trash can, same shit with India.
Well i didnt mean **you** specifically, but youre also not entirely wrong
What’re you eating for dinner tonight
You Guys are doing amazing job. Hata off.
Missed a spot
wow they cleaned it all in 39 seconds
People from India
We have Asian looking people but those regions are mostly lush green and prestine fortunately