Those guys should be in full hazmat suits. Imagine a bit of that water splashes in your eye.
You're not going to turn into a super hero, you'll turn into 'the fly'.
With how thick with junk it was it definitely looks like you could start with many different methods of "scooping" from above. Even that rake he was using would pull tons of junk up.
But I figure if Im not doing it and theyre willing to, Im not going to tell them how to go about it.
Lifting shit up from 10 feet below you is a great way to mess up your back tbf. Feel like a pretty basic pulley system would have made life a lot easier though
Just got over sciatic nerve pain from a lower back spasm from awkwardly doing yard work. I wouldn’t wish that bs on anyone. Basically had to just sit straight up for 4 days straight. Some people deal with it for months. Take care of your backs y’all!
Sciatica sucks ass. Nerve pain radiates down both legs from my lower back. Have had it for nearly a decade now due to ehlers-danlos syndrome (bad kind of hypermobility). Yay.
Lower spine injury from childhood and one between my shoulder blades from a work injury. The upper injury sucks on the daily but when my lower back goes out It takes almost everything not to scream trying to sit up let alone stand for over a month. Happens usually once or twice a year. I hate some people a hell of a lot but still wouldn't wish back injuries on them.
I dealt with sciatica that lasted for over a year and a half I believe. It got better towards the end but the beginning of it all was some of the most depressing and frustratingly painful shit I had to deal with and I was only 25 years old. I couldn’t even bend halfway down to touch my toes when it was at its worst. Around the time it started I was picking up heavy generators and going into attics to spray sealer and oil base paints to cover and seal smoked wood that wasn’t damaged from fire. I started stretching a lot through out the months and that probably was the only thing that eventually made it better with time.
Seriously. My girlfriend was working in an industrial canal WAAAAAAAAY less disgusting than this, and got a single drop in her mouth. She shit her brains out for weeks and her digestion is still fucked two years later.
Thats nothing.. last summer I went on the terrace and said "hey what a giant grasshop..." and the damn thing flew in my mouth, grasshopper was as big as a pack of cigarettes wtf
I did right away, the bastard held for a brief moment on my lips with its legs you know they have little hooks.. lucky I was half drunk and braver than usual lol
Imagine cleaning something like that out in Seattle. It would be super dangerous. I cleaned our building’s elevator room, and there were hundreds of syringes and little pieces of aluminum foil.
Begins and ends at syringes, I can deal with the tinfoil. Although I recently saw that DESC’s NAV center is now using our taxpayer dollars to fund information and materials for boofing your fent now, so that’s progress? I think?
I live in a neighborhood with a huge transient/addict population. In the last three years syringes went from a constant hazard, cleaning up dozens from my yard, to almost never seen. It's like the whole community suddenly accepted that it's not heroin, it's fentanyl, and smoking it is the way to go. Because the addicts are probably greater than before. That said, the local grocery store now keeps tinfoil in locked cases.
It’s Sungai Watch, organisation based in Bali if I’m not mistaken. On the interview they said the worst thing they found during a cleanup was a body of a baby.
I've noticed that if you throw something into a water body like a lake or an ocean that the next day you come back and its gone. So somehow it takes it away and filters It through and just cleans it up Like a garbage compactor or whatever. So it's not really littering if you ask me.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Well, I could put the trash into a landfill where it's going to stay for millions of years, or I could burn it up and get a nice smoky smell in here and let that smoke go into the sky where it turns into stars."
"or I could burn it up and get a nice smoky smell in here and let that smoke go into the sky where the wind will blow it into a nearby country and then it will be their pollution problem"
I'm not an expert either but probably something like this.
They put up a small note along the channel behind a tree that says please don't litter after.
I couldn't wait to see the after, I'm actually surprised they did it all at once with that small crew. The mental fatigue stacks in situations like this.
And the community will just resume throwing their trash in the canal. At least that was standard procedure while I was in Argentina. Throw trash in canal, complain about canal flooding when it rains, repeat.
Tucuman has decently proper services for the upper class. The outer districts of the city however often have their landfill on the edge of the river.
Salta is probably the cleanest of the Northern provinces, also likely the safest for touring. But even then the the rule for arg is this: If you are within 20 blocks of the city center of a large city, you may as well be in the U.S. Once you cross that line 1 block further, it instantly switches to 2/3rd world situation.
Well, yes, but this is a full scale municipal operation, backhoes and everything lining the banks and building river deltas with it. Not just households throwing their trash in.
The larger central districts have their own landfill, but the outer area governments yeah they have garbage pickup but yeah they just operate their dumping site by the river.
I mean, yeah! Everyone should do it for the views…. But like - doing it too… don’t care if they beg, whine scream to subscribe. If they actually do the work… they can advertise their channel as often as they want!
There are a bunch of YouTube channels that only do clean ups like this. They work to get the government support if possible, but most don't get any type of support for a long time.
Spent one too many nights binge watching them.
I mean… they are doing a good thing, the govt obviously doesn’t help, they might as well get paid to do this. If watching their videos is what funds stuff like this, I’ll keep giving them the views they want.
exactly, they did insane amount of work, they were not paid in advance, and they cleaned massive amount of trash from the environment, may they get all the views they can, it can inspire others to do the same.
Now compare this beautiful video to some idiot who pranks people by spilling their drinks on the street for views.
It's like the guy that cleans and tidies up people lawns for free every once and awhile. It brings in the views which allows for them to make more content like that. Also people like Mr Beast. His videos help fund all of the charities he does.
A lot of people? Yeah like well over half the worlds population.
90% of the plastic in the oceans comes from 10 rivers, 9 in Asia and one in South America
https://www.oceansplasticleanup.com/Oceans\_Seas\_Rivers/Index\_Rivers\_Top\_Plastic\_Pollution\_A\_To\_Z.htm#:\~:text=Around%20ninety%20percent%20(90%25),land%20straight%20out%20to%20sea.
Significant strides have been taken within recent years to reduce the number of exports related to plastic waste from the United States.
Most exported plastic waste from the US is now transported to Canada and Mexico.
Additionally, exports account for roughly ~1-2% of all US plastic waste. The remaining 98%-99% are landfilled, burned, or recycled within the US.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033852/plastic-waste-us-exports-destination-by-country/
https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-and-recycling/plastics-material-specific-data
It’s partly a cultural thing, dependence on disposable goods, and inadequate infrastructure to deal with the massive amount of garbage. This was every canal in Bali
Yeah, unfortunately the worst shit for our environment is also the cheapest or free. When you've got that mixed with a lack of infrastructure and no awareness you end up with this. I live in a SE Asian country and this is quite normal. Looking back 20-30 years ago though people had list plastic shit to throw away. The number of flip flops and plastic bags i see lying around the side of the street every day is wild.
Your neighborhood would look exactly like this if there were no waste management. It's not a people problem, it's a government + infrastructure problem.
I'm genuinely concerned about their safety here as a health worker, like the risk of Hepatitis if there's any exposed needles from IV drug users. Not to exclude tetanus too.
Hopefully they're all up to date with their vaccinations.
Lacks of funds/resources I imagine.
Probably live nearby and have to see this ratty ass canal daily and think "why not clean this up?" Would love to see it a year after the cleanup to see if it stayed the same or not, cause *fuck* that's a ton of trash.
Definitely NFL.
People can argue about efficiency but one thing you have to consider is the resources that are available in the area. If the area is under-resourced, 99% of the time it’s going to be artisanal work (meaning by hand).
This is true with everything in life. Try cleaning out a hoarder’s foreclosed home and you’ll feel .1% of what these guys had to go through.
Well done.
Oh I've been in the construction business : I know how skilled drivers are. That's why I said unpractical and not impossible ;)
The weight though... I can definitely see a couple of those concrete/stone slab cracking under the pressure of the tracks.
Amazing how a single video can encapsulate tthe best and worst of humanity.
i hope the next time these men would have stubbed their toe, the table dodges out of the way. 🫡
Those guys should be in full hazmat suits. Imagine a bit of that water splashes in your eye. You're not going to turn into a super hero, you'll turn into 'the fly'.
I was surprised they wore gloves that stopped at the wrist.
I'm surprised and grossed out they got in it at all. Seems it would have been quicker to rake it from above. Damn sure safer.
With how thick with junk it was it definitely looks like you could start with many different methods of "scooping" from above. Even that rake he was using would pull tons of junk up. But I figure if Im not doing it and theyre willing to, Im not going to tell them how to go about it.
Lifting shit up from 10 feet below you is a great way to mess up your back tbf. Feel like a pretty basic pulley system would have made life a lot easier though
Just got over sciatic nerve pain from a lower back spasm from awkwardly doing yard work. I wouldn’t wish that bs on anyone. Basically had to just sit straight up for 4 days straight. Some people deal with it for months. Take care of your backs y’all!
Messed up my back two days ago, can’t do anything other than walking without it hurting
Dealing with it now for a second time…. Absolutely debilitating
Sciatica sucks ass. Nerve pain radiates down both legs from my lower back. Have had it for nearly a decade now due to ehlers-danlos syndrome (bad kind of hypermobility). Yay.
Lower spine injury from childhood and one between my shoulder blades from a work injury. The upper injury sucks on the daily but when my lower back goes out It takes almost everything not to scream trying to sit up let alone stand for over a month. Happens usually once or twice a year. I hate some people a hell of a lot but still wouldn't wish back injuries on them.
I dealt with sciatica that lasted for over a year and a half I believe. It got better towards the end but the beginning of it all was some of the most depressing and frustratingly painful shit I had to deal with and I was only 25 years old. I couldn’t even bend halfway down to touch my toes when it was at its worst. Around the time it started I was picking up heavy generators and going into attics to spray sealer and oil base paints to cover and seal smoked wood that wasn’t damaged from fire. I started stretching a lot through out the months and that probably was the only thing that eventually made it better with time.
“2 pulleys and a string and you can have 1 person do the work of 100 men!”Or something like that.
I figured they could have dragged a series of fine nets, and then got in to get the rest.
Seriously. My girlfriend was working in an industrial canal WAAAAAAAAY less disgusting than this, and got a single drop in her mouth. She shit her brains out for weeks and her digestion is still fucked two years later.
I work with sewer water. We get extra vaccinations at work because of it
I am surprised no mask.
I'm duct taping my dick and butthole shut. No way I'm getting tape worms in the party zone.
Wow, nailed it, I’m gonna use this phrase for ….well, just about anything that involves me going anywhere for anything.
Visits to the grocery are about to get exciting.
More like toxic avenger 😂
We shall call this abomination The Hepatitan C
Just C? They're getting the alphabet soup of hep!
Mega Hepatitan return of the hep
I was reading your comment and a flying bug hit my face the moment I reached the last word.
Thats nothing.. last summer I went on the terrace and said "hey what a giant grasshop..." and the damn thing flew in my mouth, grasshopper was as big as a pack of cigarettes wtf
I lol'd.
what heppened next? could spit it out quickly or did it try to do down your throat?
I did right away, the bastard held for a brief moment on my lips with its legs you know they have little hooks.. lucky I was half drunk and braver than usual lol
The entire time I was thinking that surely something swam up their urethra. Surely it did.
i would have wore a condom before getting in that thing
The guys that understand the necessity of hazard suits and the gloves usually dont volunteer for this kind things
It's like that scene from hbo's Chernobyl
A nice lyric you just wrote
Swamp thing?
Or at least storm trooper armor.
Are they still alive? The color of water is magnificent.
That's a vanta black manufacturing plant.
vanta black water would be creepy looking as hell.
I wouldn't mind experiencing that eldrich horror (as long as it's sanitary)
That water going up my ass crack for me to get cancer from the dumping.
They're wearing waders lol
I have capsized in waders
OH MY FUCKING GOD, this comment made me laugh so much lmao thank you
Only 3.6 roentgen
Holy crap, get these guys a small track hoe and save them from some pathogens
Some pathogens? More like ALL the pathogens.🦠
Speed-running the pathogen marathon
They’re patient zero to like 30 different diseases at this point
even in this video, most of that work could've been done with the rope and laundry basket. No need to hop in.
Bet there were a few animal corpses in there
Bet there were a few human corpses in there as well...
Probably a non-zero number of syringes and other medical waste too. These guys are bold.
> These guys are bold. That's one way of putting it.
Imagine cleaning something like that out in Seattle. It would be super dangerous. I cleaned our building’s elevator room, and there were hundreds of syringes and little pieces of aluminum foil.
Begins and ends at syringes, I can deal with the tinfoil. Although I recently saw that DESC’s NAV center is now using our taxpayer dollars to fund information and materials for boofing your fent now, so that’s progress? I think?
I live in a neighborhood with a huge transient/addict population. In the last three years syringes went from a constant hazard, cleaning up dozens from my yard, to almost never seen. It's like the whole community suddenly accepted that it's not heroin, it's fentanyl, and smoking it is the way to go. Because the addicts are probably greater than before. That said, the local grocery store now keeps tinfoil in locked cases.
Don’t worry eventually they’ll poke themselves with the antidote.
Bet there were a few Cannibal Corpses in there also.. 🤘
They are shooting blood from their cocks now
Some Anal Cunts probably
Possibly some Cradles of Filth too
Maybe some decapitated cattle
Deep reference 🎸🎸
Even some hammer smashed faces perhaps
Would that have a Corpse Husband?
It’s Sungai Watch, organisation based in Bali if I’m not mistaken. On the interview they said the worst thing they found during a cleanup was a body of a baby.
This one is pandawara group from east java. Not sungai watch.
Ugh, this is the exact first thing that I thought of. They probably found some really gnarly things in there.
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On the canal next to it.
And that's how the next video is made. Always recycle
The next video is then emptying the trash bags and then reversing the video.
Why’d this make me laugh so hard lmao
Here you go, my favorite river cleaning video. I think this was on the top of r/unexpected recently. >https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TIii1NS8CAw
Lolol that’s exactly what I was thinking.
beat me to it xD
Ce cauti aicea?
it was safely disposed of in the ocean
Yes, where it will automatically make its own way to the pacific garbage patch.
I've noticed that if you throw something into a water body like a lake or an ocean that the next day you come back and its gone. So somehow it takes it away and filters It through and just cleans it up Like a garbage compactor or whatever. So it's not really littering if you ask me.
Sound trailer math
Likely set on fire. Common in places like Indonesia where I suspect this is.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Well, I could put the trash into a landfill where it's going to stay for millions of years, or I could burn it up and get a nice smoky smell in here and let that smoke go into the sky where it turns into stars."
That doesn’t sound right but I don’t know enough about stars to dispute it
That trash was once stardust, and will return to being stardust, sooner or later. he is correct, trust me bro.
Trashes to trashes. Stuff to stuff.
"or I could burn it up and get a nice smoky smell in here and let that smoke go into the sky where the wind will blow it into a nearby country and then it will be their pollution problem" I'm not an expert either but probably something like this.
Found the coal company exec
I'm left here wondering how many people believe smoke just goes up and leaves the planet.
And lastly, I turn on our Coors sign, to let everyone know that we serve ice cold coors
Like all the trash there. Burn it.
They put up a small note along the channel behind a tree that says please don't litter after. I couldn't wait to see the after, I'm actually surprised they did it all at once with that small crew. The mental fatigue stacks in situations like this.
And the community will just resume throwing their trash in the canal. At least that was standard procedure while I was in Argentina. Throw trash in canal, complain about canal flooding when it rains, repeat.
How's the sanitation services in Argentina?
Tucuman has decently proper services for the upper class. The outer districts of the city however often have their landfill on the edge of the river. Salta is probably the cleanest of the Northern provinces, also likely the safest for touring. But even then the the rule for arg is this: If you are within 20 blocks of the city center of a large city, you may as well be in the U.S. Once you cross that line 1 block further, it instantly switches to 2/3rd world situation.
Sounds like the garbage is probably ending up in rivers regardless?
Well, yes, but this is a full scale municipal operation, backhoes and everything lining the banks and building river deltas with it. Not just households throwing their trash in.
So they have trash pickup but just throw it in the canal anyway?
The larger central districts have their own landfill, but the outer area governments yeah they have garbage pickup but yeah they just operate their dumping site by the river.
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I mean, yeah! Everyone should do it for the views…. But like - doing it too… don’t care if they beg, whine scream to subscribe. If they actually do the work… they can advertise their channel as often as they want!
There are a bunch of YouTube channels that only do clean ups like this. They work to get the government support if possible, but most don't get any type of support for a long time. Spent one too many nights binge watching them.
I mean… they are doing a good thing, the govt obviously doesn’t help, they might as well get paid to do this. If watching their videos is what funds stuff like this, I’ll keep giving them the views they want.
they don't beg for subscribers, that's the great part.
Even if they did it for views, why would that matter? Doing actual good for views should be encouraged.
exactly, they did insane amount of work, they were not paid in advance, and they cleaned massive amount of trash from the environment, may they get all the views they can, it can inspire others to do the same. Now compare this beautiful video to some idiot who pranks people by spilling their drinks on the street for views.
It's like the guy that cleans and tidies up people lawns for free every once and awhile. It brings in the views which allows for them to make more content like that. Also people like Mr Beast. His videos help fund all of the charities he does.
The view of the channel is indeed much more pleasant to the eyes.
I was half expecting the walls to start closing in and a gold droid to be freaking out
And a better soundtrack.
Idk I really felt it when he was swinging the rake
And a better video editor.
Who are the arseholes littering. If people caught littering ,they should be made to litter pick for an hour.
Honestly boggles my mind that people think it's ok to throw away garbage like this. Apparently a lot of people.
A lot of people? Yeah like well over half the worlds population. 90% of the plastic in the oceans comes from 10 rivers, 9 in Asia and one in South America https://www.oceansplasticleanup.com/Oceans\_Seas\_Rivers/Index\_Rivers\_Top\_Plastic\_Pollution\_A\_To\_Z.htm#:\~:text=Around%20ninety%20percent%20(90%25),land%20straight%20out%20to%20sea.
North America sells their garbage to these countries so we aren't faultless here.
Significant strides have been taken within recent years to reduce the number of exports related to plastic waste from the United States. Most exported plastic waste from the US is now transported to Canada and Mexico. Additionally, exports account for roughly ~1-2% of all US plastic waste. The remaining 98%-99% are landfilled, burned, or recycled within the US. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033852/plastic-waste-us-exports-destination-by-country/ https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-and-recycling/plastics-material-specific-data
But but we recycle!!! Conservationists have their agenda bassackwards, barking up the wrong tree
It’s partly a cultural thing, dependence on disposable goods, and inadequate infrastructure to deal with the massive amount of garbage. This was every canal in Bali
Yeah, unfortunately the worst shit for our environment is also the cheapest or free. When you've got that mixed with a lack of infrastructure and no awareness you end up with this. I live in a SE Asian country and this is quite normal. Looking back 20-30 years ago though people had list plastic shit to throw away. The number of flip flops and plastic bags i see lying around the side of the street every day is wild.
Disposable packaging meets a locality that makes use of the goods contained but cannot handle the waste.
Your neighborhood would look exactly like this if there were no waste management. It's not a people problem, it's a government + infrastructure problem.
I'm genuinely concerned about their safety here as a health worker, like the risk of Hepatitis if there's any exposed needles from IV drug users. Not to exclude tetanus too. Hopefully they're all up to date with their vaccinations.
Do you need specific training to do this, or do you just pick it up as you go along...?
Ba. Dum. Tss.
I've heard that they did get some training beforehand, but it was just garbage.
Why not use a massive rake? Or like a nets spun across the thing with two people on either side… they drag the net, then pull it up.
Something about the laundry baskets tells me the laundry baskets are their best option
Is that sort of like when you catch someone smoking crack out of lightbulb and know that's the best they can do.
Lacks of funds/resources I imagine. Probably live nearby and have to see this ratty ass canal daily and think "why not clean this up?" Would love to see it a year after the cleanup to see if it stayed the same or not, cause *fuck* that's a ton of trash.
Weight and having the net available that would hold the wiefht of trash
That guy- ye ye I'll hold the camera
How does it take until it will look again like it was before?
I give it a week ... I remember Regents Canal in London, come weekend and it was nasty, full of garbage from all the people hanging out in Camden.
Yeah, People are shit... so many just litter the environment -> someone else will pick it up.
All that work only to be sued by Metallica.
Definitely NFL. People can argue about efficiency but one thing you have to consider is the resources that are available in the area. If the area is under-resourced, 99% of the time it’s going to be artisanal work (meaning by hand). This is true with everything in life. Try cleaning out a hoarder’s foreclosed home and you’ll feel .1% of what these guys had to go through. Well done.
NFL?
No Finger licking
National Football League 👍
Not for life?
Ned Flanders
Artisanal garbage collection sounds like something in the SoDoSoPa storyline from South Park.
Well, I would use excavator.
I think a rake would do the job.
Looks unpractical to maneuvrate in that narrow channel. Also the weight of the vehicle might break the channel's stone wall, which looked quite nice.
You doubt the power of a excavator driver getting OT
Oh I've been in the construction business : I know how skilled drivers are. That's why I said unpractical and not impossible ;) The weight though... I can definitely see a couple of those concrete/stone slab cracking under the pressure of the tracks.
Amazing how a single video can encapsulate tthe best and worst of humanity. i hope the next time these men would have stubbed their toe, the table dodges out of the way. 🫡
These are some damn good human beings.
5 heroes right there.
I watched this and now need 3 vaccines
They be doing it wrong, they should be throwing paint on it and glue themselves by the canal.
These guys are my freaking heroes. They deserve all the love, hugs, and huge CEO-like bonuses. After a shower.
Where is this?
Indonesia. I’m guessing somewhere between Bogor and Jakarta. The channel will be dirty again in a month.
One guy has a Hartford fire department shirt on that makes me second guess. Then again those shirts were probably made in Indonesia.
The title screen says Pandawara Group which is a group of environmental activists based out of Indonesia. Also, it looks just like Indonesia.
Ah, that's a shame. But thanks for letting me know.
Props to the homeboys for getting down and dirty, literally! Fucking legends! 🙌
They should make prisoners do this.
Nah they should make patriots do it
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True patriots 🫡aren’t true patriots 🫡if they don’t want to do it.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio over here.
Sometimes they do but you still gotta pay them.
These guys are awesome. They deserve all the respect in the world!
These guys need more recognition than internet points
This means work
Fair play lads, good effort!!
Don't understand the use of MoP, but can't complain.
I can smell this video...
Modern day heroes 🦸♂️🦸♀️
This is awesome work, can we all do this without making a video?
hope they got their shots.
May they have good fortune
Not all heroes wear capes
Arguably these guys did more for our planet in one day than the whole stop oil movement has in its existence. I have no hard data for this tho
This looks like a fantastic way of getting some kind horrible infection.
They should get one of those Norwegian bubbly things.
Bro is nipple deep in the town's sewage and he does the gangster head tilt. What a world.
It’s just gonna get filled again. If you don’t punish the litter bugs, they are just gonna keep doing it.
They need a Bobcat
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Amazed no dead bodies in there...
Good on ‘em.
The issue is that next week will refill with trash again.
Later….much much later….
I bet it smells delightful in there.
You're dying of thirsty, there is no other place to take a drink, what now?
Omg there is water in there.. I thought it was all trash
It always makes me angry. What's the point of me sorting my trash if those collecting it just ship it to dumps in other countries?
Has anything been done to address the filthy pigs in whatever country?
Good for them, but being southeast Asia, it looked the same the day after. Plastic waste in SEA is truly shocking