Labuan Bajo and the plastic beach

A Natural paradise has turned into a “plastic paradise”, that’s the reality that faces Pede Beach in Labuan Bajo (Flores, Indonesia) where its people swim in between bottles, cups, and oil – that some ships leave behind.

Most of the rubbish on this beach, right at the center in Labuan Bajo, is produced – and thrown here – by a local hotel, says one of the locals. Other locals have said that tourism and tourism-related industries are generating a mass amount of plastic that ends on this beach.

Will humans stop the pollution or will it be the other way around, will pollution stop human habits (forever)?

For Where does my plastic go? – Project
Date March 2018
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Location Labuan Bajo, Flores, Indonesia

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Pede beach is mostly visited by locals to bathe and hang out daily. They regularly swim among drifting plastic objects.

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A boy, like many other children, is looking in the trash for something he can take from there to play.

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Most of the visible trash is indisputably non-reusable plastic bottles and cups. A local man points out at the hotel that, he has said, throws directly its waste to this beach. Other tourism-related industries contribute directly to the growth of the contamination of this area.

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