Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali | Melati and Isabel Wijsen

Plastic bags are essentially indestructible, yet they're used and thrown away with reckless abandon. Most end up in the ocean, where they pollute the water and harm marine life; the rest are...

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Melati Wijsen: Bali -- island of gods.Isabel Wijsen: A green paradise.MW: Or ...a paradise lost.Bali:island of garbage.IW: In Bali,we generate 680 cubic meters of plastic garbage a day.That's about a 14-story building.And when it comes to plastic bags,less than five percent gets recycled.MW: We know that changes the image you may have of our island.It changed ours, too, when we learned about it,when we learned that almost all plastic bags in Bali end up in our drainsand then in our riversand then in our ocean.And those that don't even make it to the ocean,they're either burned or littered.IW: So we decided to do something about it.And we've been working for almost three years nowto try to say no to plastic bags on our home island.And we ...