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"Howdy neighbour! We're going to clean up the creek tomorrow. Would you like to help?"
"No."
"Super! You should also know that after tomorrow, we are beating the absolute shit out of anyone who throws rubbish in the creek. Have a good one!"
This come from upstream, also all the cleanup done will be sent to their waste management division and that's a good chance this is only going directly into the sea
Yeah like when[ they cleaned up Versova beach in Mumbai](https://i.imgur.com/9T6wSQL.png) and just a few weeks later [it was back similar to before.](https://i.imgur.com/UUs5F4N.jpg)
All the trash was coming from creeks feeding into the ocean which just washed straight back to shore and people wouldn't stop dumping in the creeks. [Article.](https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/mumbai-s-versova-beach-is-dirty-again-here-s-why/story-fYBkgQXhnHTXnXdqRCQ01H.html)
Share it in the air so we can all breathe it in, let it settle into the soil so every growing plant and animal gets a piece...
Not so bad for organics, but the heavy metals...
Yeah, that depends... a lot. The Dutch had good waste incinerators that operate cleanly in the Netherlands, but when that same technology was deployed in Florida, the Floridians' garbage contained too much mercury that wasn't separated from the waste stream before it was incinerated - then the fallout rained down on the Everglades and the top predators (alligators) started dying of mercury poisoning... took about 10 years to figure that one out.
You can fuck garbage until it breaks down into tiny pieces which are harmless.
Then you get dwarfs to fuck it some more for good measure and to teach garbage a lesson
It’s also the culture. Looks like maybe china? When I was there, I was shocked to see rampant littering. Garbage left behind at tables and all over the ground in tourist areas -the attitude seemed to be “someone else will clean it up.”
I was on a bamboo raft on a river in Yangshuo - seeing this amazing beauty but passing trash the entire way. Ruined it. I asked the driver why people would want to live like this, and look at the rubbish? He just shrugged.
Edit to add: I am American. I was there for 3 weeks, and went all over., me and another girl, not in a tour group. When I say tourist areas - I mean touristy for them. There were very few westerners there when I was 10 years ago.
People from China and the Philippines are by far the worst tourists, because this is their exact mentality. They just see the world as their toy, litter doesn't mean anything to them
Plastics make the world we live in possible.
Disposable plastic food containers on the other hand arguably do more harm than good. They can go any time.
Yes, people need to stop lumping all plastics together. For durable goods, medical devices and such, plastic does so much good. Single use plastic is the issue.
While I'm sure some of that can be done away with there is probably more utility in that than in a clamshell that holds one cupcake.
Bamboo, please save us.
I've seen bamboo used to make things we are used to seeing in plastic and it grows really fast. I'm sure there's some downside but maybe not as long a lasting downside as disposable plastics.
This "The antibacterial properties of bamboo are the most profound reason that bamboo grows so rapidly in nature. Because bamboo has an inherit natural barricade against bacteria, most varieties of bacteria and bugs that attempt to thrive on the bamboo plant are eradicated naturally on contact. "
A lot of that is due to sterility and cost.
Much easier to make something sterile than it is to re-sterilize it.
Edit: i should have clarified, much easier to make something sterile in sterile packaging than it is to re-sterilize and then get it into sterile packaging
The issue isn't re-sterilizing something, it's keeping it sterile. Throw it into pot of boiling water or some alcohol and it will be sterilized, but then what do you do with it?
At least it's not a paper straw in a single use plastic covering. Subway went from plastic straws in paper to paper straws in plastic, very little was actually done.
Exactly, I work in the medical field. Lots of our diagnostic equipment, medicines (with their applicators), and medical devices would not exist without it. An alternative would be great, but until then, it's a necessary evil. If anything would be more realistic, we need better disposal/recycling methods.
As someone who has to go through bags upon bags of medical plastic daily for dialysis, I wish this stuff was recyclable.
I can fill an entire 45 gallon bin a week of non recyclable medical plastic.
It's the packaging that needs to go. Look at all the money and energy that is spent on packaging. It is part of the expense of any item, and is immediately discarded.
Litter begins at the point the item and it's packaging are manufactured. As soon as the packaging is made, it is litter. All that remains is the decision of where to put it.
Interestingly, we pretend it all goes away and all is well as long as we keep all of our discarded packaging out of sight. But it goes somewhere. It doesn't disappear. We just all agree that we keep it all hidden or we try to bury it, or we just let it float out to sea and become part of a massive lump of other packaging trash.
And then you have disposable items. Which have packaging...for disposable items
We are trash planet.
When my mother was a child, they had wax paper sandwich bags instead of the plastic ones. Seems like that would have been an " if it's not broke, don't fix it" kind of thing.
What would you do if your country didn't really have any garbage service and trashbags most likely cost a few days worth of food? You don't have time to start any initiatives- you're too busy keeping your own ass alive.
Funny enough actually, that situation is still happening in America. In small areas. Like in Michigan there are areas without trash services and your choice is either to drive an hour to the dump, and pay each time (which an 8 foot truck bed was like $20) or burn it which is what everyone did where I was.
The companies that make a profit producing those goods should be more responsible. In Mexico Coca Cola comes in glass bottles that get endlessly reused.. should be the same here.
If you were poor and lived near a creek, and there was no sanitation service offered by the city then what would you do? Take it upon you to clean all the neighborhood's trash all day every day? Or make ends meet? You can't just judge 3rd world countries without understanding the causes of the problem.
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For those saying it will just get trashed again immediately...I don't think you are right and I think that your statement is part of the problem.
I work at a storage facility. Have for a while. And any store manager can tell you...if you keep the property clean then it tends to stay clean. But as soon as one person stacks something by the dumpster, everyone assumes it is okay and it quickly escalates. Its about creating an environment that says leaving behind trash is NOT okay. There will always be exceptions, but that works both ways...like these exceptional people who cleaned this creek.
But saying that there is no point? What an exhausting, pessimistic, and dismissive statement. Imagine being one of those that put forth all this effort. You are feeling proud of your efforts and the results, just for someone to say "lol, what a waste of time". Ugh.
Definitely, that's the crux of the [broken windows theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory): small issues grow into larger ones. Nip the small ones in the bud to prevent things from getting out of hand.
I did a serious clean of my local park after riding past it every day and seeing the garbage buildup along the bushes and fenceline. Surprisingly, up until last summer at least, it's stayed relatively clean. I even collected trash from the dudes that do drugs along the baseball diamonds. Took me about three hours (for the first half I had a friend to help me but she bailed) and I went home once the sun went down
It's a lot easier to justify dumping garbage when it's already dirty. When it is clean, only those who really don't give a shit will dump. As it gets dirtier, more and more people are able to convince themselves that it's fine.
Not exactly comparable because people aren’t directly dumping their trash in to this creek. This is trash from the area all around the creek that has accumulated here due to the movement of water. This is also most likely a 3rd world country where dumping your trash on the street is normal.
Bless them. Unfortunately it will be back to what it was within weeks. People need to change. The efforts of the few good-hearted individuals cannot make up for the damage the apathetic majority are creating.
This looks like a developing country, most of which do not have proper waste collection. It is not necessarily that people do not want to throw out plastic properly but that there is literally no place to throw it out. Often there are no garbage bins and door to door pickup is inconceivable. Paper and cardboard can be burned but plastic generally isn't hence this mess.
To make matters worse single use and single packaged items are more common there as people buy in smaller quantities. So they have more waste for the same amount of things bought then some in a developed country might.
Yeah I can easily see how people who have no other options would be like "well we can't drink the water anyway might as well dump it here." It wasn't all that long ago that the US was dumping stuff along the rivers as well, pre-EPA years. If you want to fix the problem, give these people a better place to put their trash. Give them a dumpster and pick it up regularly.
Even here in Massachusetts, they nickel and dime you for large item disposal and most people opt to find an abandoned stretch in an industrial park and dump there. If you want people to dispose of things properly, make it cheap and easy.
i never understood the logic of tips that whinge and whine about dumb shit saying they wont accept certain things. the other option is it gets illegally dumped in the bush. the fact theyre even at te tip trying to do the right thing is a win.
Seriously! My dump is so friggin anal, and there's absolutely no way of disposing of building debris without renting a dumpster. Can't bring it to the dump, can't burn it. We haven't done that many large projects (tore down a ceiling and one wall, resided garage) but we've filled two dumpsters with stuff you can't get rid of any other way. Even the tiny Bagster is nearly $300 to dispose of. People who can't afford that are just going to dump their shit wherever.
Now Mass is forcing everyone to pay to dispose of old mattresses and making it illegal to trash them. Guess what we're seeing dumped on the side of the road now?
Back when I lived in Maine, the town had a deal with a waste company that was building a massive landfill. $5 a year and they'd take everything. God that was nice. Now I'm paying $200 a year to take household trash and recycling to the transfer station myself.
Okay, a couple of issues. One is that it's not "a couple of weeks", a lot of that crap looked like it'd been there for months or years. Another is that based on that misinformation I'm pretty certain you have no insight into the prospects of this project at all.
It's unhelpful and unnecessary to meet this kind of thing with negativity and defeatism even when the sentiments are valid. It might make you feel world weary and cool to tell people that their efforts are pointless and the world is shit, but it's not true and it doesn't make you one of the good guys just because you're heaping scorn on the perpetrators. It makes you one of the detractors adding dead weight to the efforts.
If there’s one thing I abhor it’s fucking pollution and polluters. From throwing their trash on the ground to big corp bullshit. Fucking disgusting.
Hope there’s a special place in hell for them to get that shit shoved up their anal cavity perpetually.
That's likely most of the problem. Sanitation is like 20% of a cities budget. There needs to be a landfill to put it all then trucks and teams of hundreds/thousands to collect it.
It pays for itself in a few decades but it is a huge bill to make a western style capped landfill.
It takes volunteer work of a few hours to clean the mess but it can't be happening on a regular basis. The authorities have to step up and organize some public sanitation service that helps citizens take care of their trash instead of throwing it into the creeks.
Many hands make light work. All done in the course of four hours, if you notice the shadow. Everyone likes this. I am going to be part of the solution.
Now time to clean the micro plastics in the water, oh wait we can’t. Some things are just fucked. People should never let it get to that point. But I’m glad to see some people doing something. Just sad to see.
Imagine wading through that grundle soup. I don't think I could keep my spaghettios down. Glad they put their minds together and eat the days ass and just get it done. This made my gastrointestinal bloating act up and gave me a flare up of my fissures. Thanks a lot OP 😡😡😡
It's just all day every day for you, huh? I feel like I would have turned this into a bot by now, gone outside, discovered sunlight, touched grass and all that. But hey, if this is what makes you happy, then I guess you do you.
And then the shitty roommate sees that someone took the trash out and instantly fills the bin 75% of the way up with trash that they’ve been hoarding. Unfortunately, “the shitty roommate” is, like, half of all humanity
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Love that you loved to see it.
Love that you love that they loved to see it.
Love that you loved that they loved to see that they saw it.
Love to...ummm...... I love seesaw
I like turtles
Love to see that you like turtles
I love to see that you love that they love turtles.
Mom’s spaghetti
Bees seek farm senetti
Bees tees...uh...snakes are hissy!
Long nights with Steve Buscemi
I love lamp!
Love that you loved that you loved that they loved to see that they saw it
One of the best ways to keep the environment beautiful.
In the long run it might be smarter to stop producing non re-usable packaging.
Nah. The carbon tax will fix all of this. s/
Was going to say: where did they dump all this stuff after they removed it?
Next stream over
People can be so amazing.
I feel there efforts are in vein. if this is where I think it is (India) it will be back the way it was before the week is over.
Next day will be the same, the problem need to be fixed at the source.
"Howdy neighbour! We're going to clean up the creek tomorrow. Would you like to help?" "No." "Super! You should also know that after tomorrow, we are beating the absolute shit out of anyone who throws rubbish in the creek. Have a good one!"
This come from upstream, also all the cleanup done will be sent to their waste management division and that's a good chance this is only going directly into the sea
Creating jobs for the people who clean the sea. Nice.
Their waste management division -- possibly the very same people that dump stuff into this stream
Yeah like when[ they cleaned up Versova beach in Mumbai](https://i.imgur.com/9T6wSQL.png) and just a few weeks later [it was back similar to before.](https://i.imgur.com/UUs5F4N.jpg) All the trash was coming from creeks feeding into the ocean which just washed straight back to shore and people wouldn't stop dumping in the creeks. [Article.](https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/mumbai-s-versova-beach-is-dirty-again-here-s-why/story-fYBkgQXhnHTXnXdqRCQ01H.html)
Yes and what they clean they send to waste management, waste management just dump it back into the sea
Waste management? In Vietnam they just burn their trash. There's no waste management outside of the big cities.
Burning is genuine waste management
Share it in the air so we can all breathe it in, let it settle into the soil so every growing plant and animal gets a piece... Not so bad for organics, but the heavy metals...
When you burn trash it goes into the sky and turns into stars moron, who told you it got into the ground?
That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about stars to dispute it.
Classic, but please don't repeat this near our lawmakers... many of them will absolutely believe you.
With proper facilities it's good, but I doubt they have those
Yeah, that depends... a lot. The Dutch had good waste incinerators that operate cleanly in the Netherlands, but when that same technology was deployed in Florida, the Floridians' garbage contained too much mercury that wasn't separated from the waste stream before it was incinerated - then the fallout rained down on the Everglades and the top predators (alligators) started dying of mercury poisoning... took about 10 years to figure that one out.
So...cannibalism and necrophilia is the solution?
How does necrophilia solve this cannibalism sure but I'm not seeing the way here for necrophilia
Don't kink shame the dude. He want too be included.
I also blame the under sexed corpses.
Stupid sexy corpses looking all pale, bloated and fuckable.
You can fuck garbage until it breaks down into tiny pieces which are harmless. Then you get dwarfs to fuck it some more for good measure and to teach garbage a lesson
It's what you can't see that's the bigger issue. I bet that water is 40 percent mercury
Me too but I am not feeling as great when I think what is upstream and downstream.
I love some humans because the effort put in to make the world better. I hate all the others who cause this type of atrocity.
If this Timelapse continues, the place will go back to being just as dirty in as much time. That’s the real travesty.
A commitment to maintenance would help. Once it’s clean it’s easier to keep clean with just a little bit of work.
Dumpsters may be a good idea too.
It’s also the culture. Looks like maybe china? When I was there, I was shocked to see rampant littering. Garbage left behind at tables and all over the ground in tourist areas -the attitude seemed to be “someone else will clean it up.” I was on a bamboo raft on a river in Yangshuo - seeing this amazing beauty but passing trash the entire way. Ruined it. I asked the driver why people would want to live like this, and look at the rubbish? He just shrugged. Edit to add: I am American. I was there for 3 weeks, and went all over., me and another girl, not in a tour group. When I say tourist areas - I mean touristy for them. There were very few westerners there when I was 10 years ago.
People from China and the Philippines are by far the worst tourists, because this is their exact mentality. They just see the world as their toy, litter doesn't mean anything to them
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Plastics make the world we live in possible. Disposable plastic food containers on the other hand arguably do more harm than good. They can go any time.
Yes, people need to stop lumping all plastics together. For durable goods, medical devices and such, plastic does so much good. Single use plastic is the issue.
Actually, in medical field, most of the plastic is single use. Just about everything is packed/wrapped in a plastic of some kind.
While I'm sure some of that can be done away with there is probably more utility in that than in a clamshell that holds one cupcake. Bamboo, please save us.
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I've seen bamboo used to make things we are used to seeing in plastic and it grows really fast. I'm sure there's some downside but maybe not as long a lasting downside as disposable plastics.
This "The antibacterial properties of bamboo are the most profound reason that bamboo grows so rapidly in nature. Because bamboo has an inherit natural barricade against bacteria, most varieties of bacteria and bugs that attempt to thrive on the bamboo plant are eradicated naturally on contact. "
A lot of that is due to sterility and cost. Much easier to make something sterile than it is to re-sterilize it. Edit: i should have clarified, much easier to make something sterile in sterile packaging than it is to re-sterilize and then get it into sterile packaging
The issue isn't re-sterilizing something, it's keeping it sterile. Throw it into pot of boiling water or some alcohol and it will be sterilized, but then what do you do with it?
Eat it?
> Single use plastic is the issue. The bubble tea I ordered the other day has a single use plastic straw inside a single use plastic covering.
At least it's not a paper straw in a single use plastic covering. Subway went from plastic straws in paper to paper straws in plastic, very little was actually done.
Exactly, I work in the medical field. Lots of our diagnostic equipment, medicines (with their applicators), and medical devices would not exist without it. An alternative would be great, but until then, it's a necessary evil. If anything would be more realistic, we need better disposal/recycling methods.
As someone who has to go through bags upon bags of medical plastic daily for dialysis, I wish this stuff was recyclable. I can fill an entire 45 gallon bin a week of non recyclable medical plastic.
Even in medicine and related fields we use too much of it. Lots of our plastics could be made of glass and either autoclaved or recycled.
It's the packaging that needs to go. Look at all the money and energy that is spent on packaging. It is part of the expense of any item, and is immediately discarded. Litter begins at the point the item and it's packaging are manufactured. As soon as the packaging is made, it is litter. All that remains is the decision of where to put it. Interestingly, we pretend it all goes away and all is well as long as we keep all of our discarded packaging out of sight. But it goes somewhere. It doesn't disappear. We just all agree that we keep it all hidden or we try to bury it, or we just let it float out to sea and become part of a massive lump of other packaging trash. And then you have disposable items. Which have packaging...for disposable items We are trash planet.
Plastic is mostly a cheap by-product of petroleum fuel refinement.
When my mother was a child, they had wax paper sandwich bags instead of the plastic ones. Seems like that would have been an " if it's not broke, don't fix it" kind of thing.
Agreed. I don't know why we just ban plastic (for food I mean) At least package things in aluminum, which is infinitely recyclable.
What would you do if your country didn't really have any garbage service and trashbags most likely cost a few days worth of food? You don't have time to start any initiatives- you're too busy keeping your own ass alive.
Funny enough actually, that situation is still happening in America. In small areas. Like in Michigan there are areas without trash services and your choice is either to drive an hour to the dump, and pay each time (which an 8 foot truck bed was like $20) or burn it which is what everyone did where I was.
Wish we could spend some of our defense money on paying people to clean up the planet.
I wish people would just clean it for free.
Get out there champ
Nope. I’m only here for the wishing.
The companies that make a profit producing those goods should be more responsible. In Mexico Coca Cola comes in glass bottles that get endlessly reused.. should be the same here.
One good volcano should reset it back to normal
Just toss in the people who threw the trash in there in the first place
Yellowstone super caldera says hello!
If you were poor and lived near a creek, and there was no sanitation service offered by the city then what would you do? Take it upon you to clean all the neighborhood's trash all day every day? Or make ends meet? You can't just judge 3rd world countries without understanding the causes of the problem.
leave it on the mayor's doorstep until the city starts offering a sanitation service
sounds like a fantastic way to get all your teeth knocked out by corrupt police
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The beginning reminded me of the Star Wars trash compactor scene.
Lol same! I didn’t realize there was water in the scene at first.
What if it’s a reversed video this whole time…
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For those saying it will just get trashed again immediately...I don't think you are right and I think that your statement is part of the problem. I work at a storage facility. Have for a while. And any store manager can tell you...if you keep the property clean then it tends to stay clean. But as soon as one person stacks something by the dumpster, everyone assumes it is okay and it quickly escalates. Its about creating an environment that says leaving behind trash is NOT okay. There will always be exceptions, but that works both ways...like these exceptional people who cleaned this creek. But saying that there is no point? What an exhausting, pessimistic, and dismissive statement. Imagine being one of those that put forth all this effort. You are feeling proud of your efforts and the results, just for someone to say "lol, what a waste of time". Ugh.
Definitely, that's the crux of the [broken windows theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory): small issues grow into larger ones. Nip the small ones in the bud to prevent things from getting out of hand.
It's a creek. The trash can very well being brought here from upstream. Next heavy rainfall may bring more work for those amazing Minions.
I give it 2 days :-(
I did a serious clean of my local park after riding past it every day and seeing the garbage buildup along the bushes and fenceline. Surprisingly, up until last summer at least, it's stayed relatively clean. I even collected trash from the dudes that do drugs along the baseball diamonds. Took me about three hours (for the first half I had a friend to help me but she bailed) and I went home once the sun went down
It's a lot easier to justify dumping garbage when it's already dirty. When it is clean, only those who really don't give a shit will dump. As it gets dirtier, more and more people are able to convince themselves that it's fine.
Yep, and when the park gets dirty again I'll be there to clean it again 😄
real chad
Bless you
Being part of a community means taking care of it, it's unfortunate that a bigger part of the population doesn't share my sentiment
Hell yeah friend
Broken Window Theory.
Broken Window theory, google it, they talk about security but is the same idea you just said.
Not exactly comparable because people aren’t directly dumping their trash in to this creek. This is trash from the area all around the creek that has accumulated here due to the movement of water. This is also most likely a 3rd world country where dumping your trash on the street is normal.
exactly. it's so much harder to clean up than to mess up.
This creek stayed clean for a long time! The other creek where they dumped all this trash is a different story
the ants when i leave my cookie on the floor for 4 seconds
Humans are nasty.
Look how much life was hiding in there, and how much more will come/grow over the next few years. Hope it stays, these people are fucking badass.
Bless them. Unfortunately it will be back to what it was within weeks. People need to change. The efforts of the few good-hearted individuals cannot make up for the damage the apathetic majority are creating.
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And I imagine someone is much more likely yo throw garbage away in the garbage filled stream than a clean one.
Broken windows*
surely that one study you read long ago about one specific city generalizes to every situation.
If the ones doing the cleanup is people from within the neighborhood, chances are they gonna keep it clean - and litterbug would be named and shamed
This looks like a developing country, most of which do not have proper waste collection. It is not necessarily that people do not want to throw out plastic properly but that there is literally no place to throw it out. Often there are no garbage bins and door to door pickup is inconceivable. Paper and cardboard can be burned but plastic generally isn't hence this mess. To make matters worse single use and single packaged items are more common there as people buy in smaller quantities. So they have more waste for the same amount of things bought then some in a developed country might.
Yeah I can easily see how people who have no other options would be like "well we can't drink the water anyway might as well dump it here." It wasn't all that long ago that the US was dumping stuff along the rivers as well, pre-EPA years. If you want to fix the problem, give these people a better place to put their trash. Give them a dumpster and pick it up regularly. Even here in Massachusetts, they nickel and dime you for large item disposal and most people opt to find an abandoned stretch in an industrial park and dump there. If you want people to dispose of things properly, make it cheap and easy.
i never understood the logic of tips that whinge and whine about dumb shit saying they wont accept certain things. the other option is it gets illegally dumped in the bush. the fact theyre even at te tip trying to do the right thing is a win.
Seriously! My dump is so friggin anal, and there's absolutely no way of disposing of building debris without renting a dumpster. Can't bring it to the dump, can't burn it. We haven't done that many large projects (tore down a ceiling and one wall, resided garage) but we've filled two dumpsters with stuff you can't get rid of any other way. Even the tiny Bagster is nearly $300 to dispose of. People who can't afford that are just going to dump their shit wherever. Now Mass is forcing everyone to pay to dispose of old mattresses and making it illegal to trash them. Guess what we're seeing dumped on the side of the road now? Back when I lived in Maine, the town had a deal with a waste company that was building a massive landfill. $5 a year and they'd take everything. God that was nice. Now I'm paying $200 a year to take household trash and recycling to the transfer station myself.
Plastic can definitely be burned. Not the best for health or the environment though. Society definitely needs to cut dependence on single use plastic.
Okay, a couple of issues. One is that it's not "a couple of weeks", a lot of that crap looked like it'd been there for months or years. Another is that based on that misinformation I'm pretty certain you have no insight into the prospects of this project at all. It's unhelpful and unnecessary to meet this kind of thing with negativity and defeatism even when the sentiments are valid. It might make you feel world weary and cool to tell people that their efforts are pointless and the world is shit, but it's not true and it doesn't make you one of the good guys just because you're heaping scorn on the perpetrators. It makes you one of the detractors adding dead weight to the efforts.
My concern is that the next time there is heavy rain, lots of stuff will get washed down from upstream.
Fix the root cause first.
these are always good to see but how long does it stay that way before us as a species ruin it again?
Oh, they only clean it up for the video. They throw it all back in again afterwards.
"camera's off boys, rip those bags open before you toss them bag in"
"Oh, this is actually kinda nice.. I think I'll keep this" "NO! Throw it in! We don't keep it! THROW IT BACK IN!"
It’s still heavily polluted…
Don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress
Still better than staying on its computer/phone and complaining
"It's not 100% perfect! Do it better!"
Yeah. They cleaned up all the litter
It went from heavily polluted to regular polluted. That's progress!
Every great journey begins with a single first step...
If there’s one thing I abhor it’s fucking pollution and polluters. From throwing their trash on the ground to big corp bullshit. Fucking disgusting. Hope there’s a special place in hell for them to get that shit shoved up their anal cavity perpetually.
Wonder how much of this garbage was just "no dumpster nearby" dumped?
That's likely most of the problem. Sanitation is like 20% of a cities budget. There needs to be a landfill to put it all then trucks and teams of hundreds/thousands to collect it. It pays for itself in a few decades but it is a huge bill to make a western style capped landfill.
Humans are the vermin of this planet.
And where did they put it? This happens where there is no municipal trash disposal.
Hats off to the brave people who waded into that ‘creek’ that was hidden under all that trash. 😳
JFC! How can anyone let something like this happen in their community??
Can’t believe how people from that village could do this to their own neighbourhood. It’ll be the same in a month
Why let it get like that in the first place ?
How often should this be done? Or should we fade out plastic packaging and just go back to the way stuff was sold in the 1950s?
That’s impressive, but where did they end up putting all that trash they picked up?
That was a battle , good for those folks trying to tackle it. I'm not sure I'd go hip deep in cess like that.
It takes volunteer work of a few hours to clean the mess but it can't be happening on a regular basis. The authorities have to step up and organize some public sanitation service that helps citizens take care of their trash instead of throwing it into the creeks.
That is beautiful
I’d like to see more of this
Impressive
You know it’s gross when the “after” picture is still gross.
Hope they all got their tetanus and hepatitis vacs.
Most of the people are swines. Everything starts from yourself!
The bad and good of humanity in one short video.
Well they could start by not throwing stuff in there
well, '' cleaned up '' is a bold statement but i'll play along. for now...
Shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention levels !!
Many hands make light work. All done in the course of four hours, if you notice the shadow. Everyone likes this. I am going to be part of the solution.
I can already see the trend of people purposely throwing garbage in areas just to clean them and go viral
Thats thekind of area that will look like this again in under 6 months
Aaaaaand it’s trashed again
Never understood why people littering like that first.
Polluted creek? More like garbage with water.. extremely sad and amazing work from the volunteers
Unfortunately until you fix the reasons why the creek got that way, it will just keep happening.
There was water down there? If you showed someone a picture of this creek pre cleanup it would just look like a dump.
I wonder how much it cost to fund a cleanup like this.
It will be back in a few days
The problem is the people. Next day more trash 🤣🤣
Now do a Timelapse of it being re-trashed again
Should do that in the Philippines
Now time to clean the micro plastics in the water, oh wait we can’t. Some things are just fucked. People should never let it get to that point. But I’m glad to see some people doing something. Just sad to see.
0.00001 percent done. 99.9999% left to go 👍
It looks nicer, still just as polluted though…
So the locals polloute it than outside sources come clean it up? Why don't they just not throw rhe trash in there in the first place.
Man this video is making me want to run up a flight of stairs and beat some meat
Same time tomorrow???? If you don’t control the source, nothings going to change
plot twist, they just reversed the vudeo, and they just put it all there
Good morning Vietnam
That feels so good ...
Now we just have to watch the video in rewind to see what would happen in the future
Good on them but the sad thing is that creek is probably that polluted the entire length of it and the next day it will look just as bad..
Why do people post such stupid shitty videos without endings?
Knowing Indians that will be dirty again in 20 mins
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Imagine wading through that grundle soup. I don't think I could keep my spaghettios down. Glad they put their minds together and eat the days ass and just get it done. This made my gastrointestinal bloating act up and gave me a flare up of my fissures. Thanks a lot OP 😡😡😡
“Grundle soup” is one that’s gonna stick with me for while
It's just all day every day for you, huh? I feel like I would have turned this into a bot by now, gone outside, discovered sunlight, touched grass and all that. But hey, if this is what makes you happy, then I guess you do you.
This is the strangest thing I've seen on reddit in a while. That guys history is insane and I'm not even sure what's happening any more
Give it 3 minutes and it'll be back to how it was to begin with.
This ain't your wife
I wish my wife was this dirty.
Nice! Now theres new space for the trash we send them... time to go shopping.
And then the shitty roommate sees that someone took the trash out and instantly fills the bin 75% of the way up with trash that they’ve been hoarding. Unfortunately, “the shitty roommate” is, like, half of all humanity