matt: that's something bali-raised gary bencheghib is trying to change with his organization, sungai plastics that, you know, literally fills up the brink of kuta beach comes from somewhere. and it comes from the rivers. rivers are essentially the toilets of indonesia. they're on the backs of hotels, villas. with this lack of waste management that we have on the island, our rivers in bali have turned into garbage dumps. matt: the covid shutdown provided an unexpected opportunity. gary: there's this sense of we wanna go somewhere, we wanna do something. and so that's really where we started our weekly clean-ups around that same time. progressively, you know, we went from, like, 20, 30, and now we're all the way up to, like, 150, 200 people. ♪♪♪ gary: because of covid, people have more time. there's this community out there that wants to clean and press the reset button on bali before we open up to international tourism. ♪♪♪ matt: so here we are, standing waist to knee depth in the rivers. the badung district has got all these workers here. they've all lost their jobs in the covid pand

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gary bencheghib: the island of gods had become the island of trash.g foreign language] matt: now, mostly closed to the outside world,