EVERY DAY A NIGHTMARE FOR THIS “PLASTIC VILLAGE” IN INDONESIA

Plastic Village

July 30, 2019

This video comes to us from a charity called Race for Water. It’s a short video and it’s well done. It may make a strong impression on you. 

These two poignant films show the painful reality of an innocent population drowning in the waste of the world… Race for Water takes us to Indonesia – close to Surabaya, the second biggest city after Jakarta – to where the “Plastic Village” exists, a symbol of the environmental disaster caused by global plastic pollution which is threatening us all. 

 

 

 

 

Part 1 – {videobox}https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcDCLdR_ugA&feature=youtu.be{/videobox}
Part 2 – {videobox}https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqP49quw-yo&feature=youtu.be{/videobox}

#BeatPlasticPollution
#Refuse #Reduce #Reuse #Repair #Recycle
#TogetherWeAct

Follow the Odyssey!
Throughout the Race for Water Odyssey 2017-2021, the crew posts regularly  about their adventures on Race for Water on the website www.raceforwater.org.
You will also find a map there updating the position of the boat every 3 hours.

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