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  • Interesting if you put the dots together.

  • Like, styrofoam is only what, a couple, a meter away from the fish that just died.

  • So, connecting the dots here again and seeing...hmm.

  • I'm in the island of Bali, Indonesia, and I'm taking an evening stroll with Melati Wijsen, a Balinese teenager.

  • Melati's no ordinary youth though.

  • She's just 17 years old, but together with her 15-year-old sister Isabel,

  • the two of them have met with world leaders, celebrities and spoken at numerous global events.

  • Recently, she was invited as the Inspirational Speaker at the IMF and World Bank meetings in Bali.

  • That's because Melati's been fighting to tackle plastic pollution.

  • Her hometown Bali may be a holiday paradise for many, but it has such a serious waste problem

  • that the government declared a “garbage emergencylast year.

  • It started five years ago with my sister, and we were at the time,

  • I was 12 years old and my sister was 10. This is our home beach.

  • So we grew up here on the island of Bali.

  • One thing is really the awakening of, you know recognising that plastic was everywhere,

  • whether we were going swimming in the ocean, tanning on the beach,

  • walking through the rice fields, on the street. Plastic was everywhere.

  • Melati and her sister, Isabel, decided that even though they were young,

  • they could not wait for change to happen.

  • Taking matters into their own hands, they decided to set up

  • Bye Bye Plastic Bags to get people to say no to using plastic.

  • Melati took me to her local beach, just 100 metres from her house, to show me the extent of plastic pollution.

  • Sorry, some plastic.

  • That's some plastic that they've found.

  • This stuff washes up all the time and it's not only coming from the oceans, it's coming from the land.

  • Plastic is literally everywhere.

  • It's pretty ironic as well if you think about it that the bin is just here but the plastic is there.

  • Oh, yeah.

  • It's because this bin never gets picked up, so they kind of get fed up and dump it all in there.

  • Indonesia has a serious plastic problem.

  • It's the world's second-largest plastic polluter, right behind China.

  • That's because of many factors, such as the many plastic products

  • offered in Indonesia to suit its emerging market of consumers.

  • We have all of these single, single day packs for shampoo or you have five peanuts

  • or five pieces of keropok, like crackers, rice crackers, in their own single, plastic bag.

  • And we consume it every day without thinking about the consequences.

  • Indonesia also faces the problems of a fast-growing population

  • and a general lack of awareness on plastic pollution.

  • Again, the statement of people on the island do not care. I don't believe in that.

  • I think the people don't know what else to do.

  • To combat the problem, Bye Bye Plastic Bags has raised awareness through some of the biggest

  • beach clean-ups in Bali, bringing together more than 35,000 people in the last two years.

  • The organisation, which is run on donations and by volunteers, have also put together

  • a booklet to educate children on plastic pollution and what they can do to reduce plastic use.

  • Melati is taking a gap year before starting university, and she's working on several projects,

  • such as a social enterprise making bags out of recycled materials.

  • As part of the One Island One Voice project, her latest initiative is getting businesses

  • in Bali to commit to using fewer plastic items like straws and bags.

  • She has more than 350 businesses on board in just three months.

  • And aims to get 1,000 by the end of the year.

  • It's been a rollercoaster ride for both Melati and Isabel, but they have been persistent and pretty fearless.

  • Four years ago, they even staged a hunger strike to get

  • the governor of Bali to meet them. And he responded with an offer to meet.

  • He signed a memorandum of understanding to work together with Bye Bye Plastic Bags,

  • and later declared a commitment for Bali to be plastic free by 2018.

  • That hasn't happened yet, but Melati says she isn't deterred.

  • As a 17-year-old changemaker what has been super interesting

  • and a learning curve for me has been learning how to deal with politicians.

  • So I would say it's like dancing with politicians,

  • it's three steps forward two steps back and then again and again.

  • There are many organisations trying to raise awareness,

  • and plenty of eco-friendly businesses selling plastic-free products.

  • In Bali, many hotels and restaurants have gone plastic free,

  • preferring to use to paper straws or recyclable straws instead.

  • Indonesia has set a goal to reduce plastic waste by 70% by 2025.

  • And with passionate young Indonesians like Melati and Isabel,

  • the country may well be able to win its battle against plastic pollution.

Interesting if you put the dots together.

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