Horrified British holidaymaker plays 'find the plastic' game with his toddler daughter on litter-strewn Bali 'dream beach' to 最高潮の場面 the shocking level of 汚染

  • Bali's plastic 苦境 最高潮の場面d when Darren 冷静な／正味の filmed daughter playing game
  • 'Dream Beach' on Lembongan Island has been spoiled by litter washing up on it
  • Family, from Brighton, couldn't go in sea because waters were filled with rubbish

By Connor Boyd

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This is the heartbreaking moment a father and his three-year-old daughter played a game of 'find the plastic' on a picturesque Bali spoiled by shocking 量s of litter.

Darren 冷静な／正味の, 34, was with his young family on a stretch of sand known as Dream Beach on Lembongan Island, just off the coast of Bali, on April 8.

Mr 冷静な／正味の, from Brighton, was on holiday in the 楽園 island area with his wife Lozzie, 31, daughter Bowie, 老年の three, and one-year-old Casper.?

Bowie Cool, three, brings her father a plastic bottle that had washed up on Dream Beach in Bali

Bowie 冷静な／正味の, three, brings her father a plastic 瓶／封じ込める that had washed up on Dream Beach in Bali

Her father Darren filmed the game to highlight the shocking levels of pollution on the picturesque island's shores

Her father Darren filmed the game to 最高潮の場面 the shocking levels of 汚染 on the picturesque island's shores

His wife?Lozzie Cool, 31, strolls along the paradise beach which is plagued with pollution

His wife?Lozzie 冷静な／正味の, 31, strolls along the 楽園 beach which is 疫病／悩ますd with 汚染

But the couple couldn't believe their 注目する，もくろむs when they discovered the beach had been piled high with plastic litter.

As the father? and his family walked along the sands they 設立する everyt hing from 瓶／封じ込めるs and flip-flops, to a bucket and spade and toy cars for Casper to play with.

Mr 冷静な／正味の said he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to film just how bad things appeared to be getting on the island and so he played a game with his daughter.

The family, from Brighton,? couldn't even go in the sea because waters were filled with rubbish

The family, from Brighton,? couldn't even go in the sea because waters were filled with rubbish?

They found everything from bottles and flip-flops, to a bucket and spade and toy cars along the sandy beach

They 設立する everything from 瓶／封じ込めるs and flip-flops, to a bucket and spade and toy cars along the sandy beach

In the （映画の）フィート数, the father and his wife Lozzie ask Bowie to find a number of items in the sand, 含むing a 瓶／封じ込める, cup, and some yellow or blue plastic.

It takes the youngster just seconds to find them all.

Mr 冷静な／正味の said: 'You go up to a 場所 that is called Dream Beach, where they are selling it as this biggest, nicest, most beautiful beach… and then it's just an 絶対の rubbish 捨てる.

'The sea is riddled with plastic, you can't even go 近づく it because you don't know what is going to 攻撃する，衝突する you.

The Cool family: Father Darren, 34, mother Lozzie, 31, with their daughter Bowie, aged three and one-year-old Casper

The 冷静な／正味の family: Father Darren, 34, mother Lozzie, 31, with their daughter Bowie, 老年の three and one-year-old Casper

It took little?Bowie just seconds to find blue and yellow plastic as part of the game she played with her father

It took little?Bowie just seconds to find blue and yellow plastic as part of the game she played with her father

'I trod on some broken glass and with my kids we had to be careful with where they were going, it got to the point we thought 'sod this' let's just go 支援する to the hotel and get in the pool where it's safer.

'It's such a shame, I had this jaw-dropping moment when we saw the beach from a distance thinking how amazing it looked, and then when you see it の近くに up it's really shocking.

'My wife walked up the beach to see how many discarded flip flops she could 選ぶ up in a minute and I think she grabbed about fifteen of them. She had armfuls of them.

A plastic bottle was one of the thousands of bits of plastic litter to wash up on the island's shores

A plastic 瓶／封じ込める was one of the thousands of bits of plastic litter to wash up on the island's shores

'The 地元のs there sadly don't see m to care. I saw someone throw a 瓶／封じ込める in the sea and I said 'why are you doing that?' and he said 'it doesn't 事柄, the sea is 廃虚d anyway'.'

Bali, in Indonesia, has become a go-to 目的地 for Brits 捜し出すing 熱帯の 日光 at affordable prices, but the tiny 群島 appears to be struggling with waste 管理／経営.

Across Indonesia plastic waste has become a 大規模な problem, last year the army was called in to scoop tonnes of plastic out from the main river in the country's third biggest city Bandung.

Indonesia is second only to 中国 in a （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する of the world's largest contributors to plastic in the oceans. But this month the 政府 of the island nation 発表するd it planned to 減ずる plastic 破片 by 70 パーセント by 2025.

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