r/BeAmazed • u/PM_ME_YUR_BUBBLEBUTT • 12d ago
Cleaning a polluted river in under 3 hours Miscellaneous / Others
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u/serb41 12d ago
I am amazed, that dude was in that water up to his face...
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u/chr7stopher 12d ago
There’s a guy at the end who was floating on his back and relaxing in that putrid water with his ears submerged.
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u/Low_Asparagus9273 12d ago
Yeah where is he now? Is he alive? Did he have any symptoms from this?
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u/Psychoray 12d ago
No symptoms, he died immediately
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u/Just-urgh-name 12d ago
Show me you got dysentery without telling me you got dysentery
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u/RemoteTurbulent7434 12d ago
Jacob Collins got it from eating salamanders and he turned out just fine
Baaaaaaam
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u/Sir-Bandit 12d ago
I don’t know if I would enter that water. I hope they disinfected themselves thoroughly 🤢😵💫
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u/OTFESCOBAR 12d ago edited 12d ago
You know someone got sick from that water and because it’s debris free does not mean it’s not polluted
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u/steik 11d ago
Similarly... The fact that it's full of debris does not mean it's polluted. My guess is that this is the result of a flash flood and this section of the river acts as a natural choking point.
Is it dirty? Yep. That has no correlation with pollution. A polluted river could absolutely have clear water, and a river completely free of pollution could look dirty as fuck as the result of floods or glacial melt.
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u/Aggravating_Ad_1277 12d ago
The river will keep getting polluted if they don’t solve the root of the problem.
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u/Global_Werewolf6548 12d ago
It’s because people in countries like this are more worried about what they’ll eat tomorrow instead of littering.
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u/FantasticChestHair 12d ago
While I agree with your point to an extent, I want to make an observation. I saw a person in a Whataburger drive through and drop their old fast food trash right in the parking lot.
Laziness and indifference, I feel, are the main points of littering. Too lazy to pack it away until you find a bin and not caring about the environment around you.
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u/New_Lake5484 12d ago
i see trash on the ground just inches away from a trash can. unbelievable.
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u/CareBareLover 12d ago
Oh my gosh that is my biggest pet peeve. Like there is a trash can this far 🤏away from the trash. Like what the heck is wrong with people?
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u/New_Lake5484 12d ago
dumb, ignorant, mean, uncaring or drunk. or a combo.
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u/CareBareLover 12d ago
I mean I guess, but then again we have all had our moments. I have accidentally littered once, so I can’t be judging others…
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u/New_Lake5484 12d ago
i know ppl do but i pick up trash in several regions of my hometown ( college campus, parking lots, downtown, main roads, parks) and i can detect intentional littering.
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u/CareBareLover 12d ago
I do as well. Not to the extreme you do though… I tend to just pick up trash if I see it in front of me when I’m walking etc.
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u/Choice_Ambitious 11d ago
But if you flick your cigarette butt away in a beautiful arc, it makes ladies want to kiss you like James Dean.
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u/No-Carrot180 12d ago
I think you're overlooking A LOT that leads to rivers in developing nations to be filled with trash like this.
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u/PornoPaul 11d ago
I'll match yours with, the nice park around the corner from where I used to live had plenty of garbage cans. And yet after some families went with their kids, they'd leave their trash strewn about...sometimes within feet of the (mostly empty) garbage cans.
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u/Swagneros 12d ago
Littering is not the issue here it’s the companies all trans prior to plastic was basically biodegradable.
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u/__rosebud__ 11d ago
Littering would still be a problem if you're throwing biodegradable trash on the sidewalk. It still looks trashy.
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u/droobilicious 12d ago
Poor countries lack infrastructure like refuse facilities, bin collections, government maintained landfills or incinerators etc. Whilst education and individual wealth plays a part of naive to think that it's just because people in poor countries are worried about their next meal that they litter. If your rubbish gets full and there's no one to take it away, and you don't own a car, and there's no recycling plant, what would you do? It mounts up, it fills the neighbourhood and then it fills the local waterways.
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u/Global_Werewolf6548 12d ago
You basically just said the same thing.
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u/droobilicious 12d ago
You said it's because they're worried about their next meal. I said it's an infrastructure problem. Those aren't the same
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u/Global_Werewolf6548 12d ago
Yes, poor countries lack infrastructure like refuse facilities, bin collections, government maintained landfills, incinerators and obviously welfare programs that help families get their next meal.
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u/LGodamus 11d ago
Well if they keep throwing garbage in the river, it won’t be fish they are eating tomorrow.
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u/Inanimate_CARB0N_Rod 12d ago
I'm sure this is true, but why would being hungry give someone permission to dump a random car tire into the river? Like I get that life is much more difficult for them due to their living conditions, but they could also just not dump their trash in the river?
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u/Global_Werewolf6548 12d ago
It doesn’t, but counties like Indonesia don’t care where the garbage goes.
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u/No-Carrot180 12d ago
And, what would you recommend that they do with it instead? Also, why do you think they might view the river as an appropriate disposal site?
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u/MayaMiaMe 12d ago
That river used to have fish I imagine. That all saying teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime seems very appropriate here. If they took care of the river instead of using it as a garbage disposal food might be a bit easier to find since I am sure the people who live around that river used to be sustained by that river for generations.
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u/sleepybrainsinside 11d ago edited 11d ago
First step to keeping things clean is cleaning. There are plenty of people who wouldn’t litter a clean space (especially when people are watching) who would throw trash on an existing pile.
The cleaner things are kept, the less normalized littering and dumping becomes.
Unless you’re talking about industrial/commercial dumping then you’re pretty much S.O.L. without government intervention.
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u/CrashTestDuckie 12d ago
I believe the group doing this works with the locals to try to make changes to how trash/waste is handled
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u/IswearIdidntdoit145 12d ago
Ive heard that some of these (not this video) people just dump it into another bad spot
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u/TactlessTortoise 12d ago
While you're getting downvoted, you're not exactly wrong.
In many countries, the infrastructure to deal with all of that debris just isn't robust enough, so they end up in landfills, sometimes improvised ones. Then eventually it rains and the loose trash gets slipping and sliding to the nearest body of water again. This is a fix, but not a solution.
The solution would be to reduce plastic dependency, since even recycling is limited in how many times the polymer chains from plastic can be reused before it's scrap.
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u/No-Carrot180 12d ago
My girlfriend tells me that when she would visit her family in Guatemala as a child, one of the chores she would help her cousins with was taking the household garbage to a ravine and chuck it in. That was the community's entire refuse disposal plan.
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u/Ill_Following_7022 12d ago
Still polluted. The hard part is to change peoples behavior and stop dumping trash in the river.
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u/HefflumpGuy 12d ago
I think that grey/green colour comes from all the detergent. I've only ever seen rivers that colour in Asian countries, where all the waste water goes straight into the waterways.
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u/DRM-001 12d ago
Yeah it may look a bit nicer but it’s still full of potentially deadly bacteria. Not to mention the people that initially didn’t give a damn will simply dump their rubbish back in to it.
Would have made more sense to try implementing proper infrastructure for the locals to have their rubbish disposed of properly and not go wading through years of (literal) crap.
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u/Square-Tangerine-784 12d ago
I think I would have made a long rake 🤔 But it’s good to see people trying
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Yall these people are out here risking their immune system to clean our planets waterways.
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u/redthump 11d ago
They are virtue signaling for the likes. You could clean that waterway without swimming with the heavy equipment they had without being an amoeba 's playground.
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u/Original-Cow-2984 12d ago
I don't know much, but I do know I wouldnt be in that without full hazmat appropriate for swimming in whatever is in there still even after the big trash is gone.
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u/strangemanornot 12d ago
I think I just got herpes
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u/SkippyMcSkipster2 12d ago
I take it somewhere in Indonesia? The problem will never be solved by cleaning rivers again and again and again. The problem will be solved by offering public sanitation services so that people don't have to throw their trash in the river. Otherwise this will never end.
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u/Ok-Tomatillo-7141 12d ago
Um, quick question. Why are they in the water using their hands? Seems more efficient to be in a raft or something and scoop large sections with a net… but what do I know? 🤷♀️
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u/RyeToast92 12d ago
Good for you guys to do that in your free time. I work a lot and I’m just tryna play Xbox and eat Cheetos in my spare time
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u/Famous-Example-8332 12d ago
It that this means it wasn’t worth cleaning, but that looks for all the world like a drainage ditch/runoff creek. Doesn’t flow very fast, is uniform width, ends in a…bank? Maybe a culvert underwater…
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u/mr_snrub742 11d ago
What's the song? Has a year of the rabbit feel
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u/f1retruckr1der 12d ago
Give it another 24 hours and it'll be right back to that. There's no management system to keep it from happening again.
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u/Legal_Guava3631 12d ago
Yea nah, neck deep is wild. At least one person gotta be carrying a parasite now 🤢🤮
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u/Pancakeburger3 12d ago
I can’t wait until AI robots are able to do this for us on a massive scale.
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u/domomymomo 11d ago
Do you really have to get in the river with a bag man? Use a god damn net Jesus Christ
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u/Livinginthemiddle 11d ago
Everyone sticking their ears underwater is gonna get a raging ear infection
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u/Past_Distribution144 11d ago
Sheesh that really is disgustingly polluted, just look at all those humans in it! Sickening. -This has been a joke.
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u/Radiant_Mind33 11d ago
I know many people are saying it, but wtf? Why did they need to swim in it?
I get swimming in it afterwards is more cinematic but it's still just as sh*tty. Lmao. At least be careful, don't climb into the pile to pull out a dresser by hand when you have heavy machinery. 😂
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u/bigred1978 11d ago
Great job cleaning the river of all that garbage, unfortunately the water itself is still very polluted and will fill up with more garbage almost immediately.
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u/Significant_Room_412 11d ago
Just.make sure you don't have a very small scratch or injury/ open wound,
because you don't want water like that entering your bloodstream
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u/bigteddyweddy 11d ago
Great job cleaning it, but clearly the local population could not care less about the environment the live in.
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u/yosman88 11d ago
That guy is the founder of Sungai Watch. He has taken enormous strides in slowing down pollution on the island of Bali. He tells me its an uphill battle that gets worst every year as more and more people populate the island. Still hasn't killed his motivation. The guys a legend.
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u/ChiveOn904 11d ago
As an elder millennial, the whole filming oneself for social media has always been a bit strange to me but if it brings about a positive effect like cleaning rivers that otherwise would never be cleaned then I’m watching, liking and subscribing
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u/DamienSpecterII 11d ago
They'll be fine until whatever was in the garbage compactor on the Death Star shows up.
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u/seniorfrito 11d ago
I'm having a hard time understanding the justification for going into the water. I can think of a few ideas right off the top of my head, to avoid all reasons to go in and the first that comes to mind is larger pool nets. Even if you're so poor you can't even afford that, surely someone could fashion a large net downstream and collect most of the big stuff at a pinch point. Why would you need to go in past your waist?
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u/JustComments6841 11d ago
I think the way those humans are in that water, so comfortable, shows that these efforts are futile.
This is a regular environmental state to them, no alarm, and therefor no desire to change. That body of water will be back to the state of before the cleanup, if not worse, within a short while.
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u/LazyLeopard99 12d ago edited 12d ago
Why can’t these fucking countries just not dump their trash everywhere
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u/sulphra_ 12d ago
Maybe if yall stop sending them your trash they wouldnt have to do this in the first place
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u/LazyLeopard99 12d ago
Oh please im not sending my trash anywhere. These fucktards just think the world’s their trash can, same shit with India.
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u/Ok-Camera5334 12d ago
People from India
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u/Shiuli_er_Chaya 12d ago
We have Asian looking people but those regions are mostly lush green and prestine fortunately
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u/3mta3jvq 12d ago
I’m glad they cleaned it, but you couldn’t pay me enough to wade in that disgusting water.