Bali has confirmed that through the monsoon season to date, over 3,000 tonnes of ocean debris and trash have been cleared from the island’s most popular tourist beaches.
During the monsoon season, from late November to early April, tides of trash land upon Bali’s southern coast almost every day.
The Badung Regency Government has confirmed that the tides of plastic that have been landed on Bali’s beaches have started to subside. Nevertheless, with monsoon season not yet over, the Environmental and Sanitation Agency is braced and ready for further tides of plastic waste at any time.
So far this season the Environmental and Sanitation Agency (LHK) has cleared over 3,100 tonnes of waste from the beaches along the Badung Regency Coast.
Badung Regency is Bali’s most popular region for tourism, home to resorts like Uluwatu, Jimbaran, Kuta, Legian, Seminyak, and Canggu.
Speaking to reporters the Coordinator of Marine Waste Detection and Evacuation of the Badung LHK Service, Made Gede Dwipayana, explained “Although the amount of waste has subsided, we at the Badung Regency LHK Service are still on standby in the field because in general, the season for marine waste in the western coast has stopped completely in April. In fact, the last time seaweed appeared.”
He shared “In general, the condition of the entire west coast from Cemagi to Pecatu is still hit by waste shipments with a thin volume. Most of the waste is in the form of twigs and plastic.” In tourist terms, he referred to the stretch of coast that runs from Uluwatu all the way through to Canggu and Seseh. He confirmed that the majority of the waste is made up of plastic and driftwood.
Dwipayana added “Only Kedonganan and Jimbaran Beaches are still experiencing significant amounts of waste compared to other beaches in Badung. However, the condition has declined.”
He confirmed that the worst affected beaches in 2025 are the same beaches that are typically worst hit by tides of plastic waste, namely Kedonganan, and Jimbaran. Over 700 trucks worth of waste have been removed from Kedonganan and Jimbaran over the last few months, with more gathering trash every day.
Over in Seminyak, Legian, and Kuta, up to 30 trucks a day are filled with ocean debris that is sorted and taken to recycling depots or landfills.
Throughout the Badung Regency area 12 tippers, diggers, and loaders are on standby to tackle the trash mountains, along with 500 staff from the Badung Environmental and Sanitation Agency.
Though it has been confirmed that the tides are turning as the monsoon season starts to come to a close, there is still a high chance that tourists will encounter trash on beaches like Kedonganan and Jimbaran, even Seminyak, Legian, and Kuta too.
Though teams from the Badung Environmental and Sanitation Agency start clean-up operations in the very early morning and are usually finished cleaning the beaches by 10 am, tourists who wish to have a nearly guaranteed trash-free beach in Bali at this time of year, need to look a little off path from Bali’s most in-demand destinations.
There are classic Bali coastal resorts that are seldom hit with tides of plastic waste, Sanur and Nusa Dua to be precise.
Sitting on the opposite side of the Bukit Peninsula, the direction of the tides does not pull in ocean debris to these areas. Sanur is known as Bali’s OG coastal retreat and Nusa Dua is Bali’s most luxurious resort area, home to the highest concentration of five-star hotels on the island.
Heading a little more off-path, achieving both trash-free and crowd-free beaches, holidaymakers can venture to coastal hangouts in East Bali, like Amed and Candidasa, or travel northward to Lovina or Pemuteran for a more low-key beach getaway.
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