Kelly Slater

I don't jump on every bandwagon around climate change and that kind of stuff, but it's really clear.

I think we can all easily agree, because there's a lot of things where people don't agree on certain things, but we can all agree that there's a lot of plastic pollution in the ocean and all over the place.

Yeah, that stuff can be...

debated back and forth but when you see an ocean full of plastic and then the wind changes and it all washed up on the beach when the season changes and it's disgusting and you literally can't even walk on the beach that's when when everyone needs to get together and go okay we need a solution for this yeah and you wonder where all that comes from it's like are we just throwing trash into the ocean or is it boats throwing it overboard no a lot of it um

Well, in that particular situation, the Balinese like to say it's all the Javanese.

It's somebody else.

And it's all coming from Java.

But I think it's just that my friend in Bali explained it to me probably best.

And he said, look, when I was a little kid, we ate all our food wrapped in banana leaf.

and we would eat the food and then we'd throw the banana leaf out.

And eventually that turned into plastic and we just kind of kept throwing the plastic out.

And so a lot of waste... And there's not a really great infrastructure for garbage in some of these places.

So...

Through no fault of any individual person, it just tends to be that there's not the infrastructure for it.

And there's a lot of weird local politics around these things, even in small areas.

But it doesn't go to a central place to be processed right.

And on small islands, it's not easy to get rid of a bunch of plastic.

What do you do with it?

You create a mountain on a tiny island.

You got to bury it, I guess.