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 amounts of litter.

Darren Cool, 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 Cool, from Brighton, was on holiday in the paradise island area with his wife Lozzie, 31, daughter Bowie, aged three, and one-year-old Casper.

Bowie Cool, three, brings her father a plastic bottle 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

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

But the couple couldn't believe their eyes when they discovered the beach had been piled high with plastic litter.

As the father and his family walked along the sands they found everything from bottles and flip-flops, to a bucket and spade and toy cars for Casper to play with.

Mr Cool said he wanted 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

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

In the footage, the father and his wife Lozzie ask Bowie to find a number of items in the sand, including a bottle, cup, and some yellow or blue plastic.

It takes the youngster just seconds to find them all.

Mr Cool said: 'You go up to a location that is called Dream Beach, where they are selling it as this biggest, nicest, most beautiful beach… and then it's just an absolute rubbish dump.

'The sea is riddled with plastic, you can't even go near it because you don't know what is going to hit you.

The Cool family: Father Darren, 34, mother Lozzie, 31, with their daughter Bowie, aged 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

'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 back 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 close up it's really shocking.

'My wife walked up the beach to see how many discarded flip flops she could pick 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

'The locals there sadly don't seem to care. I saw someone throw a bottle in the sea and I said 'why are you doing that?' and he said 'it doesn't matter, the sea is ruined anyway'.'

Bali, in Indonesia, has become a go-to destination for Brits seeking tropical sunshine at affordable prices, but the tiny archipelago appears to be struggling with waste management.

Across Indonesia plastic waste has become a massive 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 China in a table of the world's largest contributors to plastic in the oceans. But this month the government of the island nation announced it planned to reduce plastic debris by 70 percent by 2025.