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From 4m36s of <https://youtu.be/N70t8hQCcPI?t=276>, the speaker says

> ゴミがたくさん流されてきました

This apparently translates to "A lot of trashed was washed up."

My question is why 流す is being used here instead of 流れる? 流れる is an
intransitive verb, and here the subject of the sentence is "trash". So
wouldn't that be the better choice?

On the other hand, 流す is transitive. So we're expecting the subject to act
upon some object (を). But here the subject of the sentence is ゴミ, which isn't
acting upon anything in the sentence (no を marked nouns).
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Why is 流す used in ゴミがたくさん流されてきました instead of 流れる?
First of all, the transitive verb 流す is used in the passive here. So ゴミ being
the subject is totally expected. ゴミを流す is transformed into ゴミが流される.

As for 流れる, you can also use it.

> ゴミがたくさん流れてきました。

This is totally fine as an objective description. It doesn’t mean the speaker
is happy about the situation.

The passive form is used here because the trash is seen as a passive object.
It was “washed up” by the waves.
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