Article 3E5KC Local people tackle tide of beach plastic in Mumbai

Local people tackle tide of beach plastic in Mumbai

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Juliette Jowit
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Clean-up has collected more than 12,000 tonnes of plastic since 2015

A beach in Mumbai is looking much cleaner thanks to the efforts of local people to remove a tide of plastic waste that appears on the shore.

A regular group of people, including children, use equipment donated by Bollywood stars to scour a 3km stretch of Versova beach every weekend, and have collected more than 12,000 tonnes of plastic since 2015.

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