A lawyer and his neighbour start clearing a Mumbai beach
Mumbai lawyer Afroz Shah and an elderly neighbour began picking up rubbish on Versova Beach in 2015; weekly volunteer clean-ups grew into a long-running citizen movement.
One problem. Many solutions.
Ocean pollution
How do coastal communities clean their shores?
Different communities face the same problem and find different answers, shaped by their own resources, knowledge and context. No approach here is presented as the right one for everywhere.
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| Who | Where | How it started | Scale | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afroz Shah | Versova, Mumbai, India | In 2015 Afroz Shah and his 84-year-old neighbour, Harbansh Mathur, went down to Versova Beach and started picking up the plastic and rubbish themselves. | Neighbourhood | Documented |
What can they learn from one another? Read the "Copy this" section of each story to compare materials, costs and risks.