All it took to clean up this Mumbai beach was an aspirational 21-year-old who refused to turn a blind eye.
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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30So when we talk about beach viz, it started back in September 2017.
00:38I'd been to Bali, Indonesia in July 2017 with my friends.
00:43So when I came back to Mumbai it was the time of Ganesh Utsav and one day I was at the beach
00:48and the state in which I saw a beach was really disturbing and it made me think hard that
00:54why is there a difference between the beaches in Mumbai or India and the beaches abroad.
00:58So I was having a conversation with my mother regarding the same and she was of the opinion
01:02that if you think there is a problem, just go and find a solution to it instead of complaining
01:07about it.
01:19So for the first cleanup drive we were around 19 or 20 of us, all my schoolmates.
01:23So it was like a school reunion, we all met after 4 or 5 years and it was a great time.
01:29So I just asked them that okay, so let's do it again, let's come back next week and clean
01:33the beach again.
01:34And they approved and they really liked the whole idea and we came back again the next
01:38Sunday and cleaned the beach and it just kept going and going and so every Sunday, every
01:43Saturday Sunday we are at the beach now.
01:46It's been almost 2 years now, 91 weeks as I said.
02:28Each piece of plastic that we remove from the beach can save a life.