“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”– Paulo Coelho, author of The
Alchemist

I’ve always believe that the farthest and furthest a person can reach is determined by the
borders of his mind.

UN called it the biggest cleanup project in the world.

Our oceans are facing huge plastic problems. And if the oceans are in trouble then so are we.
What we throw away comes back to us one way or another. The ocean is our source of life and
we are slowly choking it with plastic

Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throw
away society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy

Whilst

Question is, how the beach become like that in the first place? You don't need
someone like Afroz if you can start from yourself and stop polluting the beach.

Body:

 Afroz Shah, 1

I disagree with the author saying 5 million kilograms of plastic were collected in
just three years. Because in the https://www.darpanmagazine.com/people/newsmakers/afroz-
shah-champion-of-the-earth/ it says that 15 million kilograms of plastic and filth was
collected from the 2.5 kilometre stretch of beach over a period of 21 months.
 More than 14 million tons of plastic land into the ocean every year and much of that
plastic ends up on beaches again.

Due to huge amounts of plastic waste delivered freshly from the ocean, Versova Beach in
Mumbai, India looked more like a seaside landfill than a beach.

fter seeing his childhood beach rolling in trash, one man decided to take action.

Meet Afroz Shah, the guy who cleaned the most polluted beach in all of India.
Helped by people he managed to inspire, Afroz removed 11 million pounds of trash in
just three years.
According to Bored Panda, not only has the beach become safe for swimmers and
vacationers, but turtles came back to the beach after 20 years.

For his amazing achievement, the United Nations awarded Afroz the “Champion of the
Earth” award.
Afroz, who’s a lawyer, started picking up trash alone, but soon he got two more helpers,
than another two, and before long, his action turned into the world’s largest beach
cleaning operation.
Hundreds of thousands of volunteers joined and started picking up trash with their own
hands. Soon the volunteers from India and all over the world started cleaning other
beaches, rivers, and canals in the area.

If you like Afroz’s work, share this good news with your friends and maybe they get
inspired to do the same.

Watch the video from Bored Panda:

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Landfills aren’t the only place that our waste is ending up. 8
million tons of plastic ends up in the ocean annually, and that number
is steadily increasing – it just about doubles every 10
years. Researchers estimate that by 2050, there will be more plastic in
the ocean than fish. Most of this plastic pollution comes from trash that
has been thrown away or left as litter, even from locations a good
distance from coastlines.
 You don’t need to leave a water bottle on the beach in order for it
to make its way into the ocean. Waste that has been disposed of can
still be picked up by wind or washed into waterways by rain. This trash
makes its way down inland rivers, drainage systems, and canals over
time. The ocean will be its final destination, where it will stay for a very
long time.
Plastic does not ever truly decompose. Instead, it gradually
breaks down into smaller pieces, called microplastics, over the course
of about 450 years. All of the plastic pollution in the ocean will
eventually become microplastic as the sun, waves and salt slowly
wear it down. Once they break apart, they are difficult to see and
impossible to remove. 70% will sink to the ocean floor, and the rest
end up trapped in currents. Strong ocean winds create circular
gyres that move litter throughout the ocean. Eventually, the currents
will bring the trash to the center of the gyre, where it will become
trapped in what is essentially a vortex. The Great Pacific Garbage
Patch, a huge floating trash dump, is at the center of one of these
gyres about halfway in between California and Hawaii. It’s estimated
that about 80,000 tons of trash is stuck in the patch with nowhere else
left to go.

Plastic isn’t the only problem. Even if plastic bottles are avoided, the
alternatives can present their own issues. Glass bottles, like those
commonly used for grab-and-go iced coffees, are costly
and complicated to recycle. Many facilities have completely ceased
glass recycling projects, and several cities and states have told their
citizens not to even bother putting glass in their recycling bins. Pieces
of broken glass in single-stream recycling can also contaminate other
items, preventing any of it from being recycled. Aluminum cans are
easy and cost-efficient to recycle, but more expensive to produce than
plastic, and are not as commonly used in lieu of plastic as a result.