According to sources in just over 100 weekends environmentally conscious citizens cleaned a Mumbai beach of 9 million kg of plastic which was being washed ashore at high tide. It was huge enough for the municipality not to be able to carry it away to the landfills.



Meanwhile it is not the tale of one beach in Mumbai plastic is being washed ashore almost everywhere because plastic is being discarded with abandoned. Further there are reports of islands of plastic, their thickness yet to be precisely determined, in the major oceans. Currently, it is found that plastic is decomposing to an extent that they are impregnating themselves in to human bodies.

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Studies have revealed that the world has produced 9 billion tonnes of plastic since 1950s, of which barely 9% has been recycled.  The people should be careful with its use, including how it is brought into human use, and put a value to it instead of something to be carelessly abandoned for nature to deal with. 


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