The lawyer who cleaned 5 million kgs of trash from Versova beach

The lawyer who cleaned 5 million kgs of trash from Versova beach

Afroz Shah, a Mumbai lawyer, and ocean lover took it upon himself to do something about the disgusting filth that covered Versova beach for so long. In 2015, he started a cleanliness drive that soon snowballed into the biggest beach cleanup in the world. Local residents started chipping in, and the UN also sent in volunteers to help. Over 85 weeks, they managed to clean 5 million freakin’ kgs of garbage and plastic, changing the face of the beach in the process.

With the support from the United Nations and over 300 volunteers, he had been able to remove 5 million kgs of filth and trash from the beach since October 2015, when he first started the drive.