1 Year, 1,500 People, 3 Million Tons Of Trash. How Versova Beach Was Saved | Read

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Garbage and more garbage, lining a strip of beach: It was this view from their window that pushed Afroz Shah and his neighbour Harbansh Mathur to do something about it. On Sunday much of the sand is visible on one stretch of the Versova beach in the western suburbs of Mumbai - the result of a year-long community effort that has drawn the attention of the United Nations.

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