The Man Clearing 9,000 Tons of Trash From Mumbai’s Beaches
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ม.ค. 2018
- Over three years ago, Versova beach in Mumbai was little more than a dumping ground for garbage and waste. After witnessing the devastating impact the refuse was having on the ocean, Afroz Shah decided to take matters into his own hands. What started off as a single man’s mission to clean up his favorite childhood beach turned into the world’s largest beach cleanup initiative. As of today, Shah and hundreds of volunteers have cleaned up over nine million kilograms of plastic and waste, with hopes to expand their initiative to other beaches in the future.
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People used to make fun of him when started doing that. He was the only man cleaning all that dirt.
Hats off👏
Yeah, he was STUPID for cleaning the trash that OTHERS threw.
*STUPID* people made fun of him, that is.
it takes LOCALS to change their minds. I dont believe white men can come and do it alone. they need to see the change in mindset from a guy like him. Then they can learn and follow suit.
Man HUGE respect from me. We need guys like him more in my country, you people are very lucky to have someone like him.
People always make fun of intelligent ones coz they are stupid 😉
I live not too far from here. The beach was filthy.. And now after decades, the turtles came back to nest.. How very glorious!
@Buro Dackel Most certainly !
@Vom Saulus zum Paulus zurück What?
you should have helped him cleaning the beach rather than commenting
@ hela6208 You have to clue how happy I am to read that!!!!!
Please tell your countrymen to avoid throwing trash in the beach and have a proper disposal
This is a true hero, not NBA players. I cleaned up my local beach the other day and I plan to expand my efforts. Let’s take care of our planet.
Lol why you use the NBA
100% agree Jesse. Awful how people idolize people like NAH players. This man truly deserves massive respect.
@@truthseeker9975nba players have their own charities & philanthropic projects working to help young people and improve society. Dont dog when you dont have the full picture.
My husband laughs at me when he sees a bag of trash in my car. He says you stop on the side of the road again didn't you? Lol, well, I love God's earth and his nature! People, only the good ones!
Respect
I'm glad for people like you!
Who determines the good ones
@nin lat agree! I mean trash like plastic bottles, cups, fast food, ECT... I understand about the germs, and not knowing about other things. Thanks!
Yup my mom learned us to put papers from sweets and other stuf,in our pockets.
Not throwing garbage on the streets.
He is real son of a beach.
Ayy #SaySena. Make love to the beach
@@diptosarker810 Indeed. It has had the potential to be beautiful & captivating all this time & that is now & has been in recent years progress fulfilled.
😁😁😁
here is some quality comment i was looking for
XDaliborX No, son of a beach, a bit literally
Not gonna lie but this cleanup is hella satisfying
It motivated me to clean up my room
@@B-Man-69. Haha. So, how is the report
@@shivankagrawal9764 its going great. No more junk in my room.
You don't have to lie about it
Congrats !
I've been doing this on my own for 3 years now. Whenever I'm in the jungle or on a beach I always spend a little bit of time to pick the trash. I won't succeed alone. But I'm doing my part 😊
I know the feeling he got when he's doing it. It's amazing!
We all need more people like him in the world. If I was in Mumbai, I would volunteer my time to clean there too.
You don't have to be in Mumbai, I'm sure there are places near you where there's trash to be picked up. Maybe not in that huge quatity (thankfully) but surely there's beach, parks, forests, by the road side that could use your help. Search for local groups who organise clean ups or create them yourself.
u can do it anywhere, or even in a nearby beach, y’know.
We don't need more of him, we need to all BE him. I guess you're saying the same thing, but the point is, we're not going to be saved by one superman. He is not a superman. He's an ordinary guy, doing what WE ALL should be doing, regardless of where we are.
This man has found his purpose.
Chocolate Pie Thought provoking, thanks
@@imposterdoge shut up not rick
Y'all don't find the pun?
This is 1 of everyone's purpose!
@@ralphi3110 what!?
We need more men like Afroz Shah in the world.
we need everyone in the world to be like Afroz
Then be the one
NO. We need to be like him to have a wonderful world
@Proud Bangladeshi গর্বিত বাংলাদেশী hai bhogoban ar amader ki hoche ekhne iktu bol toh , prothom amader desh dek thik ache tar por onnoder bapare bol
@Proud Bangladeshi গর্বিত বাংলাদেশী First Look On Your Country
"start doing your bit, up your game"
Absolute legend, thank you kind sir for helping to save our oceans!
The journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. Thank you for your service, Afroz! ❤❤❤
If every single person on this planet were like him this world would 100% purified
only way to purify the world is with a crusade
Texas Gun *DEUS VULT*
Not as long as u breath in oxygen n breath out carbon dioxide
boi you do know what carbon dioxide is for right
fuckin plants bro
gimana sih :v
@@texasgun2731 yup good thing we started with jesus
" I Guess one man CAN make a difference! nuff said" -Stan Lee
Spider man
@@Azraeel11 No thats a knight rider thing david hasselhoff and kitt.
What an inspiring story. This is a similar issue we face here in the Pacific. Hats off to you sir.
How about a link where we can go find him and support his effort
Google his Name you will find his twitter / ig links
@@Mr_Unfazed0 thanks for that. I think this guy is a rockstar
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@@naakatube what
It’s a mammoth task he has taken and he is inspiration to entire world. What he wants from each of us is to think, where all we can stop using plastic in day to day life and even if we use, how responsibly we have that plastics for recycle.
There are 2 types of people:
1)The ones that only talk (Politicians,maybe me & us too?)
2)The ones that work (This man)
The slight difference between them makes the major difference!
And the ones who don't even care about anything
“Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice”. George Carlin
Actually Maharashtra govt supported him completely, the vehicles you see in the video were run by govt.
Afroz Shah's leadership & thousands of volunteers were involved but this wouldn't have been possible at all without state govt's help.
How about you? and me of course😏
@@FantasmaOlvidado1 you don't they got you by the balls
He's the man. I am so ashamed of me right now. What have I done for the planet? For India? Nothing except debating in forums and in school competitions. Just saying stuff doesn't work. Do it. Just do it.
Ricky Physical forums, not online. Just putting it out, anyway you are right
Debangsu Sarkar that's kinda depressing man, especially because I always wanted to be a debater to converse about stuff like this.
Sir Plato Butt Talking changes nothing. It just wastes your energy. Doing does. What have I done debating? Nothing. There are thinkers, then there are doers.
Debangsu Sarkar there are thinkers for a reason? Things get done through so much more than just one way?????
Debangsu Sarkar You’ve got it wrong, dude. The guy is a thinker and a doer, because he’s teaching the uneducated how to separate the trash. Also, you could use your brain to innovate new techniques to quicken the hours of labor, so don’t loose all hope on “thinking”.
02:01 Remember: "It's about the mindset of the people". You can change the world, if you change the mindset of the people. Now begin with your own mindset. --> Peace.
Thank you Afro, India needs more people like you, keep up the good work
The morning after the beach is clean, he recieves One for All.
i get that reference:)
DEKU
*EAT THIS*
Electric Fan PLUS ULTRA
Electric Fan
Damnit! I was 9 hours too late to comment that.
Yup..... November of 2016, I was one of those volunteers 😊
Sahil Sanil gr8 job☺️
Good job brother
How is the beach now?
my respect
So proud, thank you ☺️
He’s a man that deserves great respect. To love his beach so much he started by himself. This area should be proud to have him.
These are the kind of people that help restore faith in humanity!
I salute him. Heard he had to stop in the middle but happy to see him continue his mission. All the best sir !!!! You represent what India is
L Pika dude read properly I'm happy he is doing the work. Yes thanks to negligence of us our country is dirty. We are working towards it.
People are fcking stupid and finally learning their lesson? Meanwhile...there are other places where cleaning drives like this don't happen.
@@smolrider1623 what's wrong with you?!
MegaMaxclan Just racist or Pakistani.
@@anandjainishere I don't have to be racist or Pakistani to state the truth
God bless all volunteers
@@classonbread5757 Hey, don't be disrespectful kid, she's clearly a ninja
Wow, The guy sound so humble. Hats off to him and all other people who are contributing.
Tear and chills. Thank you Afroz - you are a hero. Lots of love from Canada.
Olive Ridley Turtles return to versova mumbai for hatching after 20 years after the cleaning,happiest day for all volunteers
Fantastic!
i hope we can convince our family and friends to recycle too
in canada its illegal to not sort your trash in to different bins
@@RealNiggaElijah what does that have to do with recycling
@@RealNiggaElijah lmfaaoooooo
@@RealNiggaElijah omggggggg
I don’t really like my comment but I had to because it was 666
Salute to u man....you proved "where there is a will, there is a way"
May god bless all life full of happiness !!
This is amazing! Every time i saw this beach it hurt my soul. Im so proud of him as a human being. I love the ocean. What a beautiful human...
He's a national hero and a saint.
don't exaggerate
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He absolutely is. He's helped people, animals and the planet.
I think India is a Blessed country and it will be forever but unfortunately people who live in India has no respect to their motherland.. Hope India will be more cleaner in future.. Instead of going after Gurus and others, indian people should join this amazing guy and get their country cleaned..
@anonymous "from the west" blabla. I live in Germany and we don't throw our trash in the ocean or in rivers. We use trashcans. It is either recycled or burned for energy. Here they even import trash for burning because we don't have enough in my city. NOWHERE in Europe does it look like in India. This is disgusting and it is not the fault of the west when people in India, Nepal etc. throw their trash away without thinking. For gods sake take some responsibility for your lives. Behave like adults. And if you complain about western lifestyle then change your life. Bye bye computer, smartphone, youtube. Hypocrite. Western lifestyle is also about loving forests, nature AND USING TRASHCANS (we have one bin for trash, one for plastic and pagaging, one for paper, one for electric devices and one for compost)!!! Most garbage in the oceans come from 5 rivers and they are all either in Asia or in Africa.
@@milotheblackboxer8915 go read some history books kid... Countries in the west like USA Canada or even UK dumps their trash in African countries
@hanselxy : stop blaming others. Self respecting people take actions, they don't put blame on others...
This is great to.watch. We need more poeple like him. Respect from China. We are all part of the mother earth.
Movements like this needs to be shared so they inspire other people! Congrats!
Sometimes it takes a great man to remind others that they can become great to....thanks Sir, your ocean is my ocean!!!
You say that because it is clean now.
Afroz Shah for Nobel Prize
Hell yeah ! ❤
YES PLEASE
Hell yes. Because its not at all easy to take up this kind of job and make people inspire to clean the beach especially in Mumbai because people are too ignorant and they don't even give a damn about anything except their lives. Hats off to him
Yes. Take back Obama's peace prize 🏆 and give it this guy.
This is truly, truly inspirational - but I'm very curious to know where the picked up garbage goes from there. That's useful information for when anyone else wants to start this journey.
Another beach xD
We need more dedicated people like you
God bless you very much for helping caring and loving 🥰 this planet 🌎 🙏🏻❣️❣️❣️🇨🇦
He's the REAL deshbhakt ,unlike other keyboard warriors who claim to be a 'deshbhakt'
@arv er Still , he's better than other keyboard warriors who claim to be doing a service to their country. And yes , what you said is true
@arv er Tum log as in kaun?
@arv er Fake/real ka certificate ab tujhse lein? Aur kab dee gaali army ko? Itana pyaar hai to Army join kar.
@arv er Gaaaaaaandu. I'm Indian.
@arv er He is serving his motherland by cleaning it up. This is the truest from of love for a country. Get your skewed perspective right which I am 100% sure you learned from BJP.
I don’t understand why people underrated these kind of job
If there weren’t these people, who would do it, who would
Why judges people when all they doing is for all of us !!!
Stfu idiot. Nobody here is judging them. Take your stupid comment somewhere else
Trust me. They’re not doing it for you! They’re are doing it for the environment and the planet.
He is actually an advocate.
you know the 20 bucks people have been giving to 4ocean should just go to this man.
Stfu
FANTASTIC! It warms my heart and gives me hope to see wonderful people putting in this effort. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for sharing this uplifting and awe-inspiring story. Massive respect to Afroz for his amazing work :D
Honourable man, well done. Need more people like him.
This is good. Yes. However, as they say, prevention is always better than cure. Yeah, the world must learn not to trash their home.
Afroz Sha, you have done a stupendous job by cleaning the beach. It is the responsibility of every citizen to join in hands with Afroz Sha. Govt should encourage him by awarding national award.
If we start minding our own waste then situation like this would have never come...... Hats off to Afroz Saha
He is a inspiration! 👏Best wishes from France 💖 💖
Thnx dear
I am so proud of this man,, i cryed...keep up good work.
Great Job!! ❤️ This story!! Our Earth needs more heros!!
Well done... The world needs few millions people like this guy and we might start revers the damage caused by humans....
your awesome ... I do the same here in Canada in Niagara region ... for the children and fish and birds mostly. look up ocean cleanup group Boyan Slat. love and peace
This is the most horrific and simultaneously heroic story I've ever seen. Far out!
If people ask you "What can just one person do to change the world?" show them this!
This man deserves to have a day celebrated in his honor. And good on the Desis too! I've never been to India, though I hear it's a tough country. So to see how all these people come together, it's a powerful message.
I believe there is also a man on an Island, somewhere in the Ganga, possibly in Bengal, who planted a tree every day of his life and now there is a jungle where once there was none.
Thank you, he is an inspiration, I pray others will follow
He is the real Indian. Hat's off to you brother. Allah bless you always! Ameen...!
🖕 allah
@@hellfire66683 what the heck is wrong with you
Who is allah
@@krzysztofsadelski2841 "There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad(the Prophet) is the messenger of Allah."
@Crestfire well apparently some aren't smart enough, anyone who's incredibly passionate about religion is an idiot
God bless you sir and I pray that millions join you. 😍💐💐
you should not pray passively, you should join him and make the action!
@@AndreasLindful she is blessing him for health , it's pretty neat
@@AndreasLindful you first dude
Bless this man. I’m in tears because of his humanity
Salute, brother for your efforts and everyone who got involved in this....
Consistency and effort can overcome even the most insurmountable task. I applaud the positive initiative and vision this man has taken to benefit his community and the world.
Salute to Afrooz Sir and their team.
you and your team is doing a excellent job and keep it up.
Love from PAKISTAN.
Arey Afroz hai afrooz nahi
Beautifully being human. Lots of respect and love from your neighbor. 🇵🇰❤👏
Howdy doo W-2 neighbour 🇮🇳
This man is a godsend! Kudos to him for doing this!
It always has to start somewhere. Blessings to you for being brave and doing something about it.
How can anyone dislike this video?
By clicking dislike button probably
Eshaan Rathi .. lol
Probably, they didn't get an answer to the question: «Where is all this garbage now?»
@@dhe-origjin In landfill
Some people just want to see world crumble. It’s a true fact but there are more positive people who want to see the world thrive and we should never let them overcome us. I use to not recycle because I use to think it wasn’t important but I’ve been recycling for a year now and it’s crazy how my trash can has less waste and my the recycle has more. Crazy. 🤯 and best thing of all, it’s not hard to figure out.
I still thinking of those who disliked this work. :(
Keep it up Afroz. Nobel cause, let next generation enjoy their life
Guy is a hero! Need to make people like this more famous
Great job man!!! One, then five, and then much more. We have to be united about pollution and solving it. Again, big 👏!!!!
I am very happy to hear that there are people like him. That’s make my day ☺️🌍
These guys need to be famous not that tik tok one. We are really ashamed that we don't deserve you. You deserve a locality of humanity
You know what
We need people like him we really do
Well done
Earth is our home if we don't look after
Who will
God Bless you all for helping him
And hope to stay clean ever after
😘
1:33
look at the orange shirt kid in the middle
he is so mad at plastic that he is destroying the pieces xD
I think he did orange justice on it
he's playing gulli danda with it..!!
Doing your bit to up the game. Proud of you Mr. Afroz Shah. Really appreciate your effort. Never blamed anyone even the government. Began all alone. Respect.
So beautiful to see such a movement we need more people like this 😍😍😍😍❤❤❤❤❤😍😍😍😍😍😍😍❤❤
Great job. Long live. Yours effort are marvellous. The countries as a whole should learn a lot from you.
In December 2017 The Municipal corporation of Mumbai have banned his team to clean the beach because the corporation thinks that this is not safe and there might be some negative reason because of which they working.
Right now he is still suspended to work on his initiative hope he gets the allowance in the future
reaaly?
oh no...
Municipality mindset needs cleaning
@natsu dragoneel search for it yourself wanker
As of March 2019, the clean ups have begun and moved on to a river too
This makes me very sad
The way that we treat our oceans
It's not only India
It has more in other country
Please do not use plactics
First things to do stop is to stop producing plastics this is the only way but how can a small person like me can do.You can clean all the plastics out but it still comes non stop from all the garbages that we do.
The electronic device you used to post this is mostly plastic ironically.
@@mysterybuyer3738 well mine is made of glass, aluminium and silicon. NOW COUNTER THAT!
It's not the using of plastics. It's the practice they have of just throwing garbage anywhere they want. He said it was FIVE FEET DEEP. That's a fortune in recycling. Even in India. The people also defecate on the beaches & streets. The MINDSET needs changing indeed.
Excellent and Divine job,
Hats off to this Unsung Hero,
Jai Hind.
Need soooooo much more of this people!
As a travel vlogger in India, i know this issue is massive not only in Mumbai, but all over the country. I hardly find decent patches of clean land do get my drone shots or any cinematics for that matter. I know that the country is so beautiful but is messed up by this frivolous attitude. The mind set needs to change. Amazing work Afroz
True. We gotta go to the countryside.
Never underestimate what one person can do. simply AMAZING!
God bless him 🙏💕
All the people who help each other to make a difference
Great work !! I am proud of this man!!
SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY BEACH!!!!!
*WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY BEACH!?*
Somebody touch my spaghet
It is from pewdiepie video
But can they do this?
Reuben Lee SOMEONE IS IN THISSA BEACH
Great Human
👍👏wow one mans dreams started and then the people’s starts helping to clean 🤝👏👍❤️
I come back to this story since the young man's determination to clean that beach is admirable. Afroz is definitely right: there won't be change unless the mindset of the people change. I hope after 5 years, they kept the beach clean and continue to educate the new generation to respect the land.
That's nice of him but there was an article about when there has been people threatening the volunteers. Plus that the lawyer guy says that the government was not doing their job of waste management. So the lawyer guy stops the cleanup, hoping to encourage the prevention of waste instead of just cleaning up the aftermath.
scroll.in/latest/858992/days-after-mumbai-lawyer-calls-of-cleanup-drive-at-versova-beach-centre-and-cm-offer-support
I think it's a good stance from him since there is no follow-up action from the government as he mentioned in the article and I guess he does not want his cleaning up efforts are taken for granted. Plus, in the video, they mentioned about how he wanted to change the mindset of people as well instead of just keep on cleaning the beach.
Good add the the story.
I was questioning when he went into the slum trying to get them to separate their plastics, like these people have no waste management services telling them about separating plastics won't solve anything in a community that's overflowing with garbage.
1:48 *This is the minimum we can do.*
Damn.
Great job sir. No one take the responsibility to do this but u took great step to aware people thanks
Let us please appreciate all the men and women working here to make it clean. It's a whole unit. And each one of them is a real life saviour.
Thank you ✌
Truly inspirational to me being an environmentalist, I recycle, compost, avoid plastic, clean up whatever trash I see flying around but this....
Thank you Afroz for cleaning the beach and making the environment clean and safe for everyone. 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thousand of this beautiful man... in every country.... we had to save our planet from waste....
You have inspired thousands all over the globe sir...🇿🇦
Man... I need to do this do... I wanna do something that contribute something to the mankind and earth.. this guy is inspiration
Then do it
Start like I did, when you go for a walk pick up some rubbish, one person can change the World, we can lead by example, we are all responsible for this planet 😁
Very good hearted man, think for the world.
God bless you & all you companion serving the Nature
Bless his heart...The Power of One!
Amazing what one person can do when you set your mind to it.
I would also make recycling mandatory for every individual & household.
It's the least we can do! ✌️