{"id":56473,"date":"2018-01-25T06:27:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T06:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=56473"},"modified":"2018-01-25T06:27:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T06:27:10","slug":"local-people-come-together-for-beach-clean-up-in-mumbai-to-tackle-the-plastic-waste-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/01\/25\/local-people-come-together-for-beach-clean-up-in-mumbai-to-tackle-the-plastic-waste-menace\/","title":{"rendered":"Local people come together for beach clean-up in Mumbai to tackle the plastic waste menace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Versova Beach in Mumbai, India has never looked cleaner &#8211; and it is due to the efforts of local people, including children, who have undertaken the task of cleaning a\u00a03-kilometer stretch of the beach every weekend. The good samaritans have already collected\u00a0more than 12,000 tonnes of plastic waste that gets washed ashore since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>While considerable areas of the beach are still polluted by plastic, the Sunday afternoon clean-ups have achieved a lot: once plastic reached waist-high, now couples stroll and children can play cricket on the shore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are clearing up the mess created by our parents,\u201d 15-year-old Titiksha Kabra told Sky News.\u00a0\u201cIf we don\u2019t want our generation to face the problem of plastic, we have to come here and clean it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read full news here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/jan\/24\/local-people-tackle-tide-of-beach-plastic-in-mumbai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/jan\/24\/local-people-tackle-tide-of-beach-plastic-in-mumbai<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Versova Beach in Mumbai, India has never looked cleaner &#8211; and it is due to the efforts of local people, including children, who have undertaken the task of cleaning a\u00a03-kilometer stretch of the beach every weekend. The good samaritans have already collected\u00a0more than 12,000 tonnes of plastic waste that gets washed ashore since 2015. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}