 Country road, her dad did it, her brother did it, oh, he did it, the police officer did it, hey, sabela, how's your mother? Hey, welcome back to our stupid reaction video, this is Corbin. I am not John Denver, thank goodness, and you can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Twitter, for more juicy content. It's so juicy. Thank you for your disembodied vocal every single time. Excuse me, you need to stop smoking those unfiltered camels. I need a lozenge. What are we doing, Rick? Like I know? Hell if I know, that's an elephant and a rhino. I was good. Yeah, we've all heard that. Today we're reacting to a video. A video? Yeah, a music video. It's called, no, it's called a man cleaning 9,000 tons of trash from the Mumbai beaches. So it's a, read this. There was 9,000 tons of trash on the Mumbai beaches. I suppose so, read this. This one? This one. This one. Afraj Shah, a lawyer, took to the beaches of Mumbai and began the initiative to clean 9,000 tons of trash from Mumbai's Verzhova beach. That's a lot of trash. Yeah. Your mother must be there. That's like, I need a freaking calculator, man. What, to type in 9,000? Multiplying 9,000 times 2,000. Hold on, seven. It's a lot. Oh, thanks, Rick. Here we go. This is not a landfill. This was Verzhova beach in Mumbai, India, a little over three years ago. It was covered in over 6,000 tons of trash. That's what it looks like. After what the United Nations called the world's largest beach cleanup, this is Verzhova beach today. It was the movement started and led one man, Afro's Shah. How did it get that way? That's awesome. My name is Afro Shah. I'm a lawyer by profession, and I love oceans. In October of 2015, Verzhova beach was little more than a dumping ground on the west coast of Mumbai. There were five and a half feet of plastic. And when you see so much plastic that pours to the ocean, it's scary. It's very scary. We have devastated the health of the ocean. Garbage pile up either on land or an ocean is a big issue, not only in India but all over the world. Yeah, absolutely. So Afro's took matters into his own hands. He started picking up the trash himself. I spent my childhood here and I used to play here and the beach used to be very, very clean. For me, it was purely simple. It had to be my personal journey. That's awesome. When I told myself it would be difficult for a single man to do it, so I said, why not take this personal journey to Athens? I provoked others to join in and eventually they did join in. Since 2015, every weekend, hundreds of volunteers join Afro's to pick up the trash that has been strewn along a two-mile stretch of the beach. And the volunteer work continues today. We have been cleaning for past 112 weeks now and it's almost 9 million kgs of plastic and filter from the ocean. Beach cleaning is one of the biggest preventive actions to prevent these plastic going into the beach. This is minimum we can do. Through the use of trucks, bulldozers, buckets, whatever people can use, the beach has slowly been picked up. But the issue is more than just the beach. It's about the mindset of people. Yeah, so how did they get that way in the first place? So, apart from the beach cleanup, Afro's also works with local communities to help educate them on recycling and proper trash disposal. That's awesome. We go to coastal communities where, you know, the lecturing happens, stopping them. I go to people's garbage, I tell them, show me. Then I tell them how to segregate, how to handle plastic. This is the first creek which is entering into the ocean from here. I'm proud that I'm connecting with people. I'm connecting with nature. That gets a very big sense of pride in my heart, you know. This problem of pollution is created by us. We have lost the sense of belonging to our planet, into our ocean. A lot of people ask me, Afro, how long are you going to clean? The day we say that this ocean is mine and it has to be spick and stand, we'll not ask this question. In fact, we'll go and provoke others to do what I'm doing. We are in for a long haul. And every citizen on this planet must be in for a long haul. Yes. Start doing your bit. There is no planet B. That's fantastic. Yeah, well, number one, that's incredible. Good for that guy. And also, I'm so glad he's doing that because, yeah, then that's not obviously just an Indian problem. No. That is everywhere, all over the world, everywhere. If you guys didn't know, there is an absolutely ginormous, vast expanse of plastic waste floating in the Pacific Ocean that is creating its own weather. It's awful and changing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean. It's that massive, disgusting. So yeah, it's everybody of water. And the thing they did not cover, which they didn't necessarily, you know, it was just about him and getting people mobilized. Something I'm thinking about is what's going on with city government there that is potentially causing there to be no trash pickup to be taken somewhere else. Because one of the reasons you have mass piles up of garbage in places like that isn't just because people don't care. It's because they don't have anywhere else to put it. And there's no clean up from the city. I don't know where the garbage system is in India. Or maybe there is a dump, but they have no mode of transportation. So it's complex. Yeah, it's definitely not an easy issue, especially if it's in like an area with the slums, which is they're just house on house on house on house on house. No. So you're not going to have a dump. I mean, a dumpster close to you. So you're going to have to walk really far, which is one of the things like one of the things that I mean, the US has major trash issues for sure. But like they every person has stuff, a trash can, at least if you're in a house, not I don't know if there's in some different areas of the city. There might not be. Not downtown. Yeah, in the bad parts of downtown because I know we got some trashed alleys and yep, there's stuff like that. So it's a huge problem every but with something like I don't know if you know Disney they have like what is it a trash can with every 10 feet? Yeah, like in Disneyland and Disney World. I think they have a trash can within every 10 feet because they don't want anybody to hold on to something and be like, I know trash can so they throw it. And so they were like, we're going to put trash cans everywhere, which is one of the ways they can keep up there. Such a magical place is because there's no trash. Yeah. And if you've never been, I've never been to Disney World, I know you have but Disneyland is pretty much spotless. And I always have a ton of employees. Yeah. But yeah, I love this man for taking up this mantle of wanting to clean this because nobody else is doing it. Yeah. And governments can take forever to, you know, get moving. Yeah. And the one the other thing about that, this is there on with that trash harmed sea life. It harms turtles that harms like every it'll go out into the ocean. And but and the other thing as well is that if it looks like it is in in an area that would be considered slums, there's one of the other reasons aside from maybe the city not contributing when it needs the resources to get trash pickup is poverty and impoverished conditions contribute toward being depressed. And depressed people don't think to take care of things. They tend to just dump stuff everywhere because for them, it's why, you know. And it's my hope is this is not only cleaning up what's going on environmentally, which is huge. But my hope is that this kind of attention to the area and beautifying it is also helping lift the spirits of the people in the in the neighborhood. Yeah. So that's a beautiful story. I mean, I don't know if we'll have time, but I've been trying to like do a tree planting or a beach clean up or something whenever we come to Mumbai. I think that'd be awesome. It'd be a cool thing to do for a meetup, like to go out and do something. That'd be awesome. I would love that. I don't know if we'll have time because we have very limited time when we go, but maybe next time, if we can't do it this time, we'll see. I would love to do something like that. Yeah, I would too. But that was awesome. If you have more videos like this of inspiring people, please send them our way. And when you go to the beach, please don't harm the turtles. My favorite animal, sea turtle. Like of all time? Sea turtle. The sea turtle. The sea turtle. I did not know this about you. Always has been. Wow, they're awesome.