Plastic pollution is a result of severe policy neglect at the national and local level for decades, as well as an increasing culture of single use plastics. There are many individuals such as Afroz Shah organizing beach clean ups year after year to maintain beaches in Mumbai. In such situations who is responsible for taking care of the mess? The people who create the mess or the people who have been chosen to fix these problems, but haven't?
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I agree with the previous comment, governments should definitely play the biggest rule when it comes to pollution from littering and stronger fines and enforcement can act as a great financial incentive for people to litter less. Nevertheless, I also thing that education in schools regarding the littering is essential. I'm not sure how it is in Mumbai, but in my school we did learn a bit about the effects of littering and there were quite a few beach cleanups organized. But in retrospect I think we weren't taught enough about the larger scale issue of plastic pollution and how they can also impact humans. So I think it's important that teachers are more mindful about how they talk to students about these matters so that the students themselves will carry forth the habit of cleaning up after themselves and also removing trash when they see it in nature.