Mumbai's culture is a blend of traditional festivals, food, music, and theatres. The city offers a cosmopolitan and diverse lifestyle with a variety of food, entertainment, and nightlife, available in a form and abundance comparable to that in other world capitals.

The city houses important financial institutions such as the Reserve Bank of India, the Bombay Stock Exchange, the National Stock Exchange of India, the SEBI and the corporate headquarters of numerous Indian companies and multinational corporations. It is also home to some of India's premier scientific and nuclear institutes like Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Nuclear Power Corporation of India, Indian Rare Earths, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Atomic Energy Commission of India, Department of Atomic Energy and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. The city also houses India's Hindi (Bollywood) and Marathi cinema industries. Mumbai's business opportunities, as well as its potential to offer a higher standard of living, attract migrants from all over India, making the city a melting pot of many communities and cultures and as a result it has led to Mumbai becoming one of the most populated cities in the world. It further led to massive construction and commercial boom for housing and providing amenities.

Due to the same reason, the congestion, economic imbalance and consumerism has taken toll on the quality of life in Mumbai. Unprecendented traffic jams and unbelievable amount of waste from several industries/sectors are produced each day. Municipality is fighting hard to manage the waste and dispose it efficiently. But to our surprise the many inland rivers, canals have contributed to the unaccounted waste reaching the sea through them, which presents a very horrifying picture.

In this project It was tried to discover the story of trash and particularly plastic as a waste travelling through our lives and reaching at its current unintened destination, our water bodies such as seas and oceans. It was researched upon that how it is affecting marine life and how is it affecting the beaches in various aspects. It was then thought upon how we can increase the efficiency at which we can take back the trash and recycle it.

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