Afroz Shah is a young Indian lawyer from Mumbai. He is best known for organizing the world's largest beach clean-up project. In October 2015, Shah and his neighbor Harbansh Mathur, an 84-year-old, were frustrated with the piles of decomposing waste that had washed up at Versova beach. So they started cleaning up the beach themselves, one piece of rubbish at a time. Every weekend since, he inspired volunteers to join him – from slum-dwellers to Bollywood stars, from schoolchildren to politicians. When asked about his initiative he called it “ a date with the ocean”. In 2016, Shah was named by the United Nations as a Champion of the Earth for his work. Further he started a campaign to remove plastic from the Mithi river and Dana Pani beach in Mumbai. Inspired by this initiative he got the support from many other people and environmentalists including Actor and Sustainable Development Goals Advocate UN Environment Dia Mirza, Shiv Sena’s youth party president Aaditya Thackeray, Bollywood’s megastar and Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He vows to continue his beach clean-up crusade until people and their governments around the world change their approach to producing, using and discarding plastic and other products that wash up onto beaches all over the world. The oceans deserve our respect and care, polluting them is not at all fair. Loving nature must be an everyday affair.