People fixing.
People fixing the world.
If there's one place where you're guaranteed to hear about solutions, it's people fixing the world.
From the BBC World Service, I'm Mayra Anubi, and every week I turn your focus to creative things people are doing to make our world a better place.
Now, today, we'll be talking about a monster that has taken over our planet.
Plastic.
But you know me, I'm all about solutions.
So today we're going to India to hear how everything from plastic packaging, wrappers, and even cigarette butts are being transformed into something new.
Plastic waste is everywhere.
Just so we understand the scale of this, According to the UN globally, 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic waste end up in our oceans and lakes every day.
2000.
And this is bad because plastic can take up to a thousand years to break down.
So essentially, this material is.
Is just building up on our planet, choking up marine life and leaking harmful chemicals into our soils.
Now, we've looked at several ways to try and tackle this problem on the program before, but when you have a problem that's this big, you can never have enough solutions.
So today we're going to one of the countries that produces the most plastic waste in the world.
India.
Our reporter Chavi Sachdev is taking us to her city to find out more about projects that are turning this trash into treasure.
I'm standing by the seafront in a pretty ritzy part of my city, Mumbai.
The sidewalk is crowded with joggers, people walking their dogs, skateboarders.