In Chapter 2, we will follow our journey in the Uttan landfill in Mumbai. Uttan is the second biggest dump of the city of Mumbai, Deonar being the first. Michel Biel, one of the emerging actors of the moment in France and protagonist of a well-known French television series, that has been directed by masters such as Christopher Nilan ,will discover the issue of plastic pollution in our oceans and will do so, by confronting a reality as brutal as that of the Uttan landfill. Every year, India produces 60 million tons of waste, of which 2.7 million are generated only in Mumbai. The facilities that are there to absorb the tons generated in the city every day are the Deonar and Uttan landfills which also receive tons of plastic waste from other countries. The amount of waste arriving in the Mumbai landfills exceeds twice the capacity of these. As a result of the overload, the mountains of garbage tower over 30 meters high. Local communities and environmentalists have long complained about the lax enforcement of hazardous waste regulations, and Uttan is just one example of a phenomenon happening in many sites around the world. When the heavy seasonal rains arrive, tons of plastic from the landfills wash up into the ocean, unsupervised by the management, and this in turns refreshes the capacity of the dump to receive more waste. That is why many sanctioned garbage dumps in the world are intentionally set up on the coast or close to rivers. There are several dumps that are well managed as well, but it is time to push for better waste management, as well as for more waste reduction and recycling strategies. You can do your part, sharing the Mumbai Diaries of North Sails and spreading the message: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, it’s your choice.