Some of the worst-hit regions in 2005 lay along the Mithi River, a waterway clogged by silt, plastic and sewage that runs through the thickly populated and industrial areas of the city before draining into the Arabian Sea.
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He is king of a mountain built of old tricycles and bent board games, yellowed newspapers and bulging plastic bags, sewage sludge and construction debris all the detritus, discards and once valuable tokens of modern life and wealth, reduced to an amorphous, dense amalgam known as "fill".
Such substrate can be plastic garbage, sewage and other sources of human-created waste.
Just look at Cumberland Infirmary where the ceilings collapsed because of cheap plastic joints, where the sewage system could not cope with the number of users and filth flooded an operating theatre.
That risk may be rising, according to some experts, who hold the popular but controversial opinion that factors including discharge of sewage and plastics, overfishing and climate change are creating ideal conditions for the hardy gelatinous animals to proliferate.
Centuries of dumping waste -- sewage, garbage, chemicals, plastics, drugs -- has now morphed into industrial-scale fishing and accelerating resource extraction.
Sewage, fertilizers, industrial chemicals, plastics, paint, drugs, and hand soap, among other contaminants, find their way into the world's rivers every day.
Cities come with sewers, and Browne's team thought the plastic fibers might enter the ocean via sewage.
