What was meant to be a pleasant, aesthetic walk through south Mumbai’s green canopy is now ugly. A year after its inauguration, the Malabar Hill treetop walkway is overlooking slopes littered with plastic waste as tourists toss snack packets and bottles off the edge of the Hanging Gardens, turning a forest experience into a walk overlooking a dumping ground.

Post the inauguration, garbage is steadily piling up on the hill slopes below this walkway and around it, our front page report stated.