Community attempts to clean up mangrove swamp in Laucala Beach but more than 100 bags of rubbish yet to be collected

Laucala Beach residents, youths from Kinoya Village and the Nasinu Town Council have come together in an attempt to clean up the mangrove swamp located close to Bailey Bridge in Laucala Beach however, a lot more needs to be done to stop people from dumping rubbish.

In an interview with fijivillage News, Doctor Rajesh Maharaj who got everyone together says he has seen a lot of plastics, plastic bottles and rubbish floating under the Bailey Bridge which covers the river.

He says this rubbish comes from Laucala Beach, Caubati and Kinoya areas where rubbish is thrown in drains and on roadsides that float and pile up.

Dr. Maharaj says in just within an hour, they collected 30 garbage bags of waste and over 100 bags of waste are yet to be collected.

He says they also cleaned up a drain close to a prominent supermarket in Flagstaff which had a lot of plastic bottles.

The Laucala Beach resident says he wants to create awareness and educate people to properly dispose household and business wastes as rubbish end up in the sea and damages the marine ecosystem which a lot of people are dependent on.