CANACONA: Galgibaga, one of the last beaches in Goa to remain virgin and unspoilt, has been affected by the plastic waste that washed ashore during this monsoon season.
Environmentalists and students of Mallikarjun College who had gone to plant Ipomoea biloba, a creeper to suppress sand erosion at Galgibaga beach had to double up as beach cleaners who cleared most of the synthetic waste lying all over the beach.
Environmentalists who were present on the beach at that time told Herald over the phone that the pieces of plastic waste looks like to have originated from the bridge construction site on Mashem and Galgibaga River.
“The labourers at the bridge construction site, with no regard for the environment, have thrown most of the plastic sheets which were used while casting concrete slabs on the bridge spans into the river which got washed into the sea and eventually back on the sea shore of Galgibaga beach,” Denis Fernandes alleged.
