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The La Citizens Network Foundation, a community-based advocacy group within the La community, has organised a clean-up exercise along the La Beach and the Kpeshi Lagoon to mark this year�s World Plastic Pollution Day. The exercise, which attracted the Member of Parliament for La Dadekotopon, Nii Amasah Namoale, was to create awareness of and reduce the plastic and rubber waste menace in the Kpeshi Lagoon. Zoomlion and the La Municipal Assembly supported the exercise. Source of fishing The President of the foundation, David Nii Amarh Ode, said the lagoon, which was a source for fishing and salt extraction for the people, had become choked as a result of the disposal of rubbish and plastic waste. The plastic pollution, he said, had also poisoned and affected the livestock and human health in the community. Mr Ode said there was the need to educate the public to refrain from activities that would impose diseases on livestock and affect human health in the community. He said embarking on sustained clean-up exercises would help the country achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on sanitation. He appealed to the government and the relevant local authorities to take up the responsibility and ensure that lagoons were cleaned up to reduce diseases in the country.