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By Express News ServiceKOCHI: The Fort Kochi beach got rid of 300kg of waste on Saturday, thanks to the department of Marine Biology, Cusat, for organising a coastal cleaning drive on the International Coastal Clean-up Day. The drive was organised in association with the National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR) and School of Marine Sciences, Cusat. Approximately 100 gunny bags of degrading plastic materials, bottles, glass bottles, used batteries, nylon ropes, fishing gear waste, fishing nets, footwear, plastic food bags and straws were collected. The segregated waste was handed over to the Kochi Corporation for disposal. Shiny Mathew, standing committee chairperson and Antony Francis, Fort Kochi councillor commended the initiative..