Panaji, Jan. 31 -- In recent years, visitors and locals in Goa have recoiled at the sight of its once-pristine beaches and countryside choking with mounds of plastic, glass bottles and metal shards that have increasingly come to underline the perils of unchecked urban expansion and booming tourism. Now, the state government is attempting to reverse course. Come April 1, Goa is set to roll out a statewide deposit refund scheme (DRS) to encourage people to return and recycle plastic, glass and metal packaging otherwise discarded after use, officials of the department of environment and climate change said. According to Anthony de Sa, who chairs the scheme administrative committee that will oversee the rollout of the scheme, the scheme will in...