EDITOR – It has been nearly two weeks since the floods but the adjacent photo shows the state of the lagoon and beach at Chain Rocks.
It seems municipal workers only cleaned up Inyoni Rocks and Warner Beach and decided to bypass this area.
It is an absolute disgrace as to what we have become – a nation of litterers. We are truly Third World. This disaster we have just experienced can be attributed to rubbish being thrown everywhere but in bins and municipal workers even sweep litter into stormwater drains, which block as a result.
Heavy rains causes all this rubbish to eventually end up in the rivers and, ultimately, our beaches. This is what I look out at from my residence at Lagoon Point. It is disgraceful. The flooding would not have been nearly as destructive as it was were it a functioning drainage system.
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I have lived here for the last 52 years and I have never seen anything like it pre-2000. I have photographs of the beaches after cyclone Demoina in 1987 and while the beaches were covered in debris, it was not plastic. It was reeds, branches, trees and so on. The rain we had in May produced a similar result.
It is high time that government began to seriously educate the population on the evils of littering and even issue fines for this transgression. The problem is, there is no real will to do this sort of thing and improve our environment.
Other emerging economies, including Thailand and Vietnam for example, have got this right. I hope your newspaper can bring pressure to bear on the authorities to clean up this mess.
GARY SCHREINER
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