Monday, October 3, 2011

Stop littering one of our national treasures

I take great pleasure in writing this article that should have been written long ago by myself or even by someone else to identify the significance of keeping our prestigious No. 63 beach, an international natural tourism attraction pristine clean by drawing the line and advocating, “Do not litter our precious beach anymore.”
In order to do so, I am taking the opportunity in this article to identify how we could prevent dumping of waste in public places of great concern like the beach. One of my ideas for now is to let the public be aware that the beach belongs to all of us and we should cherish what we are so fortunate to have and treat it with care by taking all of our trash back home after having a lovely, refreshing day of picnicking and partying on the beach.
You will have to dispose of your trash when you get home, in your private area, in a garbage bag in a barrel in front your home ready to get picked up by the garbage truck, or take it to your nearby dumpsite for disposal. Hopefully, the spot you choose to dispose your trash is a non-residential area so that it doesn’t create pollution, stench or health hazards in that area as well. Whatever you bring to the beach, please take back home with you so we could maintain a clean, healthy and beautiful environment. Walk with a bag: black plastic, garbage or even the re-usable rice ones and pile your garbage into this then park it in a corner of your trunk and dispose of it when you reach home in your trash collection bin.
People have to learn to take ownership of their trash that they leave on the beach. It belongs to you and don’t spread it around for everyone to meet an untidy surrounding of scenic beauty.  This unfortunate practice has been going on for years now and has really got to my nerves and no one seems to care or to say anything about this or teach the public what to do.
I am tired along with my family to see people’s sanitary cups, plates, glass bottles and plastic ones too etc. being scattered along the beach and blown in all directions with the Atlantic winds causing a filthy atmosphere instead of a spotlessly clean one.
Dumping on our 63 Beach is wrong and shouldn’t happen! Even in public places along the roadside and frequently visited areas we see clogged drains with empty plastic bottles and this nonsense should abruptly stop, with reference to my last article on littering dated August 20, 2010.
Do we want to chase and scare away tourists when they see the condition of the beach with shards of glass strewn along the sand caused by broken bottles that could cut one’s feet, puncture your car or bicycle tyre and are seen as dangerous obstacles along our pretty path in life? Don’t we want to encourage our visitors to stay and watch the sunrise on 63 Beach, walk along the clean, golden brown sand and wade in the navy blue river waters, have fun and frolic in the sun then relax on a lay-back chair on the beach absorbing the re-invigorating Atlantic breeze cruising over the land seemingly hesitant to depart from such a pleasant milieu?
We must be able to feel a positive ambience, something that is advocated in clean air according to the Chinese Sheng Fue. With this feeling you can breathe clean air and good actions will come out of you and around you. Parents, I am surprised how some of you come and litter our magnificent beach and do hope you will stop and teach your children who are out of school and on vacation to dispose of solid waste in the proper way.

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