I agree wholeheartedly with Geraldine Lange’s complaint about litter along Sugar Mill Road (‘What a mess, does anyone care?’ SCH July 17) .
I’m afraid, however, that it’s not exclusive to Sugar Mill Road.
The area behind the Oribi Plaza is absolutely disgusting and the Sandspit area is a rubbish dump of fishing detritus although I don’t think the fishermen are altogether to blame here – one can see the occasional attempts at bagging rubbish but there are no bins.
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So would bins would be the answer? Apparently not. When we bought our home on this beautiful coast eight years ago a neighbour told us the area was nicknamed ‘Slumwich Port’ because of all the litter.
Here we do have bins though… from the Damba mouth to Banana Beach there are quite a few strategically placed bins… BUT THEY’RE NEVER CLEARED!
Around each bin is a pile of trash growing menacingly larger each day. My wife and I have done the occasional cleanup of the Sunwich Trail picnic area but it’s a Sisyphean task.
Do our rates not pay for the employment of someone to empty the beachfront bins at least?
ZAC GRAHAM
Sunwich Port
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