Fast food containers a blight on roadsides
When walking in our semi rural residential area, I am constantly picking up fast food containers along the roadside.
At least twice yearly I do a “garbage run” on the most heavily used portion of the road, spanning a distance of about half a kilometre, and I never fail to pick up at least a large black garbage bag full; 90 per cent is fast food containers, two per cent is miscellaneous and the remainder are returnable cans and bottles.
I don’t think the local fast food take-out restaurants assume enough responsibility for the constant stream of containers which they send out the door daily, some of which end up in landfills, but a large amount is hidden from view by forest cover and overgrowth in the ditches when indescriminently tossed from passing vehicles. This problem grows yearly with the increased recreational usage of river access for swimming and fishing.
I have trained my dog to pickup empty beer cans along the roadway and carry them home, why can’t the slobs who throw the garbage from their vehicles do the same? Maybe they’re not as smart as a dog?
Mike Wilkinson
Duncan