Litter epidemic

THE EDITOR: I would like to heartily applaud BPTT for its initiative in cleaning up the Queen’s Park Savannah and its environs. Due partly to the complete lack of public awareness programmes in this country, a pervasive ignorance appears to have developed. How shameful and disgusting is the act of throwing garbage from one’s car or person onto an area of land or waterway. I fear that unless our Environmental Management Authority works in a practical manner to foster the combined efforts of private enterprise, and more fundamentally, educate against what is no less than a litter epidemic, our country will idle on its present filthy state.

LUKE SHEPPARD
Maraval