Yes, I'm dragging out the soapbox, briefly. I was going to write about this a few weeks ago after John picked up a McDonald's bag full of vomit dumped at the end of our driveway here at Struan Farm. Revolting, appalling, disgusting really.
I've held off until today, after returning from a collecting trip along our front roadside. The amount of drink bottles (glass and plastic, alcoholic and non-), used coffee cups, candy wrappers, chip bags, etc. tossed out from cars speeding by is staggering. Public rubbish bins are less than 10k away. I'm assuming that most of the rubbish comes from cars travelling north, but that may not be the case.
WHY, PEOPLE? WHY? Is it so hard to hold onto your rubbish until you get somewhere to dispose of it properly, rather than the beautiful, rural countryside? What adds insult to injury is that we have no kerbside pickup in our rural area, we actually take our rubbish and recycling by car into Piopio to dispose of it at the local dump. Including this.
Thanks for listening.
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