Dear Editor,
Now that the rainy season is here again, the plastic containers that were dumped on the roadways, thrown in the drains and trenches, pitched from passing vehicles, are now floating and blocking our drains and canals in the city and countryside.
It looks really ugly to see piles and piles of plastic containers littering our surroundings; after all, plastic doesn’t rot and will continue to be an eyesore.
How do the President and his ministers feel when they visit other countries and see the clean streets, roads and canals, and compare that with Georgetown which is littered with all manner of garbage?
With no recycling plant here, the manufacture of soft drinks and bottled water locally, plus the importation of tons of foodstuff and aerated drinks in plastic containers, we are in for a massive plastic invasion that will surely make Guyana be scorned.
Yours faithfully,
George Vernon
Well Vernon boy…we had the massive floods of 2005 and if that has not changed our addiction to littering… what else can? We are still being flodded when the rain falls and mostly due to what….plastic and styrofoam added to the weeds in our drains!!!!
maybe with the recent flooding and the site of garbbage all over the place will act as a deterant and maybe, just maybe folks will be cautious in the future about trashing their own environment.
with the goverment,that is an entire story. However, it is really sad to see the state the city and how Guyana is evolving in a backwards manner and spiralling out of control in a black hole.
….. the pervasiveness of “mindlessness” ! soon all will be consumed by exponential growth ! we r eight days away from the expected opening of the BRB ,, it would be the only reason i would come back to Gy ,, since it was my dream as a child ,, to have the joy of driving — or being driven — across the Berbice River !…
now ,, because of the prevailing scenarios ,, of crime ,, and the wanton killling of humans ,, by humans ,, compounded by the corruption ,, by these mindless morons ,, i fear for the lives of those in Gy ,, who are still alive !
The people seem not to care about their environment nor their surroundings. Styrofoam food containers and plastic water/drink bottles litter the landscape of Guyana.
This is the first thing visitors are welcomed with in the capital city.
Who want to leave their nice cities around the world to visit a garbage dump!!!
Well, get a recycling plant started by simply melting all collected plastics.In the meantime,what do you plan to use? Banana leaves will do.