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"Zap-it-in-a-Ziggy-Bin" from Strand writes:

In a recent DistrictMail, there were many articles and reference made to the pollution and litter of our town.

We can write and complain until the next Haley?s Comet comes flashing back to town. The City of Cape Town can spend millions cleaning up after us and can provide employment for the entire village at Sun City. This problem will not go away. I have often driven past small streams or open fields or seen the litter strewn around defiantly, daring us to clean up or hanging like poor Christmas decorations from barbed wire fences. The people who are responsible just walk on by.

I have driven behind vehicles and seen the occupants merely toss their empty packet of chips or milkshake holder out their window without a care in the world. You know who you are, and had the remaining contents flung across my windscreen almost causing me to veer off the road like a drunken idiot.

The problem here is lack of education and national pride.

This country belongs to everyone now, but cultures still divide us like a cesspool of an abyss.

I hope those that are guilty of litter and apathy are reading this letter.

Lift yourself out of your "the world owes me so I couldn't care less" attitude.

Teach your children, your friends and elders to throw their rubbish in bins and not drop them where they sit so that the wind can advertise what you ate all over the Western Cape.

Schools: start clean up campaigns within your own grounds and teach the little ones to have national pride - show them what a dustbin looks like - an unknown concept to many high school children.

When you go picnicking at a camp site or beach, take your rubbish home with you if there are no bins. Leaving rubbish and old food lying around is disgusting, unhygienic and merely shows visitors to our beautiful country that we are nothing more than a troop of wild baboons tossing peels at each other. Let's show them we are as beautiful as the mountains and oceans around us. We won't create more jobs by leaving rubbish lying around, but we will create more jobs by having more tourists come back again and again.

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