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Letter: Litterbugs plague Pinetree Way

The Editor, Re. “Hey, litterbugs” (Opinion, The Tri-City News, Nov. 9) and online poll at tricitynews.com.
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The letter writer collected these discarded cigarette butts while walking to Coquitlam Public Library’s City Centre branch on Pinetree Way, where more butts were found in planters.

The Editor,

Re. “Hey, litterbugs” (Opinion, The Tri-City News, Nov. 9) and online poll at tricitynews.com.

The Tri-City News’ online poll question last week was: “Does there need to be more city enforcement of dumping and littering bylaws, with higher fines?”

Yes!

Definitely more enforcement and higher fines, please.

I walk along Pinetree Way to Coquitlam Public Library’s City Centre branch and outside the library is disgusting.

Hundreds of cigarette butts and people’s used tissues are the worst, even more than fast food garbage.

Don’t smokers know there are up to 10,000 chemicals in each cigarette that ends up in our streams when they’re not disposed of properly?

See my photo: This is what I picked up on a walk to the library to show you the depth of this problem — even the plastic bag was garbage on the sidewalk.

Some cigarette receptacles, as mentioned in another issue last week (“Cigarette receptacles help smokers butt out,” Nov. 7) would be helpful but I am sceptical about them improving the situation because near the closest bus stop to the library, there are three bins but still loads of litter in that very location.

Mallee Stanley, Coquitlam