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Letter: Trace trail of litter from fast food restaurants to schools

The Editor, Re: "' Disgusted' at dumping on Coquitlam trail " (Letters, The Tri-City News, I agree wholeheartedly with the letter writer about the amount of litter being left around our cities.
Volunteers with the trash collected by the Hoy-Scott Watershed Society last summer
Volunteers with the trash collected by the Hoy-Scott Watershed Society last summer

The Editor,

Re: "'Disgusted' at dumping on Coquitlam trail" (Letters, The Tri-City News,

I agree wholeheartedly with the letter writer about the amount of litter being left around our cities. I routinely pick up litter from several streets around my home and, sadly, it starts to reappear within a few hours of my clean-up efforts. The amount of litter also increases dramatically every time school resumes after any sort of a break. In fact, you can follow a trail of cups and food wrappers from every fast food restaurant in the area back to the neighbourhood schools.

Shame on my generation for introducing these disposable items in the first place, but shame, also, on the current generation for continuing to dispose of them inappropriately.

Surely we can teach our children better habits. After all, they're shaping the world they're going to live in as adults and, if current trends continue, that world is going to be even messier than it is now.

Keith Walker, Port Coquitlam