Dear Editor,
The sea shore at the Georgetown seawall has become a garbage dumpsite. My recent walk there on Monday afternoon confirmed that a once clean and peaceful seawall is now being littered with all sorts of garbage.
This includes plastic bottles, plastic bags, styrofoam boxes and cups, old tyres and broken glass bottles – the broken bottles are sticking out from the shore.
The regular Sunday night lime is the main source of the garbage.
People just have no regard for their surroundings and can be seen throwing all their refuse on both sides of the seawall.
Is this the way we treat our environment, especially our beloved seawall and seashore? Or is it the way things are now being done in Guyana?
My suggestion is that the vendors selling on the seawall on Sunday nights should be the ones to clean up, and that larger bins should be placed for the disposal of their garbage.
If no serious action is taken for the proper disposal of plastics in Guyana then in a few years’ time it will be horrific.
Yours faithfully,
P Rawlins
