Editor:
I frequently walk on Gilmore Avenue, north of Hastings Street, and I am always saddened by the amount of litter I see.
So, last week, I overcame my hesitancy and picked it up. It didn’t take long to accumulate a depressing amount of garbage, mostly plastic food wrapping but also cigarette butts, recyclable cans and bottles, construction debris, and so on.
Some of it was Halloween candy wrappings inadvertently dropped by ghosts and goblins — or Spiderman and Wonder Woman — but I suspect most of it came from residential garbage cans. It is apparent that some residents regularly clean the public areas in front of their homes, but most don’t. I’d like to suggest that if every Burnaby resident took five minutes every couple of weeks to tidy up in front of their own property, and to pick up stray garbage on garbage days, not only would our city would be more beautiful but people also might appreciate just how much garbage we all generate.
Katie Rodgers, Burnaby
