Why do we not see the Rubbish?

It can take someone who is leaving town and wanting to take away fond memories of Bridgetown as a beautiful, friendly place to give us a fresh look on the town, then to point out the obvious.

Henry Morling a nine-year-old who attended Bridgetown Primary School last year, would like to draw the townsfolks attention to the amount of rubbish which is littering the town.

“I would like people of Bridgetown to become more aware of all the rubbish that is lying about streets, recreation areas and car parks in the town.

“It doesn’t need to be this way, and frankly over the last few years I feel it’s been getting worse.

“The rubbish is mostly small items, stuff which has been discarded with very little thought, out of sight, out of mind. But all the small rubbish lying around builds up and become piles of unsightly litter.

“There certainly seems to be enough rubbish bins around, I never have trouble finding one when I’m out and about.

“Those who are discarding their rubbish by just throwing it away should know better. Leaving the place as you find it should be the common-sense approach.

“Clean up Australia is a wonderful initiative, but it is only held for one day a year, I feel if we all pick up a little of this rubbish each day when we see it lying around it will make a huge difference.”

Michael’s thoughts: After Henry had told me his concerns about the discarded rubbish littering our town, we went out the back of the shop to the car park to take a photo. I was very surprised to see how much litter is out there. Walking no more than ten paces we had our picture for the story; a picture of sun bleached and faded rubbish which has been dumped and is left piling up; litter I have probably walked past but which I’d never seen, seeing it only for first time when I went looking for it.