Letters to the Editor

Updated March 15 2017 - 1:38pm, first published 12:32pm

Little care shown

So we've had Clean Up Day again and I see, yet again, members of our Ballarat community have been keen to try, Canute-like, to deal with the flow of litter and other pollutants that enters the Yarrowee River and its tributaries in prodigious volumes. One thing about getting older is that you see behaviours continuing you would have thought we'd have been able to weed out from our 'culture' long ago. Littering, on a vast scale, is one of them. The fact is, when it really comes down to it, we don't care much about the impact of littering on our environment - the condition of the city's waterways being a very clear example in this regard. It's very much a case of 'out of sight, out of mind'. If vast quantities of litter head down the Yarrowee via the city's drainage system, so what? Most of us don't see it and it's a very convenient way of dispatching of rubbish, with a little help from the occasional downpour.

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