Publication: Weekend Nation
Paper Section And Page: 26
Paper Date: Fri, Feb 11, 2000
Byline: Compiled by Terry Ally
ANOTHER Mount Stinkeroo is in the making and the public is responsible for it. It is not piling up in any one place but spreading across the island's gullies, highways, roads, beaches and in the sea.
It is all the indiscriminate dumping by those litterbugs in society. Tomorrow, more than 1 500 socially-conscious Barbadians will take to the highways, beaches, and some dive sites to remove thousands of bags of litter. On land, the litter collects water in which mosquitoes breeds. The garbage also provides homes for the leptospirosis-bearing rodents which kill about four Barbadians each year. That litter washes into the sea where it can choke and kill marine life including the endangered Hawksbill turtle.
By 10 a.m. tomorrow, all the litter
collected across the island will be used to build a mini-Mount Stinkeroo
on Bayshore Beach, Bay Street. Don't worry, all the litter will be safely
contained tightly in strong degradable Tuffy SPI-TEK garbage bags and
contained by 10-foot high litter fences from the Greenland Landfill. This
will demonstrate to Barbadians that the little pieces of waste which
they do not consider to be important but thrown "into the bush"
can pile up to significant quantities. And with this demonstration, the Nation
Publishing Co. Limited and Starcom Network Inc. in association
with the Sanitation Service Authority, the Ministry of Health will launch
an anti-litter campaign.
The launching ceremony at 10 a.m. is open to the public.