I can’t stand seeing our wonderful Cape Town beaches littered with chip packets, coke bottles and endless amounts of rubbish left behind by thoughtless beach-goers. Litter bugs. It’s unpleasant and unnecessary. If everyone put their trash into a rubbish bin or black bag, the beaches would be kept clean.
I was raised to throw rubbish in the bin. Throwing stuff out the car was highly frowned upon. Throwing wrappers on the ground was also a no-no. These simple lessons need to be passed onto visitors to our beaches and reinstated in the classroom. Surely it can’t be too difficult to take a rubbish bag with you when you visit the beach? Instead of leaving the coke bottles behind, put them in the bag. Leave nothing behind except your footprints.
This is a photo doing the rounds on Facebook – apparently it was taken at 6am on the morning of 27th December 2016 after the Boxing Day beach rush the day before…
Unpleasant and destructive to sea life when the high tide comes in and washes it into the sea. The city needs to do a “keep our beaches clean drive.” (Lots of recycling there!)
Down in Fish Hoek, over the Christmas weekend, I was highly impressed with City employees who worked on all the public holidays (including Christmas day) to keep Fish Hoek beach clean. There were numbers of them cleaning up rubbish the messy litter-bugs had left behind. As a result, this was what the beach looked like at 8pm, low tide at Fish Hoek last night…
It was pristine, ready for the next day’s crowds. We are privileged to live here.
This goes beyond the beach litter. God has given us this land to care for. Let’s do a decent job of it.
Psalm 24:1
The earth is the LORD’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it
While we are here, we have a responsibility.
On a different note, my 1000 thanks continue.
#144 of my 1000 thanks is for home made cappuccino. I really enjoy them.
#145 of my 1000 thanks is for leather couches, so today when I spilled an entire cappuccino on the couch, I just needed to wipe it clean! 🙂
These are the days!
Keep the beaches clean….and the smile going.
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂