Alan Quigley, St Paul's Bay
Rubbish in the sea at St Paul's Bay
Once again it is the season of seaside picnics and barbecues in St Paul's Bay, the seemingly inevitable consequence of which is the rubbish dumped in the sea by Maltese families before they return home. If the adjacent bins are full (and many picnickers won't know, as they don't bother to look) this rubbish should be taken home, or at least bagged and left for collection.
This behaviour is disgraceful, and shows no respect for the environment or fellow citizens.
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Mary Fisher
Jul 13th 2009, 22:49
We Maltese look at this digusting state in the sea and try to make an excuse by saying that the wind must have blown the rubbish in. Where does the wind blow the rubbish from? If we did not throw rubbish about there would be no rubbish to accommodate the wind and litter the sea. As good citizens we should have the right to report the wrongdoers but to who? Would our calls be taken notice of?
m attard
Jul 13th 2009, 17:39
The SPB local council needs a big shake-up and wake-up call. The area extending all the way from Qawra point to Veccja is one big rubbish mess. There is no enforcement at all. The only thing the wardens in these areas do is give out traffic fines. Now if this was done fairly and helped with the traffic flow, no problem at all. However, they never ever patrol a particular Fish Shop area, where cars are constantly double parked causing havoc especially on Sundays. The same goes for a particular supermarket area. But park your car on one foot of yellow line and.... hey presto, here comes the warden! SPB local council is a shame.
joseph Buttigieg
Jul 13th 2009, 15:49
And we were told that glass bottles are being replaced by plastic ones for the sake of the environment. What a laugh.
These bottles are not being thrown away in the sea by anyone, they are being blown away from over spilling dustbins at bugibba prominade. Wake up St. Paul's Bay counsill, Festoons and new pot plants that are reducing the walking area on the prominade do not make a good environment. CLEEN UP THE PLACE.
What happened to the only good thing that the councill did last year? They started to close the area for traffic in the evenings. This year its back to square one.
John Borg
Jul 13th 2009, 15:29
And then some are surprised that barbeques will no longer be allowed at Ghadira.
Fred Medhurst
Jul 13th 2009, 12:22
I am not surprised to see the rubbish in the sea. It is the same every year when I visit. The MTA are chasing bar owners for advertising on umbrellas and canopies to promote a better product yet do not seem to be getting involved with the biggest turn off to tourists which is rubbish just strewn everywhere. Last timeI visited I took a complete sequence of a family departing Pretty Bay after a picnic and the rubbish they left yet they were less than 10 paces from a rubbish bin. I appealed to their sense of community to throw the rubbish in the bin provided to a "Mela", a shrug of the shoulders and muttering in Maltese. They then left. I put the rubbish in the bin taking just a couple of minutes out of my day. As a diver I see lots of BBQ rubbish at the bottom of the sea including once a pigs head complete with bandana. If Malta really does want to get the product right start with the basics and stop the dumping of rubbish with punative fines.
Mario Spiteri
Jul 13th 2009, 11:15
How true? What a shame! Won't some of us ever learn to be civil? Where are the green wardens?
May I make a suggestion? I once was in Favignana, a small island off the Sicilina western coast, and saw a guy with a big net scooping up litter from the sea. I asked about him to a local trader and was told that this person was contracted by the local council to pick up the litter thrown by "uncivilised persons" into the sea.
Can the local councils imitate such a good idea?