RUBBISH

ADDICTIVE RUBBISH

Hi
I help with the tidy towns clean up campaign every couple of months in my area. I have noticed more and more that the rubbish I collect falls into one certain category…addictive drugs. And even though these drugs are legal and readily available, it doesn’t mean that they are harmless to society. I know it sounds over the top but if you think about what goes into the bin bags you will have to agree. Beer bottles and cans, these all contained the drug alcohol. Sweet wrappers, these contained sugar, which in its refined form is very addictive. Cigarette packets, the cigarettes contained 100 chemicals, some of them such as nicotine are highly addictive. Fast food wrappers. The fast food has addictive properties and too much of this type of food makes you extremely unwell if a proper nutritious diet isn’t followed. I know I sound a bit evangelical and a bit of a fuddy duddy but I thought it was worth a mention.

Regards name and address withheld.

You sound as thought you go on the litter trails around the beaches and car parks. There is no denying that the rubbish thrown out on to the streets contained these addictive substances. Sometimes you probably come across bottles that are still full of beer or alco pops in the hedgerows. These are usually left by people returning from a night out and don’t want their parents to find the stuff in the house so they hide them. Unfortunately they seem to forget where they left them in the morning. Not all rubbish left behind contains drugs though. Someone put a large wooden board on the end of our road with words to congratulate someone called Sam on reaching his (or her) thirtieth birthday. It was witty on the day but it seemed as though Sam was having an exceptionally long celebration as the sign stayed for three weeks before I took it away!