By Charrie M. Santillan
On Garbage Availability While Traveling
Garbage. A city ordinance I truly appreciate requires all jeepneys to keep a small garbage bin in the vehicle where passengers can drop their garbage – fast food disposable containers, candy wraps, fruit peels, etc. What I cannot yet comprehend is - where, the common senses, of those who just throw these pieces behind them, have gone!
Are we aware what contributions we make to the consequence? Aside from the natural causes, we should perhaps be likewise accountable why it happens. Several times in my travel routine have I seen passengers who – schooled or otherwise – do not know how to dispose their garbage to their intended keeps. Freely throwing their garbage behind them while the jeepney treads the road and the thrown garbage flew like kites in the wind, dropped to the ground, carried by the flowing rain water to the drain and clog, along with other wastes from irresponsible citizens as well. Flood comes next.
Garbage. A city ordinance I truly appreciate requires all jeepneys to keep a small garbage bin in the vehicle where passengers can drop their garbage – fast food disposable containers, candy wraps, fruit peels, etc. What I cannot yet comprehend is - where, the common senses, of those who just throw these pieces behind them, have gone!
Are we aware what contributions we make to the consequence? Aside from the natural causes, we should perhaps be likewise accountable why it happens. Several times in my travel routine have I seen passengers who – schooled or otherwise – do not know how to dispose their garbage to their intended keeps. Freely throwing their garbage behind them while the jeepney treads the road and the thrown garbage flew like kites in the wind, dropped to the ground, carried by the flowing rain water to the drain and clog, along with other wastes from irresponsible citizens as well. Flood comes next.
