Yet, time after time, after Blacktown City Council officers spend hours, picking up and cleaning areas where any amounts of rubbish are dumped or dropped, voluntarily. There are the few that think because they walk on or around public property, they can do what they like with it, including burn rubbish , if not picked up.
Here is Grass Fire at Hythe Street Reserve Mount Druitt today |
I have reported in the past,issues of dumped rubbish and over grown grass on the Hythe Street Reserve, Mount Druitt (which is along Ear Street) and have not received a response from NSW EPA or Blacktown City Council as yet, either from Councillors or Council Officers. If only they had responded and cleared this rubbish. That would have been a start and then maintain the property by mowing the grass down.
A suggestion from a former Blacktown City Councillor, Kathy Collins is so simple that I do think Council need to look at this inniative: that community members pick up rubbish in front of their own properties as they place their rubbish bins, each week for pick up.
Resolution to this problem, is not one person's responsibility. Let's go back to teaching the basics of keeping our community clean and tidy to our community. The following are the ways I think our community can change:
- Kathy Collins suggestion of clean front of your house, when placing rubbish bins ready for pick up.
- Promotions of "Tosser Campaign" all around Dawson Mall/Mount Druitt Town Square, streets and all Parks/Reserve within Mount Druitt, materials obtained through NSW EPA litter.prevention@epa.nsw.gov.au
- Each Councillor from Blacktown City Council, must spread the word of a cleaner environment at every public meeting they address and every community member they meet.
- Keep your community clean signs - place the amount of fines on signs.
- Local radio and newspaper media remind and the community that the cleaner we keep our land the emphasis on a cleaner life to live in!
- Council Rangers fining community members and then the community will start to get the word - or if the community member wants to spend a day cleaning up a few streets instead - that will pay their dues or go out to the community likes schools and business, to teach them the right way of keeping our community clean.
- Blacktown City Council, should organise cleaning of an report an public area within 3 to 4 days, not neglect it - like what has happen here!
- Maybe Council can engage the community in open forums where people make suggestions of improvements in this area.
I'm sure that Blacktown City Council spend Millions of Dollars of 'Keeping our communities clean'! More community pride will reduce these costs, thus reducing council rates and more for useful expenditure!
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