Your Responses

Stephen Owens, Antrim (March 2004):

Living in the countryside I often feel that even I don't fully appreciate just how lucky we are to live in such a beautiful place. Yet I can't walk along even the quietest country roads without coming across some type of litter problem in the shape of plastic bottles, cans, cigarette packs etc.

I live near Tardree forest and it is a popular place for walkers, joggers and cyclists and it too is full of these types of things which have just been dropped in a moment by someone who probably should have known better.

How do we educate people about this? It is not much bother to take things like this home and quite a lot can be recycled.

Victoria, Crumlin (March 2004):

I have just read the article on litter surrounding the Strangford Lough area. I wanted to let you know this is a problem all over Northern Ireland which needs to be dealt with.

I come from Crumlin and travel to Belfast over the Hannastown Hill, which is an absolute tip. Sofas, matresses, televisions and bags of waste are abandoned there on land which could be a beauty spot.
There are many council dumps that accept all forms of waste. There is no need to destroy the local countryside.