Unsightly refuse

I refer to your report Unsightly refuse and while I agree that some "Rubbish" contractors have been quite indifferent to their jobs, I feel the blame should not be totally assigned to those overworked and underpaid labourers.

Some of the blame should be towards the authorities who fail to provide proper and easily accessible rubbish bins and containers so that the public and residents know where to bring their rubbish to be collected. However, most of the blame should be put on the public and the residents themselves, as most of them ignore assigned rubbish collection areas and haphazardly throw their rubbish at corners and side roads, and at other not so conspicuous places.

In this respect, how do you expect the hard-pressed contractors to know ALL the areas that have the rubbish that have been arbitrarily thrown by selfish and irresponsible people? We, as responsible people should do our part to assist the contractors to do a good job. From the pictures that have appeared in your paper about those rubbish that have been uncollected, can you genuinely say that they have been left at collection points designated by the local authorities? Maybe the local councils should install more CCTV cameras to catch those totally irresponsible culprits.

Only when we behave responsibly can we blame the garbage contractors for being remiss in their jobs. We have to do our part too, to make the country livable.