Dear Editor:
My wife and I went to Burnaby Mountain Park on Sunday night to walk our dog and enjoy the views and greenery of what I think is the most beautiful urban park in North America.
But we were shocked by the amount of trash littered on the slopes and picnic area by all the people who were there.
There were paper bags, plates, cups, plastic containers and bags – just all sorts of debris left cluttering and marring this beautiful space. It was very disturbing.
Some folks before leaving picked up much of their trash, but a lot was still left behind on the ground. There are trash containers where this can be put.
We live in a free and beautiful country where all liberties are regarded as precious. But there are responsibilities for this freedom and certainly one of them is to keep our beautiful areas clean, and this is something we should all regard as a duty and try to fulfill.
Wylie McLallen, Burnaby
