So where were you last bank holiday Monday? Living in London and never been to the carnival, we decided to give it a go if only to soak up the atmosphere (and remind ourselves not to stay too late lest we get caught up in the violence that the carnival is infamous for).
I’m not going to talk about what fun we had or what antics people get up to. Let’s just say these are scenes you would not see every day in the streets. And definitely not in broad daylight.
But going through the streets off the parade route, the ones lined with food stalls and the intoxicating smell of jerk chicken in the air, you see the mountains of rubbish – plastic bottles, plastic cups, aluminum cans, bottles, styrofoam containers, half eaten chicken, lots of rice, leaflets.
And i thought a lot of them can be recycled. shops should have been banned from using styrofoams. and we really should make an effort in finishing our meals. and there are plenty of bins about, there really is no excuse why you should leave your beer bottles where you’ve finished them. (a lot of us were scared in cutting our feet from the countless broken bottles in the streets)
It’s ok to have fun. Believe me, I am all for it. And the carnival is a much welcome respite for a lot of us. But I can’t help thinking how much we are costing the environment with our ’sense of fun’. Really, we can have that much fun whilst knowing how to throw our trash in the proper recycling bin right?
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