The Editor,
I was waiting for the bus at one of the stops at Brighouse Station, when out of the corner of my eye, I saw the wind toss newspapers around on the side walk. I just had to catch them before they got out onto the busy road!
I bent down to pick them up in several different spots when, suddenly, a bike screeched to a halt inches from me.
What was a bicyclist doing on the side walk? This was a heavily populated spot filled with pedestrians and people waiting in lines for buses, as it was the beginning of rush hour.
The newspaper recycling bins with the slits at the top are not ideal for recycling papers that have been wrinkled and mussed up because of the wind. It took me several minutes to get the papers stuffed into the slits. I guess that’s why people keep using the newspapers to decorate the streets.
A nice old man actually came up and thanked me for getting rid of them. I didn’t know how to respond. Maybe we should start thanking people for responsibly throwing away their newspapers.
Hazel Cheng
Richmond
