Letters | Sunday, 21 June 2009

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A job for the ‘tourism and garbage’ minister

We recently became residents of Malta. We are from Northern Europe and have very big problems with the Maltese for being unaware of how to keep nature free of garbage. We have seen many families and couples visiting the rocky beach of Ta’ Xbiex and we are astonished at the way Maltese people protect their island. At the cliffs there are plastic plates, wine bottles, cans, and papers left after spending a few hours at the rocky beach. Have they not learnt that Santa Claus does not take care of the garbage?
And why have they not been taught that the sea does not take care of the garbage? They obviously think that visitors love to come back to a dirty island. But that is not true! Just take a walk from Dingli to Hagar Qim and you will find tonnes of garbage, metal, old stoves, tyres, plastics, and cans along the path. How can the Maltese government believe this will make tourists visit this dirty island? The minister of tourism and garbage have a lot more to do to impress tourists.
Please Maltese people, take your garbage with you and do not dump the trash on the beaches or along the roads. Your children are the ones that must clean it up!

Tobias Ollson
Ta’ Xbiex

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