Tauranga is becoming a 'chuck it” place. Apart from the paper rubbish, the level of plastic being left around our streets is alarming. As we are being told, all these bits, big or small, eventually end up in the storm water system and thence to the sea. There they are disintegrated in the water body and finally into the inhabitants thereof, which are the fish that we eat.

While the sort of people who drop most of them are probably not the readers of this paper, maybe this letter may help some consider the problem in the future?

And this plastic also includes cigarette ends. If one thinks this letter is an overreaction, take a look at the bus stop area outside The Warehouse on Cameron Rd.

R McGuinness, Tauranga City.