Dear editor:

With regularity, as I enjoy an outside coffee at McDonald’s at the corner of East-West Line, I observe non-customers dumping their household trash in the outside containers. These include Ontario, out-of-province and even out-of-country plated cars.

Motorists drive in and dump their trash, and if the containers are full, deposit them beside the container. Trash has included pieces of carpet and most recently an empty, pint-sized paint can. The paint can raises an environmental issue.

Surely the owner of this McDonald’s could review this past week’s security camera records, identify the paint can bandit and turn the data over to the police for prosecution.

This practice, plus empty coffee cups, etc., deposited on shelves in grocery stores, speaks volumes about our society of today.

Samuel Young
NOTL