Letter: Garbage shows lack of pride

Friday, Jan. 25, 2002 | 9:18 a.m.

Ten to 15 miles north of Las Vegas, on Interstate 15, our mouths dropped in horror as we came upon an endless stream of garbage.

On both sides of the highway and in the median were plastic bags, bottles, cans and a multitude of other items indistinguishable at 65 mph. On and on it went. Where was this garbage coming from? Did the garbage trucks hauling truckloads of garbage to the Apex dump have a horrible accident? It is inconceivable how so much trash could be misdirected via a normal week's task of relocating our valley's garbage.

No, we do not live with the I-15 beauty of the preserved Arizona Virgin River Gorge, or the entrance to Utah's southern Wasatch Mountains Range, but don't we deserve to have our portion of the Mojave Desert clean of basic household garbage?

Where is the pride in our community when no one seems to care whether our garbage makes it to the dump, or is dumped on the sides of our highways.

BETH E. GABRIEL

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