Residents in a number of Winnipeg neighbourhoods have flagged what they call a growing problem of garbage strewn about local streets and back alleys.
Although summer is beginning to wind down, Winnipeggers are still taking advantage of warm August weather, enjoying the great outdoors and taking in the smell of… trash.
“I think it’s horrendous,” said Daignault, who lives nearby. “It’s an eyesore, and definitely a hazard to our children around here. “I’ve gone through every avenue I can. If worse comes to worse, a few of us are going to get some hazard suits and start cleaning up. That’s a last resort, and we don’t want to, but it’s a hazard. We don’t want to see children get hurt.”
Area councillor Ross Eadie told Global News the city has ordered the owners of the property to clean up the mess.Winnipegger Clement Guimond, who lives near Main Street and Dufferin Avenue, says the garbage situation in the area is out of control.“It’s all over … there’s nothing but garbage,” Guimond said. “It shouldn’t be happening…. It is every day.
“After 30 years, we have gotten a large amount of the historic trash that had taken a century to build up, but there’s always new garbage being found, every year. We are making progress, but it kind of goes to show that if the summer team didn’t operate for any given year, we would rapidly return to the situation that the Seine was in during the ’80s.”
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