Dear Editor:

Trending now is the oh-so-popular straw in a to-go cup. It’s a favourite of mine because I can usually attribute such litter to raccoons or other woodland creatures, or to seagulls.

But, the upright stance of a cup, as well as the far-from-precarious positioning of its straw, tells me that this is the work of a human. And being on a safe, flat ledge as so…

Last time, something resembling ranch dressing is what I found within one or two of these cups. I guess that could also be trending in litter: ranch-drinking, along with straws in to-go cups.

Would you mind pointing your gaze downward and approaching this trash can, to view the contents which lie within?

What does that make you think?

It’s like a sea of corpses isn’t it?

A coffee cup graveyard, of many (I assume). It’s weird that almost all of them are identical. As though they were targeted. This illustrates, rather well, how we build things – or an entire people – up only to turn around and destroy them by the masses.

It’s interesting how people are concerned with the health of their teeth, so much so that they use a straw to drink hot or acidic drinks, like coffee.

Yet, the amount of waste they endorse doesn’t bother them in the slightest.

Courtney Pamela,
Elora