While we promote our country as clean and green, this is a lie of truly gigantic proportions.
How and why can I say that?
Some years ago I babysat a dog in the Kerikeri area. Part of the deal was exercising him, so for six weeks every day we walked different bits of the road in the area and I picked up aluminium cans on the verges. There are 51 cans to a kilogram and at the end of the time I had in excess of 4,000 cans. (The dog's owners could hardly believe it.)
And this was just cans! Few people would believe just what was there even if they did see it! There is, quite simply, all sorts of rubbish of all sizes and shapes, all around the country.
The government, and other parties are going on about jobs, which we all know are not there, and still we pay people to do nothing! So let's give some vehicles, appoint supervisors from their ranks, and send them out to help get our country cleaner and greener, and go on keeping it that way.
Te Radar tells us that they are doing this in Rwanda! Let them earn their dole money! Perhaps the 20 hours community service NZ First recommends for the unemployed, could be utilised in this manner?

R McGuinness, Tauranga.