Dhaneesha’s Diary

Port Louis, which is the Capital of Mauritius, consists of many buildings, people, vehicles, hawkers, shops, rats, broken pavements, restaurants, traffic, pigeons, crows…etc wow so many things.

But do we see dustbins in the streets of Port Louis?????

Today, Yashvin and I, were walking from Kaddy + (La Poudriere Street) to DCDM near Champ de Mars with 1 delight yoghurt in yash’s hand and 1 chocolate Flan in mine. After having eaten our desserts, we started looking for a dustbin.

Alas, we searched everywhere but instead of dustbins, there were only FLOWER POTS everywhere on the street!

Believe me, it is not the first time that we have been searching for dustbins in Port Louis and, I think you will all agree with me.

Hopefully, near Alpha College, there were 3 dustbins!

Atleast some educational institutions are giving good examples by providing their own dustbins. This is only one example that I have stated, meaning La Poudriere Street, but there are many streets like this, without dustbins and waste can be found everywhere on those streets.
Very disgusting!
Another good example is the Caudan Waterfront.

We do have dustbins there but for what?

Only for publishing advertisements on them to beautify the environment and to make money out of them!

I do hope that actions are taken soon to place small dustbins everywhere to facilitate disposal of wastes and, to keep the environment clean instead of decorating our streets with flower pots !

Walking miles to see any such dustbins have become irritating and this is one of the main reasons why people throw plastic bags, papers, food …etc everywhere on the streets of Port Louis.
Almost every one of us says that Port Louis is always in a mess, but why is it in this state!

I do hope that actions are taken soon to place small dustbins everywhere to facilitate disposal of wastes and to keep the environment clean instead of decorating our streets with flower pots !