Litter & Recycling Problems

Federal Way's unsightly litter, garbage and recycling problems have been pretty much unaddressed by the current mayor, Jim Ferrell, who is apparently too busy running errands for his Big Business cronies.  Our, meaning the planet's, major oceans and seaways are being thoroughly destroyed by pollution and trash, with gargantuan garbage build-ups in some of them, and by "gargantuan," we mean the size of some of our states.  Coral reefs, marine life and wildlife are being devastated; all of which are an omen of a greater environmental disaster, which would inevitably have untold but negative effects on humanity.  Today's politicians, by and large, are doing absolutely nothing about this, but if doing absolutely nothing was not bad enough, at least they could take modest steps to keep the awfully bad from getting worst, by implementing and enforcing rigorous recycling rules, cutting down the amount of overall waste through special programs, and doing simple things like making sure plastic bag sales in grocery stores and other shops are drastically curtailed. 

Moreover, we need police enforcement and heavier fines for littering, and an ethics program in the schools to teach youngsters that littering is a bad thing to do and despoiling their own city.  It would help if the city doubled or tripled the number of trash & recycling containers throughout the city.  There are lots of things the city government could do to improve the looks of our city, but the boondoggle-adrift Ferrell government is just whiling away time and doing pretty much nothing.

-- Mark Greene (Federal Way Exploratory Mayoral Committee)

Website:  All-American Relief

[Revised on May 2, 2017.]