Waihi Beach - clean & green

Image from Peter Levshin

Guests recently from California USA commented on how clean New Zealand and Waihi Beach was compared to the USA. They also noted how green everything was.

We explained our local climate and that it can get very dry but it depends on what you are comparing it to. They were comparing it to California USA where in summer it can get really dry and brown

As for the clean - my own thoughts were not the same as theirs. I cringe at the beach here when I see rubbish dumped on the side of the road or rubbish bags left on the roadside and rubbish day has been and gone. The sides of the road are often littered with rubbish tossed out of cars and now somone else has to pick it up to make it look clean - very frustrating and not a good look for the general perception of Waihi Beach being a clean & tidy town.

We all need to take responsibility for our own rubbish to contibute to the bigger picture.
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