There are three reasons why illegal dumping of garbage is wrong based on how it affects people financially.
There are many people who dump their garbage illegally wherever they can, causing unneeded extra costs to apartment buildings, businesses, and taxpayers.
People want to dump their garbage in existing garbage bins that belong to local businesses and residential buildings because they are too cheap to go to city hall and buy the tags that one can attach to their extra garbage bags for removal.
First, this act of rudeness limits the amount of garbage a company or tenants in an apartment building can throw away because their garbage bins are too full and their garbage pickup is a few days away.
As an apartment dweller, our garbage is only picked up once a week and hundreds of people in the area are illegally dumping their garbage and unwanted furniture, such as beds, dressers, couches, and other items.
This causes some people to stockpile their garbage or put it on the ground outside of the bin which becomes quite the eyesore.
When people do this, the apartment manager has to pay to remove these items and if the garbage is too full, pay for an extra dump. As a result, these extra costs make the tenants’ rent go up continuously to cover the extra fees that are accrued over the year.
Second, as for businesses like restaurants, malls, convenience stores, grocery stores, and many more, this extra cost reflects on the items one buys on a day-to day basis.
Eventually, prices go up so the company’s bottom line can even out because the business now has to arrange an extra dumping.
Finally, some rude people even go out of their way to drive to secluded areas, campgrounds or wherever they can to get rid of their unwanted garbage and furniture instead of doing the right thing and going to the local garbage dump.
This callous behaviour causes government work crews to have to clean this mess up which results in higher taxes over the long run.
It does not take much more time to remove garbage the right way, and if more people would realize the effects of their bad behavior and how costs of items such as rent, food, clothes, and other items which are needed on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis goes up because of the outcome of their behavior.
So, for those who are reading this, please, I urge and strongly suggest that we all do the right thing and dispose of our garbage properly because illegal dumping of garbage is not only wrong, it is immoral.
Garbage dumping causes people who do obey the law harm in the long run. This is not a victimless crime. This behaviour has got to stop due to the drastic way it affects those who obey the law.
Dean Timms
Vernon
