Why is our city not clean enough?

It is sad that Abu Dhabi, with such advanced infrastructure, is not so clean ( Overflowing rubbish on Abu Dhabi streets poses health risk, February 10). Look around and you will see cigarette butts on the street, plastic wrappers flying around, teacups left around, cats thriving on leftovers on the roadside, plastic bottles thrown out of cars and what not. Add to that the stench from the rubbish bins and the places where they are kept.

Only strict implementation of the littering law can solve the problem.

I was astonished to see that Colombo, which does not get much capital investment for such services, has clean streets and pavements. Name withheld by request I think this problem is faced by residents of almost all neighbourhoods in Abu Dhabi, although in some of them it’s more acute. In my area, the rubbish bins are always overflowing. I complained to the municipality a couple of times, after which the bins were cleared and the surrounding area cleaned regularly for some time. But again it came back to normal.

Sometime ago, the municipality replaced the open bins with the covered ones. They remained in place for a brief period after which they were again replaced by the open ones. I do not understand why it is so difficult for the municipality to keep these areas cleaned.

I often see workers going around collecting rubbish such as plastic bags, bottles and other things that are strewn around. They can only do this much.

Given the amounts of rubbish being collected in those bins every moment, there needs to be a system where they are emptied quickly.

At the same time, people who litter need to be fined heavily. This is not a difficult task. I fail to understand why such things are still not happening in this place. Deep Saranya, Abu Dhabi