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WORONORA CEMETARY


The Sutherland Shire has a beautiful final resting place for it's citizens called Woronora Cemetery and Crematorium, situated not far from Sutherland station, and where I have for years taken our two dogs for early morning walks.

Jake

and Jessie

As I walked around I noticed an increasing number of the discarded lengths of nylon whipper snipper cords thrown on grave sites,(not very respectful) and on the ground between the graves and paths.

Nylon cords not being bio-degradable would be there for years littering the place.

The common sense thing to do would be to put the unused cord end in your pocket, and place in the next waste bin you pass.

No, throwing them willy nilly on graves and pathways is easier.

I took to picking them up as I went and binning them myself.

Another thing I noticed was in a newer part of the Cemetery was that there was only one rubbish bin there and it was always overflowing

A similar size bin

Common sense would be to add a new one, or remove a rarely used bin from an older area and relocate it there.

You would think the bin man having to pick up the overflow all the time, would suggest to the management for an extra bin to be put there himself.

There are extra green wheelie bins in other busy ethnic sections.

One morning I collected a "birds nest" of whipper snipper ends and approached the Cemetery office reception desk (a little sheepishly) as this all was a little trivial and should not be necessary.

I explained that maybe the person in charge of the staff could ask the men not to litter the place, and because (I said jokingly) eventually the cemetery would just be a pile of lengths of nylon cord.

"Could I have your name sir?"

Jokingly (once again) I said, "If I give you my name someone might throw nylon ends on my grave (later) because I've dared to point out staff shortcomings."

Did I give my name and did the lawn mowing staff clean up their act?

Did grieving relatives have somewhere to dispose of old floral tributes in the Jacaranda section, or did they continue to have to have to pile them around the one overflowing bin?

To be continued.

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A bit of common sense and there would be no nylon litter and that bin overflowing not once or twice, but every week for months and months would've be looked at earlier.

Weeks went by and the nylon litter continued and Jacaranda lawn still had one overflowing bin.

I collected another bundle of nylon ends and handed them with a letter to the office receptionist.

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Dear sir

So that I wouldn't be regarded as someone who just looks for something to whinge about, I found in a very short time, this collection of trimmer ends in an area I don't normally go to.

Your letter (thank you) tells me that the workers will be spoken to but I have found more where there has been recent work.

Of course you can tell the men to dispose of this litter properly but it's up to them to do it. but I note also that there is still only one overflowing bin at Jacaranda Lawn, so much so that people are now putting rubbish (against regulations) in the plastic vase-only bin.

To get workers to do the right thing about disposing of cord ends is one thing, but how difficult is it for you to organize to slap in an extra bin

Thank you
Hans Stephens.

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This note obviously struck a cord, as I received a polite letter back (which I can't find at the moment) nicely telling me to mind my own business.

POSTSCRIPT:

It is now very rarely that I see a whipper snipper cord end anywhere in the acres of Cemetery, and there are two enclosed wheelie bins, painted in very bright red (which blends in well with all the greenery) as well as TWO extra wheelie bins at the Jacaranda Lawn section,

to replace that ONE overflowing bin I dared mention, we now have these FOUR large bins.

Why was is all so difficult?
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Update:

There seems to have been a re-think about the red bins and now the preferred colour is a more demure one

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Sometimes a suggestion or obvervation is noted, and acted upon

Near Sutherland Station there is a commutor carpark from where poor Janine Balding was abducted by lowlife and murdered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Janine_Balding

The Council resealed the car park and planted shurbs along the road frontage.

These shrubs over the years grew into a hedge that hid most of the carpark from the passing traffic,and lowlife like those that murdered Janine like to hide to do their dirty work.

I wrote to the Council pointing out that someone from a nearby business had the front seats stolen from his car in broad daylight with the thieves doing their work hidden by the hedge.

I asked if something could be done to make it safer for commuters returning to their vehicles.

The following week every 2nd shrub was gone and the rest pruned to "improve sight lines"

Two years on and to show my suggestion was valid, I took this photo today 21/7/09

now you can more clearly see what's going on in the carpark.