What continues to mar our experience at local beaches is their littered state. I understand that we need to continue educating ourselves to keep our environment clean and litter-free. But shouldn't the authorities clean the beaches more frequently until public education really kicks in?

When the condition of the beaches is already in such a littered state, beach goers don't think twice about littering. The only clean beach that comes to mind is in Sentosa. In other countries, beaches are cleaned frequently, usually in the early morning before the crowd arrives.

The cleaners at our beaches restrict themselves to cleaning the walking pathways and to emptying the trash bins. Another obvious need: more bins and bigger ones which can hold the large amount of rubbish and which can withstand the robust sea breeze.

Kevin Chua Hock Meng