'Unbelievable' amount of trash dumped in woods, says Harbour Grace man

Spending time near the province's bogs, forests and ponds is supposed to be one of the best things about living in Newfoundland and Labrador. However for a Harbour Grace man, that is becoming more difficult as people continue to dump garbage wherever they feel like it.

Davis Bishop and his wife Cathy decided to go for a walk near the New Harbour Barrens over the Victoria Day weekend, to enjoy nature and take advantage of the unusual nice weather.

However, what they found was anything but — and discovered that for some people, the great outdoors is nothing more than a dumping site.

"It was unbelievable," he told CBC's St. John's Morning Show.

"There was TVs, toilets, construction materials — just thrown over the side of the bank."

Bishop said he has seen the same thing in many other areas of the province, and thinks it's time something is done.

"There has to be some sort of conversation where people start recognizing that we have a beautiful province and we're using it as a landfill," he said.

"There's no need of it when you can just come up to the transfer site and dump it off."

Bishop said the most common things he sees are Tim Hortons and McDonald's cups. He added the area around the Outer Ring Road in St. John's is especially bad.

He would like to see a cleanup project take place, and in the meantime plans on pitching in himself to try and make a dent in the litter.

"There has to be a major effort to clean up our road ways and highways," he said.

"I'm to a point where I am going to take some garbage bags and start cleaning it up on my own."