Residents of Townsville, Queensland were amazed to see contractors mowing the esplanade on Charter Towers Road.
Mowing esplanades is a common practice in practically any city in the civilized world, so what’s the big deal? Well the green on these esplanades is AstroTurf !
As the Townsville mayor, Jenny Hill, explains, there has been a major problem with people littering and throwing their cigarette butts out of passing cars, and the butts adhere to the AstroTurf. "So they're not actually mowing grass, as much as people would have laughed and pointed it out, they were using it as a vacuum to suck up the butts."
Rather than give them “Attaboys” for a clever solution – the mower does pick up the litter and deposit it in the grass catcher attachment - the city council has asked the contractor to find another way to do the job, “so they won’t look like idiots.”
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