And the weirdest thing of all is, this isn't just Cyprus behaviour. I've walked around lakes back in the UK and found similar amounts of litter. Especially in places where they don't think people will notice. Fishermen, get your act together and take your rubbish home with you! Act like grown-ups, not spoilt children.

Now I know that a lot of fishermen will take their rubbish home with them. Please, if that is you, rest assured, I am not having a pop at you. In fact, you must be even more fed up with this situation than we are. You have to sit surrounded by this junk that other people have left.

So if you do clear up after yourself, please don't get cross about this blog. Hopefully it will do a little bit of good and prick people's consciences, and your next fishing trip won't be so messy.

When you walk along the coast, a lot of the rubbish you see will have been washed to shore from passing ships. This is not the case here. Evretou Reservoir doesn't have a maritime tradition. All this junk has been left be fishermen.

So fishermen, please please please take your rubbish home with you. You brought it with you, so you can take it away again. Otherwise, your fishing excursions will become less and less fun, as you gradually drown in your own sea of rubbish.

And if anybody has rubbish at home they need to get rid of, don't dump it in the nearest patch of wasteland. Take it to one of the Green Points. There are five of them now in Paphos, and I am very pleased to say they are getting used more and more frequently. When we first started using them a year ago, we rarely saw anybody else while we were unloading our garden waste. Now though we often have company, and it is usually Cypriots, too.

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