By Bryan Manabat
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Variety News Staff
COMMUNITY volunteer and environmental advocate Max Aguon is urging residents to stop dumping household items at the Paupau Beach trash bin and to dispose of their trash properly.
Aguon, who also works for the Division of Parks and Recreation, said household items — including chairs, pillows, and other materials that do not belong to beachgoers — were dumped in the area Wednesday.
“There are other ways to dispose of household items, and this is not the first time this has happened,” Aguon said.
He added that similar dumping has occurred at Smiling Cove Marina.
The CNMI has an anti-littering law, but it is seldom enforced, if at all.
Bryan Manabat was a liberal arts student of Northern Marianas College where he also studied criminal justice. He is the recipient of the NMI Humanities Award as an Outstanding Teacher (Non-Classroom) in 2013, and has worked for the CNMI Motheread/Fatheread Literacy Program as lead facilitator.
