Toxins for the Fourth
Editor, The Times:
After reading “Puget Sound’s slow oil spill” [Opinion, May 20], I thought how the Northwest has one of the most concerned and environmentally devoted populations in the country, except on the Fourth of July.
Has anyone noticed how the awareness our actions take a vacation every July? How many thousands of tons of toxic byproducts do we send into our local waters in the form of incendiary fireworks? Residents all along the waterfront spend hours doing this with abandon.
What percentage of the yearly toxins that we send into our waters occurs on our nation’s birthday? Think about that.
— Steven Short, Mercer Island