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By Nazrin Gadimova

Have you ever noticed what city do you live in and what streets are you walking on? Baku gets prettier every day. It delights residents and visitors with its fantastic contrasts in architecture. However, if you see some garbage right in front of you it will disappoint you.

When the city streets are clean, no one pays attention, but when there is a pile of garbage, everybody at once begins to talk about the need to keep up with the cleanliness. Many of us blame the city government, but mostly it is our own fault.

Baku is a clean city, but since we know that everything is relative in our world, then this statement is debatable. Yes, Baku city is relatively clean than Bombay, but is it as clean as we would like?

If the central streets of the city are being cleaned around the clock, the distant streets usually being cleaned only in the mornings. Every morning watchful workers of the municipality begin their not at all easy job. Cleaning the streets of the city only once or twice, they leave to monitor the purity to the residents themselves.

Unfortunately, some people can throw out an empty pack of cigarettes or a bottle of mineral water not in the trash, which, by the way, can be found everywhere, but right on the street, showing a disgusting example to others, who will do the same the next time.

If you ask this person: Why did you do that? He/she will answer you the standard "everybody throws, so do I."

Dear reader, you can imagine what will turn the streets of our capital city, if everyone acts according to this principle? I can confidently say that in this case, the dismal results of the scavengers strike in Madrid will seem ridiculous.

Yes, it is possible to carry out the so-called "cleaning days" - organized free labor for the benefit of society in spare time of the weekend. However, it will be easier to keep streets clean, than to bring everything to a state when the garbage is need to be shoveled?

I think all of us have ever cleaned at least his room, and know it is worth the effort. Now imagine what it takes to clean even one street.

Concluding this analysis, it must be said that throwing garbage not in a specially designated urn, people show disrespect - to some extent to those, who cleaned these streets, but mostly to themselves. Moreover, dirty city is not aesthetically pleasing and is unhygienic.

Thus, together we have to keep the city clean and appreciate the work of others.