Photo: Garbage collectors: volunteers planning Iqaluit clean up

Scraps of mystery metal, bits of plastic, canisters, shards of broken glass, junk food wrappers and crushed beer and pop cans cover the area around Iqaluit’s causeway. Iqaluit resident Lana Dawiskiba is organizing a clean up at the causeway on Saturday July 25 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Some garbage bags and cotton gloves are being provided by the City of Iqaluit but people are welcome to bring their own supplies. The group is starting on the causeway’s shoreline and will work its way towards the dump area. “It really is breathtakingly beautiful. And you go out there and you see the ocean and the rocks — we went out there to hopefully see the belugas again and then you turn around and see all the garbage, it’s actually kind of depressing,” Dawiskiba said.”I know a lot of it’s from the dump. But a lot of people just bring their garbage and leave it, and they don’t take it back with them and it makes me sad.” (PHOTO BY DAVID MURPHY)