The Garbage Menace ¿ what is it, how is it hazardous, what can we do about it? The Garbage Menace is the first book in Footprint: A Belizean Environmental Series aimed at enlightening Belizeans about the issues affecting their health and environment. It shakes you to your foundations at first, and leaves you wondering if all is lost. The book then ends with loads of ideas about how we can make our country, and the world, a better place to live. It is easy reading with cartoons by the author.