I have travelled extensively, and my experiences in places where rubbish piled up - in tourist areas as well, like coral reefs - made it very hard to understand for me. I pick up rubbish in my own neighbourhood if I see it.
I agree that travel is a great way to look back though your own lens and see how you see the world.
Oh man, do we have a lot in common. I happen to spend a lot of time in the Gulf at the moment. Recycling is new, and the divide between Westerners long since acclimdated from their own environs and the stark opposite is amusing.
Here, fully industrialized recycling has caught on, but white man's guilt is a special problem, as people like you and I only help to fill facilities overflowing with recyclables that cannot ship-and-sell locally, regionally, or globally.
The stigma from childhood in the US stays bad enough for me, I sometimes avoid tossing things and leave in the car 1-2 days just to recycle it at a rare recycling facility in my housing complex.
Oh, and ironically no one in desert recycles glass. Intentional?
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I have travelled extensively, and my experiences in places where rubbish piled up - in tourist areas as well, like coral reefs - made it very hard to understand for me. I pick up rubbish in my own neighbourhood if I see it.
I agree that travel is a great way to look back though your own lens and see how you see the world.
Oh man, do we have a lot in common. I happen to spend a lot of time in the Gulf at the moment. Recycling is new, and the divide between Westerners long since acclimdated from their own environs and the stark opposite is amusing.
Here, fully industrialized recycling has caught on, but white man's guilt is a special problem, as people like you and I only help to fill facilities overflowing with recyclables that cannot ship-and-sell locally, regionally, or globally.
http://dohanews.co/qatar-dumps-400-tons-waste-daily-landfill...
The stigma from childhood in the US stays bad enough for me, I sometimes avoid tossing things and leave in the car 1-2 days just to recycle it at a rare recycling facility in my housing complex.
Oh, and ironically no one in desert recycles glass. Intentional?