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No people no trash.
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Not true. These days you will even find plastic waste on some remote Islands without any people 
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Where can they take their trash?
Ancient history here in our own backyard, near as 1950-'70, in rural areas everyone had a trash pile. Usually some ditch, some dating back a few generations.
When these are found today we gleefully excavate them for treasures of the past.
Few years ago I worked on a bridge in Fairbanks. On one end was an old dump, I found old bottles, shoes, clothes, mule and horse shoes with ice cleats dating from early gold mining days. All treasures.
If there were not organized clean ups of the US highways constantly, there would be piles of trash everywhere. Some are done under armed guard.
I have been on I-10 in Tucson when it looked like the backstreets of Tijuana, where I am right now.
People here in TJ go out every day and sweep in front of their house, cleaning up the trash from the night before. In the early morning the homeless (a lot of deportees from the US) go through the trash looking for value, bottles, cans, etc.
Maybe when the vote comes up again for local container laws, some of our support could be used.
So I try not to judge the trash on the roads as I travel by my skewed standard. 
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Where can they take their trash?
So I try not to judge the trash on the roads as I travel by my skewed standard.
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Yep, the last few posts have expressed my own thoughts when I nominated Belgium.
Because the good folks of that country would say that they are part of the civilised world and yet they either allow their pooches to provide a health hazard for their children or they turn a blind eye to the act; in short, they have choices to make.
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You don´t want to visit the place of one of my many SIL´s ..... just saying. 
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+1 Kayjay, that's why I live in montana USA
This is just my personal opinion after traveling in poor areas where there isn't a garbage truck that comes around regularly;
Two words of advice if you don't like the way people treat their country, stay home. Save your criticisms of other countries for a more appropriate venue such as "cruises international of the rich and famous" .
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I don't see criticisms here Bill as much as just observations with a bit of comment and color tossed in.
Sure, you can stay home ... I'd rather be out there learning ... and in some cases ... teaching or at the very least, helping with financial support through legit channels (very few).
This exchange of ideas ... and smiles may even promote world PEACE!
Who knows? 
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In 1979 whilst diving (working) under a ship in the port of Champa on the Ganges, apart from layers of black slime - god knows what it was made up of it was a filthy silage and rotten rubbish, plastic, leather and wood in the murky waters we also found two very decomposed bodies wrapped in shrouds trapped amongst some metal that had been dumped into the water. not a place for swimming the Ganges. !
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In 1979 whilst diving (working) under a ship in the port of Champa on the Ganges, apart from layers of black slime - god knows what it was made up of it was a filthy silage and rotten rubbish, plastic, leather and wood in the murky waters we also found two very decomposed bodies wrapped in shrouds trapped amongst some metal that had been dumped into the water. not a place for swimming the Ganges. !
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Wow! Ganges must have been a real sewer... 
It is still dirty, but should be cleaner than earlier.
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A bog in Goa, I kid you not I opened the door and nearly spewed, it was a squat that had obviously become blocked at some distant point in time but that hadnt put off about another fifty people from taking a ship in there and just adding to the mountain of excrement.
The mound of turd was level with my waste!!! they must have been some brave tall folk who helped shape that peice of arese art.
Taking the overnight train into Bombay was also an eye opener, as you get nearer to the city centre all the locals walk out to the railway lines and take their morning dump!! it's like welcome to Mumbai see a thousand bums before breakfast!!
then again the bogs at glastonburry aint much cop either!! 
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Well you must have plenty of trash over there Kayjay because you have quite a few inhabitants in your country.... 
The dirtiest place I have ever been to is Kathmandu in Nepal... 
There is rubbish everywhere & on sidewalks & street corners, in the road & propped up outside buildings (mainly street shops).
The people seem to have no comprehension of tidiness, & have a disinterest in making their environment look better.
There is a river running through part of the city that has more rubbish in it than my local City trash dump here in Branson!
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Pakistan
I've been into Peru, yes the north is sort of dirty with rubbish, India is filthy too but nothing in my mind beats filth of Pakistan. The buildings are dirty, the streets are dirty, even some of the cooks in roadside cafes are dirty. The walls of hotels are dirty, the appliances are dirty.
The streets are dirty due to lack of infrastructure but there is no excuse for simple things like beds, light switches, toilets etc being filthy.
Parts of India can be like that too.
Its nothing to do with poverty, it just needs soap and water. Contrast with central america where people arent exactly rich but the streets are swept cleaner than many places in Europe. They take pride in where they live.
On another note, I was looking to place a wrapper in India. I asked some local who said throw it on the street, I ended up having mild argument why the place was a tip. His response was "the government should do something". In reply, I was annoyed and told him that "No. You people should do something"!
enough of my waffle ... just my opinion and how I saw it.
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"Have a good day with no pollution" Huanchaco, Perú
No littering
No fires
No camping
No pissing
No pooping
No animals
No eating on the beach
No alcohol
No glass
No loud noise
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No littering
No fires
No camping
No pissing
No pooping
No animals
No eating on the beach
No alcohol
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shaggings allright then 
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xfiltrate eat, drink and ... but not in Huanchaco, Peru
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