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Belgium, for the dog sh1t that lies in the designated children's play areas, which are fenced off but the locals deliberately allow their 4 legged friends to poop there.
That was 20 years ago, observed when I lived there for a while, so perhaps they have cleaned up their act.
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Southern Pakistan (i.e. Sindh), unbelievable dirt, makes India look pretty clean.

Dhaka in Bangladesh comes pretty close.
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Belgium, for the dog sh1t that lies in the designated children's play areas, which are fenced off but the locals deliberately allow their 4 legged friends to poop there.
That was 20 years ago, observed when I lived there for a while, so perhaps they have cleaned up their act.
Yeah I've seen that recently and it's "spread" to Luxembourg, including on the gas station forecourt........footrests.....and hotel reception in Metz

Also I was quite taken back in a very rural part of Turkey to see 1000's of water bottles spread across the countryside. I could only assume they got carried there by the wind or dumped from a truck?

But yes India has a lot of plastic in a lot of areas but thankfully not everywhere......yet
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Plastic is good for some items, but I just cannot understand why everything needs to be wrapped in to it (like each candy inside a candy bag).
It just annoys me when there is a really beautiful scenery, but it is completely ruined by empty bottles, plastic bags, paper etc (like pan american highway on northern Peru).

I can understand in the cities if it is dirty because there is no proper handling of a trash, but I cannot understand adults in those areas who throw trash everywhere (from moving cars etc).

So sad to see these things
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Plastic is good for some items, but I just cannot understand why everything needs to be wrapped in to it (like each candy inside a candy bag).
It just annoys me when there is a really beautiful scenery, but it is completely ruined by empty bottles, plastic bags, paper etc (like pan american highway on northern Peru).

I can understand in the cities if it is dirty because there is no proper handling of a trash, but I cannot understand adults in those areas who throw trash everywhere (from moving cars etc).

So sad to see these things
I remember reading an account of some guys travelling through the sahara. they stopped to look at some site of rock art and someone else that was there threw some rubbish on the floor.When they were admonished for it their response was 'why would I worry, I'm not coming here again'

As long as there are nobbers like that in the world, we haven't got a chance
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The Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool. I shit you not, one of the dirtiest hotels I've ever stayed in!!
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about hotels...
About Hotels that must have been the hotel in Balakan, Azerbajzan. It's quite a few years ago now, so things will have changed.

The room hadn't seen any water for the last I don't know how many years. There was a pile in the toilet, everything was black and grubby (I mean everything).

Some people on the street new about the state of the rooms. They tought it was unacceptable for us to stay in that place and offerd us to stay in their home. We gladly accepted. All without common language.
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I don't know where I seen it, but it was a novelty bin. More like a goal netting by some traffic light's. More or less throw your rubbish in to the goal and a light show's goal. You would be surprised just how much was going in to the net. Bin men round empty netting, re set goal. A few more of them around and the place would be cleaner.
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