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It's not just Asia. Africa and Latin America are much the same. Curiously, Rwanda is a notable exception* - their authoritarian leader decided to spend a lot of
by 99052882514569 8y ago
It's not just Asia. Africa and Latin America are much the same. Curiously, Rwanda is a notable exception* - their authoritarian leader decided to spend a lot of manpower to keep everything clean, and I think there are also heavy fines for littering and dumping garbage.
* notable because usually the correlation is with income/culture, but Rwanda is not rich nor much different culturally from neighbouring trash-inundated countries.
- empath75 8y agoCosta Rica is also a notable exception. People there are obsessed with keeping stuff clean and protecting wildlife, because I think they understand how much their livelihood depends on tourism. It’s a huge difference between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, even though culturally the countries are very similar otherwise.
- gordo4 8y agoThey burn trash and toilet paper in the ditch beside the road in Guanacaste. To be fair, the roads aren't paved, and there are no gas stations or infrastructure. Yes, ecotourism is big in Costa Rica, but they aren't perfect either. Maybe only in the touristy areas....
- empath75 8y agoI have to admit that I didn’t get to far out into the country but even “touristy” parts of other Central American countries are full of garbage — the beaches and everything.
- emj 8y agoMandela wrote about this back in 1994 https://books.google.se/books?id=_ewvL93kFx4C&printsec=frontcover&hl=sv&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=%22plastic%20bags%22&f=false https://books.google.se/books?id=_ewvL93kFx4C&printsec=front... But that is South Africa, not really a poor African nation.