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Things you don’t need any more, you just throw away. Right where you are.
That’s what seems to be the mentality in Kuwait. Especially at the beach.
If you go there every day and collect all kinds of clothes and utilities, you have half a wardrobe and household together at the end of the week….

Nicht mehr benoetigt

Sachen, die man nicht mehr braucht, schmeisst man einfach weg. Da, wo man grade steht. So scheint jedenfalls die Mentalitaet in Kuwait zu sein. Besonders am Strand.
Wenn man hier jeden Morgen in der Woche her kommt und alles an Haushaltswaren und Klamotten aufsammelt, hat man Ende der Woche einen halben Kleiderschrank und einen halben Hausstand zusammen….

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Mrs Scriber asked me a short while back, if we have a recycling system in Hungary.

I said no, not really. Especially not where we are.

Wrong.

We have recycling containers. I remembered. And they are not even far away.
Sometimes I’m a real moron.

Oh well, at least the paper & the plastic bottles will go there from now on.

My first step to do something for Blog Green

I also set up a little place on the web as a clean spot for Information about what we have done so far.
If someone has more ideas, let me know.

I’m not a web developer, so bare with my attempts in html patchwork.

Mrs Scriber from Scriber’s Web had the idea to do a project about trash.
To go and take pictures of trash.

I go one step further and call you to go out into nature with me in January or into your neighborhood, take big trash bags and gloves with you.
Take pictures, lots of them. Before, during and after collecting the mess of our fellow countrymen.

Let’s post the pictures on our blogs, at least.
Let’s send them to CNN ireport or any other news agency.
Let’s make some noise.

Are you game?

I am.

Raise your hand in the comment section and I’ll add you to the list:

* NicoleB (Hungary)
* Chikapappi (Kuwait)
* Scriber’s Web (US)
* Oreneta (Greece)
* Dan (US)
* Paddy (Buenos Aires)
* Kontan (US)
* Stephanie (US)
* Gradiva (Spain)
* Nebz (Saudi Arabia)
* Patricia Maria (Portugal)
* Beth (Canada)
* The Bodhi Chicklet (Canada)
* Terri (US)
* Carla (USA)
* J.G. (USA)

Update:

The website is up and running - check it out

Trash is something that always bugs me when I find it outside.
Especially when I find it in nature.

It is so unnecessary.

It bugged me in Korea.
It bugged me in Kuwait.
And it is bugging me here.

We found big piles of it yesterday.

In the forest.

In a well.

Stuff from old walls on the roads to cover the holes (at least that makes sense sort of).

A big pile of something. They burn wood and stuff out of the gardens here and more than often plastics as well.
I stopped walking past here in the summer, because it always stinks and makes me wanna puke.

And the all around a"new” Hotel project in “town".
The project goes on since two years.
They are renovating an old complex, but that’s another story.

Fact is they just dump their trash all around the property.
And nobody gives a shit.