In India, which is more populated than many bigger countries, it is usual practice to dump trash / daily garbage over the compound wall of your house (if it is a vacant plot of land on that side).
Some people who live at important / economically more costly areas of the city, will have regular garbage pickup, and a street corner garbage bin. Usually people litter more around the garbage bin, than into it. Even if people put it in the bin, the trash usually ends up being outside the bins... thanks to garbage pickers, street dogs, cows (which are freely allowed on roads in residential areas) which depend on leftovers in the bins.
While we all Indians thought and usually crib that our trash is so unorganized when compared to the so-called developed countries which are cleaner, it seems like the developed countries have developed ways keep clean by spoiling the entire planet rather than spoiling themselves.
Recently, I read that in-between America and Japan, in the vast waters and depths of the pacific ocean, there is a new island formed, where people haven't yet inhabited.. which is called by names like 'Plastic island', 'gyre', 'floating island of trash' etc.,
Chris Parry with the California Coastal Commission in San Francisco said the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, has been growing a brisk rate since the 1950s, The San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.
The trash stew is 80 percent plastic and weighs more than 3.5 million tons.
"At this point, cleaning it up isn't an option," Parry said. "It's just going to get bigger as our reliance on plastics continues."
... says a new item on it... dated back in 2007.
This is how this island was formed:
From trash thrown over by countries into the oceans, without place for it in their developed geography.
What you see in the picture by arrows are ocean water currents, which push or pull the floating objects.
Seen an Animated view of the above at GreenPeace website here.
Wikipedia details here on more such islands in formation in oceans all around us by different countries.
Well, I don't mean by all this that India dumps its garbage better.. but I guess as humans we have developed so badly forgotten our planet so far, that we are way out of returning or working around to become eco-friendly and reverse all effects of such trash islands, air pollution, etc.,
We are leaving behind a lot of *shit* for the future generation to clean up to even survive on earth.
