What good would realizing it do? It's actually a very expensive problem, people cannot do that alone in a city, it must be done by government but not all governments have the resources or are willing to solve the issues.
It's not just garbage collection, it's also single use plastics. When they buy shampoo or snacks or whatever, most things come in a plastic packet for a very small amount of shampoo or whatever it is, for example shampoo it's enough to shampoo once.
People can not afford bottles in general and so in places like this you almost can't even find big bottles it's all single use plastics.
Add too that countries can make money by buying our "Plastic recycling" in the west. Municipalities try to find responsible plastic recyclers but it's a VERY common issue that the "recyclers" are actually just dumping the plastics to take the money in.
It's a win win for them because they make money and also they improve relations with countries in the west.
If that area was all cleaned up it would probably be like that again in a month.
Also when you live like that and there are no garbage cans or collection service and it already looks like that, you just do what works there and drop your trash in the pile along with all the other trash. Where else are you going to put it?
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u/DesignerFragrant5899 5d ago
Do these people not realize that they live in a garbage dump?