http://aquacool.subzeroblue.com/2005/03/30/collecting-plastic-waste/ Drops of dew to tickle your senses. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:16:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://aquacool.subzeroblue.com/2005/03/30/collecting-plastic-waste/#comment-251597 AquaCool » Blog Action Day; In The Arab World… Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:49:33 +0000 #comment-251597 [...] One can still see people throwing garbage out their car windows; a study showed that Arabs alone throw away around 25 billion plastic bags on daily basis! one can also easily spot water leaking from street pipes, or water flowing out water hoses. Little is actually being done to reduce pollution levels, let alone stop it. Not to mention the sad fact that relatively few Arab countries provide recycling services, and in those few countries only few people do actually use those services, and among those only few do it correctly. But it has to be said though, that the attention recycling is getting has been growing over the years. Taking the country I live in currently, Tunisia, as an example, 3 years ago, I looked really stupid when I used to separate my plastic waste from the rest of my garbage, since there were no recycling services provided to the public. Now the project that started 2 years ago as a contest to spread awareness has turned out to be a big success and there are plastic-waste containers almost everywhere now for the public to comfortably fill with plastic waste. [...] […] One can still see people throwing garbage out their car windows; a study showed that Arabs alone throw away around 25 billion plastic bags on daily basis! one can also easily spot water leaking from street pipes, or water flowing out water hoses. Little is actually being done to reduce pollution levels, let alone stop it. Not to mention the sad fact that relatively few Arab countries provide recycling services, and in those few countries only few people do actually use those services, and among those only few do it correctly. But it has to be said though, that the attention recycling is getting has been growing over the years. Taking the country I live in currently, Tunisia, as an example, 3 years ago, I looked really stupid when I used to separate my plastic waste from the rest of my garbage, since there were no recycling services provided to the public. Now the project that started 2 years ago as a contest to spread awareness has turned out to be a big success and there are plastic-waste containers almost everywhere now for the public to comfortably fill with plastic waste. […]

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