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From the monthly archives: May 2012
Waste Management
Bulgaria was the first country on our route where we observed land fill sites which were fenced.
Recycling
Recycling was available in the larger towns. However, from discussions with residents, recycling seems not to be widespread and recycling facilities are not always available.
Plastic Consumption
Waste Management
We found that Turkey had an organized rubbish collection system, and the landfills were centralized, serving a number of communities, and were therefore very much larger than in Iran. The landfills we saw were not fenced.
Rubbish bins were widespread, even in remote locations.
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I should have known I was going to have my issues with Iran, when an officious member of the crew told me I had to put on my chador almost as soon as we had scrambled up into the seating deck on the ferry. I could feel the usually dormant feminist within me [...]
Our passion is the great outdoors. We love to discover new places, but unfortunately we have encountered all too often the destructive effects of plastic pollution in the most remote corners of the globe.
Thus the idea came to combine the two – a great journey with a great cause. PlasticNotSoFantastic was born…
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