In Reply to: Enviro bags posted by cherill on Sunday, 1. January 2012 at 17:50 Bali Time:
Hey what a great idea!!! If more people did this it would certainly help the cause, right?
I think why this has become an issue is the fact that the Balinese
don't see the ever growing mounds of rubbish lying on the roadside
and overflowing bins as a problem.................they have learnt to live with it. (and so have we the tourists).
What is really needed is a shakeup of the whole sanitation thing. They need to realise that emptying bins etc and clearing up rubbish needs to be done on a regular basis and disposed of properly at a rubbish dump with proper environmental procedures.
This involves education and of course alot of money to establish.
In the mean time we can be more mindful of disposing rubbish eg
reduce, recycle and recover and say NO!!! to plastic bags.
Just adding my 2 bob's worth to the debate.