Livni Wrote
"I don't see a garbage in the streets problem, maybe south tel Aviv with shop owners not careful about keeping them clean. I think we have to just live in a way that makes less garbage, recycle our stuff. we have a culture of throwing everything old in favor of new gadgets and furniture, its really in the dna here of adopting anything new as better than anything old (example - the plasma tv mania, the ikea mania) so yes it creates huge amounts of garbage"
It must be an Israeli way of not seeing the forest from the trees. Everywhere you look in Tel-Aviv there is trash and it just sits there in every conner. I'm talking about the nice parts of town Rothchild and north Tel-Aviv. There must be an expectation that a bit of trash in the streets is normal and not important. I was in New York and there is some trash in the streets but it was 10% of what I saw in Tel-Aviv. The difference I think is that the buildings and commercial enterprises will be fined if they don't keep the areas next to their buildings clean. Just look at how full many of the trash bins are. Often there isn't enough room and there is stuff spilling out. The collectors don't take what isn't in the bin and what falls out isn't picked up. |