I find that hard to believe given how much you've traveled in Africa. I've only been to Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, and the Congo, and the roadside/hillside trash I've seen there is, well, significant.
Which Countries Have the Worst Litter?
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Yes, South African townships are much worse in overall volume, but the wind seems to concentrate them densely in specific locations here. I did not see much trash volume anywhere in the other southern African countries or in more rural areas though, but I realize that remote locations attractive to tourists may not be representative.
I see the trash problem as a big city issue in Africa. So it was kind of weird to see it out in the boonies here when Tashkent seems like a fairly normal city to me.
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To be fair to Africa, New Jersey has a major trash problem on highway on-ramps in urban/suburban areas (the highways themselves and the off-ramps are always clean). This has been going on for decades and the DOT is very slow to send out crews.
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I make the 6.5 hr drive (mostly very beautiful) at least once every winter from SLC to Las Vegas. Have a tradition of meeting friends there every Super Bowl. Between about 10 to 20 miles north of Vegas on I15 there is a ton of trash caught in tumbleweeds along the side of the interstate. I've seen it every year. Looks real bad. I guess it blows up the desert from the city where it follows the interstate corridor and collects in the bushes? Maybe there's a dump nearby? Nothing quite like it along other interstates I travel around the USA.