those installations along the roads would reduce random littering by probably 30 % immediately (fun factor)

worked wonders in other countries.

Just did a search to see if there are any laws in place when it comes to littering,.
Closest thing I could find was

Sub-decree on Management of Garbage and Solid Waste of Downtowns Article 40

Any person who brings a package or bin of garbage and solid waste of downtown to
the street or public site not at permitted time to be discharged determined by capital,
municipal, district and khan administration as stipulated in Article 17 of shall be subject to
transactional fines as follows:

• 20,000 (twenty thousand) riels for housing

• 150,000 (one hundred and fifty thousand) riels for business sites, service sites,
  handicraft sites, condominiums, apartments and gate communities

• 400,000 (four hundred thousand) riels for industries, enterprises and companies.

In case of recidivism, the transactional fine shall be in a double amount of the previous
transactional fine.

https://www.ajne.org/sites/default/file ... slated.pdf

A $5 fine for littering, what a joke. Lol

Littering, it's something most know they shouldn't really do but often do it anyway. Maybe it's a 'fuck anyone who tries to tell me what to do' thing, maybe just a mixture of apathy, ignorance, and force of habit, who knows. As a westerner who has spent a lot of time in Asia, it's something I've often thought about.

One thing I am sure of though, the face thing comes into it big time, at least when foreigners are in any way involved.

I worked in a school where the students and their parents treated the place like a pigsty, they'd drop their shit on the floor when the bin was literally two steps away. The (western owned and operated school) tried to start an education thing once with signs on the walls and part of a class dedicated to teaching the kids about it - don't litter, keep your city clean and all that, and if anything the littering got worse. We pretty much took it as a passive-aggressive way of them saying 'don't tell us what to do in our country'.

But then I've seen it happen twice where foreigners, not trying to be preachy, not trying to shame anyone or make a big scene, take it on themselves to quitely start cleaning up the mess left by people. Once was an event with a few hundred people in a field dropping their takeaway food containers everywhere and a foreign guy started going around afterward with a bag picking up all the crap. Within a few minutes there were a dozen people cleaning up and people were buying him beers, and telling him as a guest he didn't need to be doing that.

The other time was a rubbish workers strike - they were demanding unpaid wages or something. There was a huge pile of rotting waste covered in rats and a few of the foreigners who lived there approached an official asking if they could chip in together to pay the people what they were owed and get the problem sorted - it would be their way of giving back to the community. A local resident got wind of it and went to the media who refused to print the story saying it would be a huge loss of face for the local officials and residents. Their offer was refused but the issue was sorted out almost immediately.

I don't know if the face concept and all the rules around it are the same everywhere in Asia but I suspect that instead of ( or maybe as well as) well intentioned posters trying to educate people, a few volunteers spending an afternoon quietly picking up litter would go a long way towards changing the way people think.

There have anti littering campaigns running here for years and years

There's even a "Clean City" competition and awards


Anti littering material is taught in schools and I see less litter than before - still too much of course - but it's going in the right direction

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 2:18 pm There have anti littering campaigns running here for years and years

There's even a "Clean City" competition and awards


Anti littering material is taught in schools and I see less litter than before - still too much of course - but it's going in the right direction

That's good to hear. It was probably before my time but there was a thing in NZ years ago, not sure when - you still hear the phrase 'be a tidy Kiwi' - I think it was in the media etc, and designed to stop people littering.

Things like that don't happen overnight but they do work.

Well, you've got to get to the main cause, which is the humans and their habit of synthesizing artificial materials, mainly plastic. They also manufacture various "products" which require "packaging", which is the main component in "litter".

However, once you realize that the universe is one thing, then you can understand that "litter" is actually a fundamental part of the natural world. Following this realization, it with magically disappear for those who have this experience.

In this way, the "problem" of "litter" can be completely, effectively and thoroughly solved.

Random Dude wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:15 pm

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 2:18 pm There have anti littering campaigns running here for years and years

There's even a "Clean City" competition and awards


Anti littering material is taught in schools and I see less litter than before - still too much of course - but it's going in the right direction

That's good to hear. It was probably before my time but there was a thing in NZ years ago, not sure when - you still hear the phrase 'be a tidy Kiwi' - I think it was in the media etc, and designed to stop people littering.

Things like that don't happen overnight but they do work.

In my country it was the same in the late 1990's - used be plastic bags in trees and hanging off power and phone lines before a massive anti littering drive was initiated and a plastic levy was introduced - this stuff works but takes time and commitment to the cause

There’s little point of an education campaign when there aren’t public trash cans everywhere (that get routinely emptied).

And the public trash cans that are available rarely get emptied.

Ever try to bring trash into a store or restaurant or school to throw it into their trash can?

Litter drives are great but the day to day issue is lack of places to throw trash away.

Unless the Kingdom of Wonder has dramatically changed since the virus hit.

My opinions, of course.

These days when everyone has a camera on them a simple reward system submit a photo of the litterer and get I don't know $25.00 reward.
That litterer is made to do community service for two days / weekend wearing a bright colored t-shirt saying I am filthy litterer and their photos displayed in public areas and on bill boards until they do their community service.
Get enough and the message soon gets around.
Not sure how they would enforce it here but don't show up and the community service doubles.
Back when I was a kid some 50 years or more ago Australia did an Adverising Campagne on TV says someone's watching you various advertisements showing someone throwing trash on a vacant block someone throwing trash out the car window and someone seeing them do it and then they being embarrassed as all heck being exposed for it and fined.
From memory it rounded off with dont live like a pig . It was hard hitting enough for me to remember all these years later and it worked.