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I assume I shouldn't label this as OC.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 days ago (14 children)

Been to Morocco a couple of times. Zoom in on the photo

The amount of dumped rubbish is quite frankly fucking shameful. There's a sea of plastic bags and coke bottles everywhere to the point they're blowing all over the Sahara too

It could be such an amazing tourist spot, being so close to Europe, but the locals treat it like a giant rubbish dump. It's such a shame

[–] BackwardMonkey 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, absolutely. Tunisia too. Time for some new religous rules that's relevant today. It should be haram to disrespect nature.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It already is? It's not a religious problem, it's a third world country problem. People just have more important things to worry about than plastic littering but I agree it needs to be changed.

There should be prohibitions against plastic bags in general but there's no caliphate now, so it's not a monolith that sets the rules.

Edit: i would also like to mention that a lot of third world countries do not have the system to recycle or process plastic waste. Even if you hand them over to municipality, it gets thrown into open waste dumps and get burnt.

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