Garbage Terrorism
Been walking around here in Sydney, looking up in the sky, studying buildings, people and everything else that gives me a reason to lay my eyes on things in a safe perimeter away from the ground.
As you probably noticed after 9/11 most countries removed the trashcans from the metro, train and airports due to "terrorism" threats. They also chose to take away many of the trashcans in the city. This has not only become a constant reminder of 9/11 and that a terrorist "might strike at any moment" (which most of us don't find it likely, but we do know that it can happen, and that is most likely to be in the bigger cities). Anyways, not being able to see a place to dispose whatever we might need to get out of our hands has left us with much more then just a reminder of what might happen(...), it has resulted in a much much dirtier environment.
Non of us what's to step over old McDonald bags, nor crisscross between newly spit gum, or anything else that belongs in one of those green, metallic containers, but still the city doesn't seem to find it big enough of a problem to add some more on to our sidewalks.
Are they really that afraid of what might happen, or are they just not capable of seeing how it looks all around us, or are they so used to it that they have stopped caring?
People feel better in cleaner cities, and the likability that someone would through something on the ground get smaller when a trashcan is close and the streets are clean. Or am I mistaken, are we just a dirty bunch in general?
