Simple: we don't have any retarded caste system that compels us to not do shit because that's something that only people below us do and thus even low educated people are able to recognize that the state situation is partly their fault, even in the most shitty neighborhoods there are people that are able to get their shit togheter and clean up or provide some service to the community
There's no comparison.
was joking, but fr fr New York doesn't have alleyways, so the night before garbage collection day there are YUGE piles of trash in front of every building. It's a feast for rats and garbage pickers and a design flaw on Robert Moses' part.
Hindi is pretty surreal to listen to since it's usually that ye hai rhythm and suddenly you get an English loanword.
Yeah Shinjuku, Tokyo is like that as well. It's a complete shit hole first thing every morning because of all the drunks, "Tokyo kids", and the homeless.
Garbage collection is expensive, in a word. Most US municipalities spend a good bit of money to landfill garbage or incinerate it. Recyclables aren't even that easy to move any longer, China produces too much recyclable material internally to want to import it much any more. (Also, the only recyclables really worth the trouble are aluminum, steel, and to a lesser degree paper and glass.) Plastic recycling has always been a crock of shit, the only plastic that can be recycled economically is PET-1 (drinks bottles and milk jugs) and even then, it's mostly made into polyurethane fiber for making reusable grocery totes.
Even after the Raj's fall, the Brits remain their great unifier.
