Anecdotal Differences

I threw away a ziploc bag today. It was in good condition, only a little dirty with some crumbs inside. In Cambodia, someone would probably fish the bag out of my trash and use it at home, but here i imagine it will be buried in a garbage heap or get incinerated.

Poorer countries seem so much more resourceful in their recycling efforts - no need to spend vast resources recycling plastics into new plastics, just reuse the old containers, like litre bottles measure and hold gasoline for sale, or float in the river to indicate where the fisherman's net is, or get used as sleds or line walkways (unfortunate flip side: no need to compost your throwaways, the poorest folks will take it from the trash and eat it, and no worries about disease or health - they're poor people after all).