Australia seems to have cracked training people not to litter.
Having visited downtown Sydney for New Year’s Eve 2011, I’m sort of shocked to hear someone claim this. Sydney was definitely subpar compared to my home towns (Seattle, WA and Portland, OR, both in the USA), and I was shocked how few rubbish bins there were. It genuinely bothered me a few times to be in such a gorgeous city and see it marred by litter.
The problem did seem localized to downtown—I didn’t see much of any litter out in the suburbs. I was down there for a couple weeks (Christmas through to ~7th January), so it wasn’t just the New Year’s messes I saw (and that mess was still worse than I’d expect from a similar event in Seattle)
Having visited downtown Sydney for New Year’s Eve 2011, I’m sort of shocked to hear someone claim this. Sydney was definitely subpar compared to my home towns (Seattle, WA and Portland, OR, both in the USA), and I was shocked how few rubbish bins there were. It genuinely bothered me a few times to be in such a gorgeous city and see it marred by litter.
The problem did seem localized to downtown—I didn’t see much of any litter out in the suburbs. I was down there for a couple weeks (Christmas through to ~7th January), so it wasn’t just the New Year’s messes I saw (and that mess was still worse than I’d expect from a similar event in Seattle)