One thing I noticed on my first day in Rwanda is that it is an incredibly clean country, roadways are bush, grass and then road - no great piles of rubbish, endless bits of plastic blown around by the wind at caught together by barriers. In town you wander around wondering who collects all the rubbish, no rotting garbage piles, no filthy piles of trash on empty blocks.
In futuristic Rwanda plastic bags are banned - that is right, in the whole country there are no plastic bags. Instead everything comes in paper bags - from sliced bread to vegetables from the market. A friend told us that if you bring in bread from Uganda, they make you take the bread out of its plastic bag and put it in a paper bag. The difference is very discernible, no clogged waterways, no eyesores along road sides and no dirty, smouldering piles of refuse.
Goes to show you how pathetic the political leadership in Australia is - a tiny, poverty stricken African country has band plastic bags, and it works and life doesn't suddenly come to a halt.
A travel blog for the thinking clown who has drunk a little too much of the local tap water
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