Comments on: Jordan’s Grassroots Efforts to Manage Municipal Trash

By: Aurora Roberts

Aurora Roberts — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 20:09:31 +0000

Having recently visited Jordan for a month, I was both impressed and depressed by the litter problem I saw. It is obvious that in larger towns and cities there is an effort to reduce or at least hide litter. I did note that behind some hotels where most people don’t see that there is still a lot of clean up work to be done. My biggest heartbreak was seeing the plastic bags and paper that litter highways as we drove out to more remote areas and then appalled by the gross amounts of trash that we encountered as we trekked into a wadi out past the Dead Sea. I think you all are heading in the right direction and compared to some other countries that I have visited have made progress. Keep up the good work and push for a cleaner environment in more remote areas as well.

By: Laurie Balbo

Laurie Balbo — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:03:55 +0000

muddanddough – did you have a link to share for the experiment? sounds intriguing.

By: mudanddough

mudanddough — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:46:53 +0000

please check above blog for a year long experiment not only with reducing “litter” but more fundamentally eliminating domestic trash…Trash is more than meets the eye…our problem is much bigger than what we see on the streets,,,it is the landfills that are a time bomb!

By: JTR

JTR — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:07:10 +0000

If Jordan is broke they need to gently reduce their population with family planning programs, then plant trees and gardens. Every family should have a vegetable garden and at least one friut tree; and every town and city should be surrounded by carefully tended forest..