Refuse Refuse
Reject Rubbish is the slogan Temehu.com has chosen to represent its online campaign to Keep Libya Clean.
Traditionally, Libyan women keep their houses spotlessly clean and tidy before visitors arrive. Ask your mum and she will gently tell you that Libya is your sacred home!
Libya until recently was as isolated from the outside world as Acacus still is today. But the side effects of any influx of wealth and progressive economical growth would naturally include litter, neglect and fatigue. Those eager to digest and disregard neat order for clutter and litter, be ware: litter, rubbish, refuse and garbage are piling up even in the most sacred archaeological sites of Libya.
http://www.temehu.com/rubbish-in-libya.htm
http://www.temehu.com/rubbish-in-libya.htm
This is a real photo of a group of European tourists in the Libyan Sahara, leaving their rubbish behind after camping overnight. We have covered the plate numbers and other identifiers bright green to keep the identity of the "perpetrators" private and safe with us. Only us and them know this secret.
This Western European group of tourists were habitually leaving their rubbish behind, wherever they camp. When one of our Libyan tour guides kindly pointed out to them that they needed to carry their bags with them to the nearest rubbish dump, they took no notice of him. When the guide noticed they do this on a regular basis, he waited one day until they all got in their cars and drove away, and took his camera to produce the above live shot; capturing the perpetrators in action running away from the crime-scene, leaving the evidence behind: (two green bags, one blue bag, one white bag, one black bag, yellow plastic, and a solitary can).
We are not running a name and shame campaign.
We hope those tourists find this page as it might be of comfort to them
to know that their guide had secretly took all that rubbish and disposed of it at the nearest allocated spot.
We hope those tourists find this page as it might be of comfort to them
to know that their guide had secretly took all that rubbish and disposed of it at the nearest allocated spot.
