thoughts on garbage

City garbage tractor cleaning the streets in Galle

Sri Lanka is a truly beautiful and unique country. The people are kind, gentle and laid-back. But like every country in the world they have to deal with garbage.
And I keep wondering what do you do with the rubbish of 20 million people living on an island which is roughly twice the size of the island we live on in Canada? We have a population of only 759,000 on half the space. Everything we buy in Sir Lanka is wrapped in plastic or styrofoam and comes in a plastic bag, and all of that packaging has to go somewhere.