Category: Opinion

I have just return from a walking holiday in Japan where I was surprised to find that there were no public rubbish bins readily accessible. I was told that after the 1995 sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway that public rubbish bins were removed to prevent further terrorist attacks and that Japanese people all carry a small plastic bag to put their rubbish in and dispose of it at home. It is an obvious cultural difference that I thought about when I was walking around Lake Daylesford on...