Tourism and plastic bags don’t coexist [Archives:2004/793/Letters to the Editor]

Hanne Schonig
schoenig@owz.uni-halle.de
Yemen also has what tourists don't want: Nothing is uglier than towns, places and trees covered with plastic bags. In issue 785 we learned that plastic bags are dangerous, but only in respect to what is carried in them. Nobody seems to care about dangers by throwing them away. Thus the aesthetic aspect is not the most important, but as for tourists, they are shocked to see how the loveliest landscape and architectural highlights are disguised. I worked as a tour guide in Yemen for 15 years and it is the country I like the most but each time I am upset about the waste and the missing responsibility of parents to teach their children about nature and creation and the missing respect towards the well-known sentence: al-nazzafa min al-iman!
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