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[Lousam]

The UK has a huge problem with fly tipping. They should take a leaf out of Slovenia's book.

Twice a year (Spring and Autum) we have BIG RUBBISH DAY.
You can put outside your house anything that you want taking away (for free) to be dumped or recycled.
Fridges, old sofas, car tyres etc, basically anything that you don't put in a normal rubbish bin.

Whats quite funny is that a lot of it gets taken by the gypsys. They collect various bits, mainly metal and sell it, which is fair enough.
What made us laugh the other day is that a few days before the BIG RUBBISH DAY our local gypsy called at the house and gave us his mobile number and said to call him once we had sorted out any rubbish to give him first refusal. (Our local gyspys are very polite and since we have been renovaing property, a great help in rubbish recycling!).

[markowe]

Yes, similar in Serbia, the Roma are real "recyclers", though I don't necessarily think they are doing it out of any environmental awareness

I wish we had such a green outlook. I have formed a Facebook group to get people motivated about campaigning against damage being done to the Fruska Gora national park: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=101534563225036&topic=6&post=73#!/group.php?gid=101534563225036&ref=ts

We have a very long way to go...
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