An interesting delimea

Grade 12 did a combined ICT and English research project last trimester based around animal issues. Our newspaper, The National, had run an article discussing how wandering camels are at risk from rubbish. They feed from rubbish skips and rubbish lying on the ground, often digesting plastic bags, which in turn, kills them. We have big rubbish skips dotted all around, which are emptied every day. You take your supermarket bag of rubbish to the skip.
Some of the girls took up this issue and stated that the plastic bags left behind by the tourists kill the camels. Its amazing how the "blame" allocated. The Emirati population on the whole doesn't care about rubbish. You would not believe the rubbish that is thrown or dumped out of cars. Picnic spots are littered with the stuff. They do this because their government pays a little Pakistani or Indian worker in his green boiler suit armed with a black bin liner and rake, to scoop up the rubbish left behind by a careless society. Last week I was sitting in my car outside a little cafeteria early in the morning while those I car pool with were inside ordering piartias for breakfast. In the car beside me were 4 young Emirati youths. They just opened their door and dropped their food wrappings on the ground. I wound down my window and suggested they shouldn't do that, its polluting their country, they need to care a little bit more.... in a very nice motherly fashion. The passengers good hearted response "was room service, pointing to the Indian migrant population on the pavement, will come and clean’. They didn't care a dot!
Today at school 3 hobbled camels wandered along across the road and stopped to eat from the rubbish skip, around the skip and from a black plastic bag. The rubbish skip is outside the school, so its filled with school rubbish, not paper etc that you would expect from a NZ school. Instead the rubbish is mostly sealed plastic from around the bread rolls, juice packets, left over bread rolls and other minor food related products. These camels were hobbled so they belonged to someone, however they are left to wander aimlessly around. While I watched and took photos all three took turns to eat the rubbish in and around the skip, including the one who had his nose in a black bin liner. I also would like to point out that the rubbish in that skip would be mostly Emirati generated, and I could guaranteed no tourist left one jot of rubbish in that bin. Apathy is killing the camels! And from a small percentage of the population rubbish apathy is a huge problem.