some nice people have started a campaign to clean up Portugal! They are collecting lots & lots of photos of rubbish in places it shouldn't be. And this time next year they will be presented to the President, the PM, the tourist board, the camaras, the newspapers, TV and the People.

http://lixo-lixo.blogspot.com/

to participate, send your photos of rubbish in places it shouldn't be to lixolixobot@gmail.com - comments welcome - but be nice! and don’t forget to say where the photo was taken.

Thank you

What a great idea, have always thought that something should be done about the amount of unsightly rubbish just dumped anywhere and everywhere. Lets hope it makes a difference, it is such a shame to have a nice countryside ruined by huge amounts of junk and rubbish.

is it just me or does anyone else find those photos rather beautiful...? There is something very melancholic about them, evidence of human intervention in nature without the person being present in photo.


oh just me then!

no

I can sort of understand where you are coming from - from an artistic point of way - a bit like Tracy Emins unmade bed

B2D wrote:is it just me or does anyone else find those photos rather beautiful...? There is something very melancholic about them, evidence of human intervention in nature without the person being present in photo.


oh just me then!

No, it's not just you, I think they have a sense of being about them. In years to come it'll be the rubbish we leave behind that archaeologists will unearth and use to work out who we were and what we did.

I shall be in Portugal over christmas and will be adding my own contribution.

Sorry B2D..have to agree with Lesley on this one
Afraid all I see is we humans making too much rubbish,not only spoiling the countryside and towns/cities by leaving it lying around but the big question is..
what we're doing to our ecology? we're digging more and more rubbish pits and some of this stuff will never rot down but seeps down into the earth finds its way into our rivers & waterways causing evermore pollution!
If we could do away with some of the immense amount of packaging that everything has these days - that would help some..
and in this case in Portugal( & here in UK too)..introduce heavier fines for leaving litter?!

Michael Crane wrote: work out who we were and what we did.

I am truly sorry Michael, but you have left yourself wide open above...

In your case not much

Nightrider

we were in Sintra the other day and it was rubbish and dog shit ALL over the place, horrible

B1D wrote:dog shit ALL over the place, horrible

nightrider wrote: In your case not much Nightrider

You are quite wrong. I have had a huge impact on backgammon in this country and its popularity will long outlast me.

Michael Crane wrote:

nightrider wrote: In your case not much Nightrider

You are quite wrong. I have had a huge impact on backgammon in this country and its popularity will long outlast me.

Yes Michael but will your head Nightrider

B1D, I’m inspired
On this forum we are gonna have our own dog shit photo competition
A prize for the one who captures that Eminesque beauty. But I has to be genuine Portuguese, so do please try to get one on the calçada, on top of a crumpled super bock tin or something.

spread the word

digger wrote:spread the word

or even the turd

I hear your having your photo taken Michael.... will you be signing it in ink Nightrider