Much of asia seems to give zero fucks about littering.

I am currently in Indonesia and the plastic pollution here is atrocious. With the exception of the very rural villages, many of the roadside ditches are full of shredded plastic bags, food packaging, torn sacks, etc. Snorkeling in Amed (Bali) is like swimming through a sea of plastic. Super gross. When you talk to the locals about it, they all say it's the tourists fault, but they all have big spreading piles of waste next to their houses, inevitably spreading into streams and drains.

Really makes a mockery of everyone else's efforts.