Is the cleanliness of a place 100% cultural?
2 min readOct 5, 2023
Two months ago I was walking along the pristine streets of Kyoto, Japan. There is no litter, everything is tidy. Now I find myself walking along streets littered with trash everywhere in a big city in the United States. Both cities are in developed countries. What makes one cleaner than the other?
We get our answer by looking at five examples of clean countries:
- Japan
