Speaking of "noisy and nasty dogs," have you spent any time in Bucharest?

In 2000 they were all over the town. If you saw one down the street your best plan was to choose a different route. If that was unavoidable then it was best to pretend it wasn't there and try to give it at least a 50 metre or so of room. Of course you would NEVER run from them.

My time in India saw little of any kind of sanitation program but dogs were less of a problem as they seemed to be all dying of mange. The hillsides of small Himalayan villages in the north were usually littered with #1 type bottles indicating nothing in the way of collection. I don't think they were ready for the influx of plastic water bottles and the tourists who needed them. The only recycling program I saw was for glass soda bottles. When you wanted a soda you purchase a bottle and then consumed the drink without leaving the seller. When finished you returned the bottle to him and then bottle was washed and sent back to the soda company for refilling. This of course is the best form of recycling as very little energy is used to reuse the resources (except for the transportation of it).