Plastic Bags, Mekong River

Our fellow travellers contributed to the Mekong's pollution problem by disposing of several packets of cigarettes-worth of butts, as they chained-smoked their way downstream. Up front, the group of locals hurled their ubiquitous plastic bags-full of rubbish overboard without so-much as a guilty glance about to see if anyone noticed. Riparean vegetaion along the banks acts as a natural plastic bag filter, and some areas have a strange resemblance to some sort of modern art installation: "Plastic Bags on the Mekong, 2007. Local twigs, muddy water, plastic bags, domestic refuse. Dimensions variable."