No, it is disregard. The closest nature trail near me where people go for walks and bring their dogs or whatever, people litter there all the time and leave their discarded box of Timbits or coffee cups etc. Some people are dirty selfish a-holes who don't care about anyone or anything else but themselves. Mexico has a lot of those, and also not the money to clean up after them.
Thank you for your reply. Where do you live? Where I live on Vancouver Island I can say that I've never before seen such an effort to clean up the environment. Just a couple of weeks ago some group organized a day for cleaning up our beaches of plastic. And as well, walking through the woods to a very popular waterfall park near my house, it's likely that one will see very little plastic wast carelessly thrown away.
I appreciate your opinion that with Mexicans it's disregard, but that's a somewhat loose term that requires a better explanation. I think that if all the plastic containers weren't there, their highways wouldn't look all that bad. The remedy then is refundable containers.
I dare say that if a refund was offered for water bottles in Mexico, someone could earn a wage of at least 40 bucks an hour at 5 cents a bottle. That's not possible.
You've acknowledged that Mexico doesn't have the money to clean it up, but you've also offered 'disregard' as an explanation. I can't accept that you can have both for an explanation.
If B.C. dropped the refund on aluminum cans we could light our way down the highway with them.
In B.C. we have a government that cares about the appearance of our main highways. We pay to have people on ATV's regularly cleaning up. Maybe some of the other provinces are different?
In B.C. it's a socially responsible priority.