Why Is The Arab World So Polluted?

One of the starkest memories I have of visiting Morocco was how dirty everything was, especially by the ocean and the border crossings with Spanish Cueta . As I was leaving the country I recall looking back over the fence and seeing what looked like a mountain of dirty diapers slowly crumbling into the sea. And that was not all, there seemed to be trash everywhere. At the time I thought it was only Morocco, being a third-world country that was dirty, however I have since learned that much of the Arab World is needlessly strewn with garbage. This article about the ancient city of Sidon being