Not everyone in Europe is greeting the thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Africa with open arms. Some locals in countries like Serbia and Hungary have expressed their discontent with the chaos and piles of trash the asylum seekers leave behind.
Plastic bottles, cardboard boxes, empty plastic packets, and untouched humanitarian aid can be seen in photos and videos shared on social media depicting the transit refugee camps and heavily littered migrant route.
Images from the Roszke refugee camp at the Hungarian-Serbian border – a part of the Western Balkan migration route – show a trash lined roadside littered with empty tents left behind when the asylum seekers left the area.
The rubbish trail on the border between Hungary and Serbia appears to help some navigate in unknown territory.
“I follow the trash,” 23-yearl old Syrian Abood told the Christian Monitor.“It makes it very easy to find the right way to go,” he said adding that he feels “a bit ashamed that Syrians have left so much garbage along the way.”
Europe’s refugee crisis: Trash trail left behind by asylum seekers upsets locals
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