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Article: Green replaces filth in Bur Dubai locality.
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- Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
- Article date:
- October 4, 2008
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Dubai: Mounting piles of rubbish thrown into the street by first-floor residents of some buildings in Bur Dubai has pushed a ground floor tenant to take matters into his own hands.
Every day, neatly tied up bags of rubbish come sailing down from tenants above to the street below as some people have taken to dumping their waste out of the window.
The result is a filth-strewn alley just a few hundred metres from the newly-revamped Bastakia area, popular with tourists and art aficionados.
Tanvir Shah, 26, an Indian marketing consultant who has lived in the area for six years, galled at the sight of waste continuously piling up outside his home, ...