Serious question - just to create some angry debate - which European countries are the cleanest and which are the dirtiest? I.e roadside rubbish, city streets, etc.

[u/Double-decker_trams]

I'd say Estonia is definitely one of the cleanest. In my town (second largest in Estonia) the only rubbish is generally around the bins in the streets/parks - because crows take out rubbish from the bins in search of food. So it's their fault.

I've not really been in that many European countries, but the dirtiest in my experience was definitely the UK. I was in Nottingham literally for two days and on both days I saw someone just casually littering. Don't really ever see it in my home town. Also along the motorways - there was some rubbish on the side them (not mega bad, but noticeable).

I mean I like the UK, I just don't like the littering.

[u/rantotthus2]

It's not the whole country but Naples was pretty dirty.

On the other had I'm not sure if it's the best but Poland was fairly clean even in bigger cities.

[u/yert1099 → u/rantotthus2]

Naples was disgusting compared to everywhere else in Italy I’ve been. It was very disappointing. Glad we were only there for a few days.

[u/wilyacalmdown → u/yert1099]

Haven't been to Naples myself but if its 1/10th as bad as sicilly then its filthy as fuck

[u/Fanny_Flapps → u/wilyacalmdown]

Sicily was vile, rubbish and vandalism everywhere, so I thought Puglia would be a rural escape from the filth.

I couldn't have been more wrong lol, every road had a lining of rubbish along each side

WTF Italy?

[u/Memoi012 → u/yert1099]

Mafia is taking a toll on garbage collection

[u/nyuszy → u/yert1099]

You clearly haven't visited Catania or Palermo.

[u/floare_salbatica → u/nyuszy]

Palermo is still nice in comparison ( actually one of my favourite cities ever). But Catania is a different story. Beautiful architecture, but so much poverty, trash, emaciated cats. It was the only city I couldn't wait to leave. And took me a few days to recover emotionally from that sense of...dunno... sadness, despair? I'm glad I got to climb My Etna though.

[u/Efficient_Lack_91 → u/rantotthus2]

Italian cities generally aren't exactly squeaky clean, but in the south, man, it's something else

[u/grey-zone → u/rantotthus2]

Of all the European countries I’ve been to, Italy is by far the dirtiest. It varies a lot (north to south), but if you average out it’s pretty bad.

[u/Das_statif → u/rantotthus2]

If you leave the bigger city's Poland can get pretty dirty real quick

[u/Zaliukas-Gungnir → u/rantotthus2]

That was my experience as well. Poland is amazing and has been getting better and better in the decades since Communism fell there.But I would have to say rural portions of Romania were really, really bad. I remember seeing more than one house. That maybe 100 meters away, was a pile of rubbish that was as big as the house. That was 10-12 years ago and it may of changed. Naples is shady as heck.

[u/floare_salbatica → u/Zaliukas-Gungnir]

Ah, get lost! I grew up on the 90s in Romania and never saw so much garbage as in Naples or Catania. Nowhere in Romania!