Trash heaps don't just gather in and around poverty stricken communities b/c the wealthy export their trash there. The poor waste more - not in terms of food and bare essentials - but in every other way. Per capita certainly the 1% produce vastly more trash. But go to India, for example, and the poor live in their own trash. The wasteful behavior is due more to ignorance than attitude (which is the problem with the wealthy that could not care less). But it does not negate the reality that the poor produce tons of trash yet have all the reason to be frugal, not waste, and recycle.