Yes. Do a Google search on "EVEREST CLEAN UP" and you get over a million hits. Base camp is a huge mess and there are "service" expeditions that just go there to clear away the trash. Apparently the latrine area's a disaster.
I hope that part of the $35 ,000 fee contributes to the cleanup.
It seems that in so many areas of adventure "mobs" have been able in our "depressed" economy to make these remote areas just vacations to be experienced and crossed off of personal lists.
Example: Two glaceologists, ie men getting their climbing adventure paid for by being academics, bought the sailboat that had been my family's home. They were not sailors but needed transportation to get to remote glaciers. A few years later they were in Antarctica on the boat they had bought from us. I met a friend from the marina where we had lived aboard this boat, and said to him "did you know that Gambo [the boat we sold] was in Antarctica?" He answered, "Yes, did you know that Roberta [his daughter] was in Antarctica?" She is a professional sailor and avid skier, who was there on an all female glacial 'expedition.'