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Volunteer at the Recycling Center for a dirty good time!
Posted by Editor | September 28, 2009 | Categories: Community Calendar | 4 Comments
| September 29, 2009 |
A group of community members gets together every Tuesday at the recycling center to help them get on the mountain of recyclables!
This is an opportunity to be a active member of your community.
So bring music, get to know some neighbors, feel rewarded, make a difference…and to top it off some local masseuses are offering an incentive.
The work is dirty and gross but rewarding. After this we have no question on what is recyclable here on the Caribbean coast:
- Plastics #1 and #2–beverage bottles mostly
- Glass: separated to clear and color
- Aluminum
Material should be sent in clean, smash the plastic and aluminum, take the top off of the glass.
Things not recyclable at this time by ReciCaribe: tin cans, tetrabrik (those cardboard boxes for milk and wine), cardboard, light bulbs, dirty diapers, organic food stuffs, sand, batteries.
Thanks to:
Rolo and Denis of ReciCaribe
Frank of Cabinas Los Almendros
Pamela of Loco Natural Jungle Houses
Ashley of the Finca La Isla Botanical Garden
Bill of Pachamama (the first to volunteer)
Michael Cook–a good neighbor
Glenda of Soda Miss Sam’s
Alaine of ATEC
and thanks to Tom at Bread and Chocolate for donating treats to keep us going.
And thanks to ReciCaribe for doing what you do and the Biological Corridor too.
We’re getting the next group together. It’s hard work and my muscles hurt for days after, but an important experience for people who care about their community. So far going on Tuesday the 29th of September they have:
Robert of Banana Azul Lodge
Christina of Medicinal Bush Body oils
Walter the masseuse from Black Beach
Pamela of Loco Natural Jungle Houses
Alaine and Sheran from ATEC
Three different groups of masseuses have offered to give either a half price hour long massage or a free 20 minute massage if you come help volunteer!
Thanks: Walter in Manzanillo, Tup and Ro in Playa Negra and Dan and Julie and crew at Bliss Spa!
Please write or call and come get involved.
Contact Alaine at ATEC 2750 0191 or home 2750 0052 or cell 8320 4821.
Or the folks at the Corridor 2756 8033 or 2750 8136.
You don’t have to come on the 29th, you could go volunteer any weekday from 7:30 to 3.
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We just got back from volunteering at the ReciCaribe center for the morning and was surprised there were not that many people that showed up (8 total). Now having been there with our employees and partners, we will go back and continue to help. The place needs some SERIOUS assistance from anyone who can manage to donate a few hours and have a good time! There are mountains of unsorted recyclables that need to be sorted and “packaged” so that we can “sell” or process them and make the program pay for itself.
It is also highly educational just to get a realistic concept of what is involved in recycling – a lot more then one can imagine. This is an absolute community effort and the program NEEDS the community’s help to get it caught up to speed and properly functional.
Thanks to Alaine from ATEC for getting it out in the news….it is really a gratifying and important thing to help with.
This is a very good start although more options for available volunteering should be implemented…. possibly try and introduce some seperation at the source.
If addressing the small effort in the home of rinsing out tin cans, milk and juice containers; seperating paper and plastic, everyone begins to take some resposibility of managing their own waste. Everyone becomes a volunteer and contributes their part to help keeping our planet clean.
When you are having your local meetings, publishing the message in the local papers, roadside signs are all the positive steps to get the message out.
Reaching for the stars ?……Locations and bins as to wear you can dispose of your seperated waste …. picked up by some local volunteer’s driving by ?……. on site trailers ?
Seperated bins on waste disposal trucks or trailers ? Government implemented programs ?
Proper waste disposal and recycling is only one of the ways we will survive the future ; the past has made a mess, the present is to make some progress, the future is to manage and to make less.
Let’s keep our footprint to a minimum and walk through this journey of life maintaining our place in space.
Let’s keep our Carribean life and World clean for all of us to enjoy ……forever and ever.
amen
Bruce: Bull’s Eye!!!
Manuel, We have to get this message out….recycling begins at home, at your business, etc.
Having different colour bins …..red, yellow, green, would help seperate some waste ….Bob would like that.
Let’s try and make the Talamanca region an example in Costa Rica to help manage waste ….. we have a chance to not make the same mistakes as the rest.
If everybody in the community really cares about where they live and how to develop the future; let’s start by cleaning up our act before we start to make any more moves …..it’s an uphill battle I know …. if there is a will there is a way.
Managing our waste and preservimg the water is a priority and should be to to all residents.
Education, general practise and perserverance will win if given a chance.
I am only part time in Costa Rica but I know when I am there I will try to make a difference. You have my email so you can also contact me there.
Hope that this ball only gets bigger and some momentum can make it roll.