Comments on: Volunteer at the Recycling Center for a dirty good time!

By: Bruce W.Saunders

Bruce W.Saunders — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:49:20 +0000

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.

By: Manuel

Manuel — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:47:41 +0000

Bruce: Bull’s Eye!!!

By: Bruce W.Saunders

Bruce W.Saunders — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:03:58 +0000

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

By: Manuel

Manuel — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:02:48 +0000

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.