If Rural Chileans Recycle, Why Can’t We?
This picture was taken 50 miles up a desert canyon in the middle of nowhere in the Chilean Andes, underscoring that when there’s a will, there’s a way.
I’m writing this in a city in United States where it’s difficult to recycle paper. In the town where I went to high school, you still can’t even recycle glass.
Photo Credit: Clayton B. Cornell. One of the first signs of human habitation after an 11-day mountain trek, just outside the ‘town’ of Conay, Chile.
Yes! I saw “Organico” and “Inorganico” waste bins all over Peru on my trip there this year, and was shocked by the contrast to the US.
It’s not just Chile - the whole world is recycling.
Except the USA, evidently.