trash goes in the trash
I have seen on many occasions (twice today) people blatently throwing their trash on the ground, when a trash can is within the 15 feet of them.. I was in back of these two kids with their mother. The kid finishes his M &M’s and throws the wrapper on the ground, turns around and looks at me then proceeds to walk away. I don’t get people I mean yeah he is just a kid but his mom watched him do it. I guess she was more concerned with keeping the Pueblo grocery stores shopping bag on her hair to keep the rain off.
Yeah, this island is small, only 30 by 100 miles. I would think people would know the consequences by now. As of 2007 there were right around 4,000,000 people living here and one of two people own cars
When we first moved here we stayed in Humacoa for about a week. The beach was just lined with a fresh coat of used diapers, old toys and shoes.
Last time we went to Old San Juan we went to some nature conservation place and watched a video in english about how we should be taking care of our island. I am just guessing, but don’t you think it would be better to show this video to the people who actually live here. In Spanish?
I gotta say after living in Denver and going hiking around the Boulder area I came to think that by Colorado’s standards, Utah’s forests are not very well taken care of. But compared to Puerto Rico’s standards Utah is as sterile as an operating room.
Dear Puerto Rico,
Trash goes in the trash can, duh.
May 29th, 2008 |
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Thanks for helping pick up. The two things that make me want to throw full cans of soda at a person’s head: text messaging during a movie, and those who litter. Bah.
I saw an article this morning on 13 best beaches in North America…. have you been to Bioluminescent Bay? http://travel.msn.com/Guides/article.aspx?cp-documentid=412431 One last place to check out this weekend, perhaps? Don’t forget to get us pictures! : D
ONE WEEK COUNTDOWN FOR BRIKON’S RETURN! If I knew how to do cool computer stuff, I’d create something for the desktop. I should ask Andy….
Love ya and miss ya, bro.
May 23rd, 2008 |
It is a sad fact but a lot of puerto ricans litter without any concern at all. Some people just doesn’t understand the stupidity of throwing thing out of a car window, on the beach and even around a trash can and not inside of it!
This people where not educated when there where children and it is a habit for them. The Government doesn’t have a good campaign against this. The municipalities doesn’t have enough resources to collect all the trash and abandoned vehicles.
The problem is way down to each individual character. This could be improve with a strong campaign
May 23rd, 2008 |
I read something yesterday that said people won’t generally go further than 25 paces to throw something away. Apparently in Puerto Rico they won’t even do that.
Sigh…