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Recycling Guide

  • First: All kinds of papers.
  • Second: Cans and bottles that have been rinsed.
  • Third: Biodegradables, such as fruit peels and vegetables that can be used as organic composite.
  • Fourth: Non-recyclables.

Reducing Garbage - YES! It is Possible - Costa Rica Recycling

Author:

Rodrigo Zavaleta Mora

Costa Rica Reciclaje.

Every day, at 5:30am, I go out for my morning walk. All along Rohrmoser Boulevard I am accompanied by the cold, the wind, and a large garbage bag typically used for gardening.

Every day during my walk, which averages to about 45 minutes, I gather plastic bottles, cans, aluminum cans, and cardboard boxes with my oversized garbage bag.

From Banco Uno, ascending toward Rohrmoser Boulevard, passing by the Teletica Channel 7 and down toward the wide streets of Pavas, every day I collect a bag full of the recyclable products mentioned above. I calculate that that bag usually weighs about 2 Kg(4.4 Lbs.), maybe more.

Today, January 4, 2008, on my walk, I associated the weight of the day's collected materials with some news from the December 31 edition of La Nación, which mentions that Costa Rica produces 11,000 tons of garbage daily, and an idea occurred to me:

If each one of the 4,000,0000 human beings that inhabit our beautiful Costa Rica could recover at least 1Kg(2.2 Lbs.) of recyclable material daily, that would amount to an incredible 4,000,000 Kg(8.8million Lbs.) of daily recyclable product, which is equivalent to 4,000 daily tons.

That's to say if each Costa Rican, instead of indiscriminately throwing away materials in the garbage, could separate and recycle them, we would reduce the totally daily garbage of the country by 50%!

That does not even take into account the amount of jobs that 4,000 tons of recyclable garbage could generate, jobs related directly or indirectly with the process of recycling.

Upon seeing those numbers, my motivation rises. The problem has a solution, numerically speaking. The complicated part is everyone actually wanting to do it.

That is our mission, our objective, our end. Costa Rica Recycling is POSSIBLE.

Recycling- A Project for EVERYONE.