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Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

I usually am joking, but in this case, the jokers are in Congress

richtx1 · Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 115 Location: Ciudad de M�xico

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

It's not exactly pleasant to think of it this way, but the most efficient method of recycling has been operating in Mexico for some time. If you were visit the dumps, you would find many families living nearby that make a living raking through to salvage anything of value, and I mean anything.

I've heard of how civic recyclinjg systems work for Toronto and Ottawa. While we might feel good about putting everything in its appropriate colour-coordinated box, the truth of the matter is that the facilities and technology don't exist yet to handle the load. Apparently, materials for recycling are piling up, creating another dump.

Toronto already sends much of its garbage to Detroit or thereabouts.

Richard, I agree that the air quality has improved in the last 4 years, noticeably. I can't remember the last 'hoy no circula' day.

Take a look at the sky today...a beautiful blue, nice warm breeze. See how the winds are going south-north instead of the reverse? I love it when it's like this. Normally, winds are north-south, approximately. With most industry up in the north of the city, you get lots of pollution in the center and south. If you look at an air quaility map (in the Herald every day), I chuckle to notice that the poorest air quality is always in the southwest zone, which is mostly rich residential area, and the best air quality is in the northeast, which is mostly poor residential area.

thelmadatter · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject: Hoy no circula

OK Im showing myignorance here but I thought "hoy no circula" was that you couldnt drive your care in DF one day M-F. It also includes days when NO ONE can drive?

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

No one? No, I don't think so. There is doble hoy no circula, when the smog is really bad. I think it's been a few years since they had one of those. On those days, double the amont of cars are taken off the road.

I think I was unclear in my post before. Every day, M-F, a car with plates that start (or finish?) with 2 digits of the 0-9 series aren't allowed to drive. Doble hoy no circula means 4 digits of the series can't drive.