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jfurgers
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Guy Courchesne
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The city has required residents to sort trash since 2003, but without providing the infrastructure to handle it. Ninety percent of garbage trucks lack separate compartments for organic and inorganic waste. Thirteen transfer stations are supposed to process waste separately. But on a recent afternoon at a mid-sized center, three men were shoveling tree branches into a pit with plastic foam cups.
That’s where the enterprising informal economy takes over. Mexico City’s garbage workers union officially employs 17,000 and at least 8,000 more unofficially. Paid drivers and so-called volunteers make extra cash collecting “tips” from customers and selling aluminum and cardboard from their routes. Some union members rake in as much as three times their wage. |
The city was apparently to begin handing out fines to people who didn't separate their garbage into organic and inorganic waste. Haven't seen any changes to infrastructure to handle it like the article notes and the guys on the garbage trucks just shrug when I ask. |
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Dragonlady
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notamiss
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notamiss
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http://www.planetaazul.com.mx/www/2009/01/24/separan-la-basura-%C2%A1para-revolverla/ 
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La separaci�n de la basura en el Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de M�xico (AICM), donde se generan 40 toneladas de desperdicios diariamente, es pura simulaci�n.
Los desechos de los botes con divisiones para desperdicios org�nicos e inorg�nicos ubicados a lo largo de los ambulatorios, salas de espera y entradas son revueltos en un contenedor localizado afuera de la puerta 10.
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Las autoridades del aeropuerto no quisieron pronunciarse sobre este tema.
Igual en plazas comerciales.
La separaci�n de basura en las plazas comerciales de la Ciudad deja mucho que desear.
A pesar de haber contenedores diferenciados para residuos org�nicos e inorg�nicos, la mayor�a de la gente no los usa de forma adecuada y, aunque lo hiciera, los desechos volver�an a ser mezclados por los empleados de limpieza, como se pudo comprobar en las plazas.
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Dragonlady
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dixie
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I encouraged the SS to write letters to Coca Cola given that a large percentage of the bottles belonged to them. No luck.
Why? Is it because Coca Cola already has the market share for soda and water distribution in Mexico and therefore they don't feel any obligation to place collection depots in minor cities and towns?
Is it maybe not the culture, but rather the mega corporations that are the problem? |
I don't think Coca Cola is to blame but the culture (and the culture likes to drink Coca Cola!). I have seen people throw their garbage on the ground, directly next to a garbage can. |
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raulyn
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Location: D.F.
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I remember when I first started going down to D.F. on vacations in the late 80's. Until 2004 or so, I couldn't find a trash can on the street corner to save my life. I was always carrying garbage in my backback/messenger bag. My friends thought I was nuts. But I couldn't just throw garbage on the ground. Within the last three or four years, that hasn't been a problem and the streets are much cleaner now than in the past.
Last Xmas, when I was in Chiapas, I was in a boat in the Ca�on del Sumidero and there were empty bottles and garbage in the water. Mexicans were complaining about the pollution and some where scooping the garbage into the boat.
I think that people are willing to 'do their part' if the resources and infrastructure is there. |
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