Blog session 8: How green are you?

I think that the main place where you can learn about the recycling is the school, and probably in the home and the town council too. But our society doesn't worry too much about this issue, and maybe we need more educational programs to teach to the new generations how to be good with the planet.

I live in Ñuñoa, and the town council has a few options to recycle. In my building, the administration asked the neighbors to separate some elements (papers, cartons, aluminum, glass, tetra packs, etc.), and you can leave them in special places so municipal tracks can pick them up. Also, a very good initiative is that  there is a huge box where the community keep all the papers and the cartons and then, when the box is full, some people comes to get it and they change it for money and after all this process they gave the money to San José foundation.

From the beginning me and my family separate the papers, but three months ago we start to try to separate the other things too.

We didn't know too much about our carbon footprint, but my father always teach my sister and me that we have to disconnect the electronic appliances that we aren't use it, prefer the public transport and bicycle instead of cars.

Because of that I go to the university in my bike, and when I can’t do it I do the same route walking. I do this because I study near from my home so I prefer to do that instead of taking a bus, but this is a special case, because the majority of people live very far from their work places so they can’t do it walking or riding bicycle. Also, the cycle lanes aren't very good in Santiago, so moving around the city in a bike it’s very difficult.

I never joined or supported any eco-organizations because I don’t make myself the time to try it. But I think that someday I would do it, especially in an organization that helps animals.