Through out any adventure, such as this one, you have a lot of time on your hands to think. To think about everything. Who you are. What you want to be. What the future may hold. I think a lot of this adventure has made me realize who I am and what I want.
Part of who I am, I've realized, is a very environmentally friendly person. The green movement is so fantastic to me and I am so happy to see others finally catching on. The otherday Amber read me an online article about how Seattle has just passed a law for $0.20 be added to every plastic bag that is used from a store. It also passed a law banning resturants from using styrofoam containers. With the city of Seattle using over 320 MILLION plastic bags a year, this seems like such a proactive step towards global consciousness. In Buenos Aires, we met an Irish woman named Shivonne who said that all of Ireland charges for the use of plastic bags.
When we were in Cuzco a few weeks ago, we were having a snack and I realized that my recycled, glass bottle of Sprite was made in 1995. How many plastic bottles have not been added to the world's landfills by reusing that bottle hundreds of times over? (Not only Perù, but most of Europe and many other countries reuse their glass bottles as they can be disinfected and reused an infinite amount of times...after all glass is a product that never deteriorates like only being able to recycle paper 7 times.)
While arriving here in Ecuador, I was saddened to watch the woman in front of me throw sytrofoam and plastic bottles out the window of the bus as we drove through the gorgeous landscape of Ecuador.
Its hard for me to realize that there are so many people in the world who take it all for granted. One day our world will deplenish and we will be left to deal with the consequences of our indulgent past.
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Haha, hippie. You sure Seattle didn't pass the law to collect $64 million per year?
Now, what we need to do is pass a $300 tax on frog related merchandise.
We got your post cards today, thank you. :)
Hope you're enjoying South America.
One nice thing about being here in Hawaii is that they have an extensive recycling program. In our closet, we are recycling newspaper, plastic, glass, and cans. When we go to the recycling center we're going to see what else we can recycle. :) I know that plastic and cans and newspaper isn't all that revolutionary, but when I worked at Coldwater Creek, we had 3 bins for containers, plastic, glass and aluminum. The weird thing is that we found out the glass one was just being dumped in the garbage because there wasn't any place to recycle the glass around.
So tell us about the market?
What is the weather like and the people. Can you understand their spanish??
Love ya. Mom
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