Trash
Sometimes, when I’m in Baja, I fall into the trap of seeing a trash can and thinking it works like America where some big truck comes and takes all the unsightly waste to the landfill. The reality, is often a bit different….
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April 20th, 2007 at 9:47 am
The Canyon at ‘Salsi’ always sickens me!
April 20th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
well..in the case of this canyon that you just show I must say that 90% of the trash is produced by the visitors. I must say that even for an “underdeveloped” area, as most people wil consider it…they recycle, and refill beer, coke bottles, plastic containers etc, basically you are charged in the ‘abarrotes” if you keep them and you don;t return them back…a basic things that we do not do here because multipacks are “cooler”.
So unfortunatelly, that’s true that the intraestructureneeds to be improved, but that’s true that the american teenagers that i;ve seen getting totally high and drunk in Salsi and K38 just 30 min far from the border to do whatver they cannot do here..it implies that most of this trash and shit comes from them and then it’s left.
to the rancho owners…5 to8$ a night to camp…is money that even non sense students can afford to piss off.
Its your shit, you pick it up….the rest of the Baja garbage, p[roduced by themselves…is mainly compost.
AY AY AY AY AY….La Baja, me mata!!!!!!
April 21st, 2007 at 4:40 pm
When I was a very little kid California beaches looked a lot like this. Then in the 70’s the government started the whole “Don’t be a Litter Bug” campaign. Then they ran the classic tv commercials of the Indian shedding that lone tear while surveying mounds of trash. Then trash cans appeared at beaches. 30 years later the beaches in southern California are mostly clean.
Whenever I camp in Baja I bring a bunch of big Hefty bags and a pair of gloves. You can fill up all your bags in about an hour and not make a dent in the amount of trash. It’s crazy.
April 24th, 2007 at 7:02 am
I took a trip to an out island in the bahamas, stayed with a local in his apartment he built for visitors. They had a big hole in the rock at the back of the house where they threw all the trash, and when it got full enough, they just lit it on fire. Seemed to work for them, hope they didn’t breathe in too many toxic fumes.