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Really enjoyed this read! This post makes me think of the miles of garbage piles my girlfriend and I have been seeing as we bicycle across Peru that mark the outskirts of a metropolitan area. It can be a bit disheartening to carry our trash out of the desert every day, only to realize that somebody might just throw it into the desert again once we throw it in a trash bin. I think as coming from a developed country, we forget how much waste disposal is a problem in the parts of the world where it's too expensive, to hard to reach or there's insufficient organization.

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Thanks for these thoughts, Mori. It’s a huge problem and one that we often ignore as we decide to focus on the shinier challenge of moving to another frontier.

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