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.
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.
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.
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.