Easter Island is extremely vulnerable to garbage. There is hardly any
place to store garbage; in fact there’s only one garbage dump. Not only people
living on the island but also the tourists produce garbage. Lately the
islanders collected plastic garbage that the ocean had drifted onto its shores.
Garbage is divided into several categories, so that some of the garbage
can be recycled.
The collection bins have notions in Rapanui and Spanish (Castellano).
The black bin is for aluminum, the red one for electronic waste, the blue one
for paper and carton, the yellow one for plastic bottles, and the green one for
glass or glass bottles. Everything should be cleaned before being dropped into
these collection bins.
Plastic bottles can be flattened and pressed, but have to be
transported back to mainland Chile.
Still there remains lots of garbage that can’t be separated and
recycled. What should become of this waste? Build a new island? No, only
restrictions on what can be taken to Easter Island may reduce the problem.
That's all I have concerning the garbage dump - a picture out of a running car on a rainy day
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