Recycling

Recycling really needs to be instituted everywhere as soon as possible. The landfill Monteverde uses will be full in about five years. The kids put recycling bins around the school and this week, a truck from the Municipality came for the first time to take the recyclables to a local hotel that will take them to a recycling center.

To the right, a couple of 8th graders are preparing recycling bins for the school. I would imagine a school like this with a focus on the environment would educate its students well enough to have every family recycling at least its organic waste by the time their eldest child reaches high school. The problem with encouraging the recycling of other things (plastic, glass, aluminum, etc.) is that Monteverde currently does not have any means of handling a large amount of recycling. It is only because the kids did some research and found out that one of the local hotels recycles (the Hotel Heliconia- support this hotel if you ever come to Monteverde) and asked if we could bring our recyclables to them that the school can now recycle reusable materials. I and some of the students and teachers now bring our recyclables here.


Below is Kaz climbing up the strangler fig. This has become a favorite pasttime of his.