Recycling Best Practices – Costa Rica

I am visiting Costa Rica and have been amazed at  its beauty.  We are staying at Villas Del Caribe near Puerta Viyao on the  Caribean Sea.  This hotel has a system of recycling which has impressed me. I am a fan of recycling even though I am a committed capitalist – I believe that sustainable operations will lead to more profitability in the long term.

About this system:

Firstly they have two handles on the counter, one for compost and one for sold recyclables.

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Note the blue and the red handles, if you pick up the handle there is a chute. You drop in your item and it is gone….

 

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So I am thinking this must be a huge pain to empty out! I do a little more investigation and find that there is a door on our patio with a simple sliding lock, if you open it up as illustrated above, then you can see there are two bags attached to the tubes from the kitchen. I assume that someone will come along and empty these tubes.

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When it is closed the door looks like this. I have not noticed any smell or any fruit flies.

If we had this feature it would eliminate that kitchen compost container. Making a system easy to use is one of the keys to getting people to follow the system – a lesson that applies to everything!

 

 

 

One Response to Recycling Best Practices – Costa Rica

  1. Samantha February 20, 2014 at 5:03 am #

    Yay recycling!! Looks like a great and simple system. Maybe you can bring this up with the folks in charge in Nova Scotia.. ha.

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