Please bring your recycle items to the newly cleared lot just behind the primary school. You will see a "La Manzanilla Hermosa" banner, and another sign from the school about recycling hanging on the fence. PLEASE do not leave trash! This will set back this important initiative!!
Here is what can currently be accepted, and where to put it. (There is some temporary signage at the site).
Place separately in the metal cages:
Plastic bottles (with or without lids) All plastic that contained water, soft drinks, juice, milk or cleaning products (e.g. chlorine, pinol, suavitel), Plastic chairs, crates & buckets NO cooking oil plastic bottles NO plastic bags NO styrofoam
In separate cage: Aluminum cans NO foil
In large empty water bottle: Batteries also, car batteries can be placed next to that bottle
Put the following items separately in large "Jumbo" nylon bags: Mixed Paper & Books
Put in separate Jumbo: Cardboard
In separate Jumbo: Mixed Metal (Scrap metal) Tin (including tin beer & soft drink bottle caps) dog food cans, cans from food, etc
We are not ready to accept GLASS, but hope to soon, perhaps as early as April or May 2018.
Of course we all have questions about whether some items can be recycled. For now. please put one of these "may or may not be recyclable" items along the side fence, and I will ask the Recicladora Tenacatita about them.
Yes, you do need to transport your recyclables to this first site. It's a start, and with the help of our volunteers, students and their families, and El Municipio de La Huerta, we hope to expand and improve separation of recyclables, (including organic material), so that we can reduce the quantity entering the land fill.
Thank you for saving these things in your homes until now!
If you have suggestions or want to help out, please contact me. It takes a village!
Thanks to everyone who saved their bottles, carried them to the lot behind the Primary School, and to those who expressed gratitude that we got this first recycle site going!
We know that this is a "seasonal community" - very different in summer and winter. For the winter snowbirds, it would be most helpful if on your visits to the site you check around for any problems or potential issues. Maybe pick up a few things that haven't made it to their proper spot? Also could use some better signage if any creative person would like to make them.
Like any project, this will take maintenance and continuing effort to keep it working. Ideally we would have a volunteer or paid person from the school or parent community to help keep things tidy and flowing. We will also be looking at giving the local blessed garbage workers some incentive to increase town participation in separating the waste stream. Perhaps we will have some funds when realize the tiny cash flow that will be coming in from the recycling. Vamos a ver... we'll see!
In the meantime, please contact me with any suggestions, offers to help, or donations.
I would be happy to make the signs for each dump site. Please send me all the different names...and Spanish as well. We can discuss what material to use that will summer over!