basura

This is very disheartening. About every week we had to go take a trash run because of the shear amount of trash that a group like ours produces. We were told that we were going to have to burn it because their land fill is really small. The first visit out there shocked me.

Cans, bottles, diapers, metal. I was honestly expecting something much more pristine (I am not sure how pristine a trash dump can be), more pastoral. I think that I wanted to believe that our consumer, materialistic, disposable culture had not reached theirs. I suppose I should feel slightly relieved that this is the whole town's dump and it is only as small as it is. I feel guilty, though. I do not have a solution, but there has to be a better way than burn or bury.