Indeed, volunteers continue to do a lot of litter patrolling and the results are very apparent. Also, people continue to litter less, which is attributable to many reasons.
I intend to ensure there are 2 public waste cans on each block throughout the village (except on the beach and hill). Many households and businesses already host a public waste can and La Manzanilla Hermosa is augmenting those.
There are so many worthy causes that the bookstore and resale shop supports and those causes are never-ending. I encourage you to let me cover the public waste can costs from my personal annual environmental budget.
Could you could possibly host a garbage truck tip jar at the store? I think it is probably a challenge for some people to encounter the truck and a central tip jar might help. The proceeds could be periodically handed to the driver.
To respond to your questions:
The timing for getting the cans from Guadalajara is beyond my control. It depends on the truck driver's next seasonal produce run from La Manzanilla to Guadalajara. He is able to return loaded with 30 cans. He might do so in late March.
The cost of each can is 400 pesos.
The bigger barrels are only 250 pesos but the Delgado said they are not preferred for the garbage truck workers because of the size. We deployed 10 of them last year (before knowing) and subsequently deployed 40 of the preferred size.
I also pay some pesos to the: 1. truck driver, 2. person who drills drainage holes and paints the cans, and 3. family who helps me place them (their truck and labor). The unit price I pay for these aspects is on USB thumb drives. My laptop is ailing so I only fire it up a couple of times week. Thus, I can't provide that information now.
Feel free to email me at mercer.vicki@gmail.com.
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