Red and (not so) green

Every monday morning when I pass through the pastos of my Campus I found myself among a sad wasteland. Beer cans, bottles of almost any spirit you could imagine, and the whole place turned into a dumpster. It gets even worse on March, when the mechoneo also takes its toll (and stench). All of that pitiful sight is crowned by four containers of different colours strapped to a metal grid with a post calling to use them to recycle.

I guess the main function of this recycling point is just to add a sarcastic turn to the landscape.

But even more ironic is the fact that the very same students that cause this mess on a weekly basis are always taking pride on their progressive values, which includes very often to stand for the defence of almost every environmental cause on Chile.

Maybe it’s the booze what turns these paladins of Pascua Lama, Alto Maipo, Caimanes, Punta de Choros and so many others into regular filthy citizens of the third world. Maybe they don’t get the actual meaning of the word environment, and don’t realize the fact that environment is also the place where they’re actually standing. Or maybe, just maybe, they’ve never really cared, and are just posing to fit in the ‘Gomezmillean’ leftist crowds.

For my part, today me and my friends had some cans of after-class Beckers. Yes, we threw the (few) cigarette litters everywhere, but I had the decency of smashing the cans and dispose them in the recycle point. The thing is that, when I opened the cans container lid, I found it half-filled with glass bottles, papers, even a cardboard box. Whoever put it there didn’t even took a few second to unfold it.