Day 12: July 10
In the morning we did a beach clean up at the village on the other side of the island. It is interesting because the people over there do not have the means to an advanced waste systems like us. So the small amount of trash they do accumulate (Wrappers, bottles etc.), they either just throw onto the beach (then two pools of trash get accumulated on each end of the each) and they burn whatever they do collect in trash cans. We, as developed westerns, consider that environmentally irresponsible. However, if you really think about it, their less-developed lifestyle is much less damaging to the environment since they have very little processed goods, small contact to non-natural resources and pure volume (~40 people live in the village). Not that landfills are environmentally friendly them selves...
However, we were to collect as much trash as we could in three small bags and sort it, seeing what their is the most of. The whole class is aware that styrofoam in the ocean is very damaging to marine life and we kept our eye for that the most. So most of what we got was styrofoam with some plastic as well. Apparently we are suppose to go back next week, so we can track how much accumulates in a week, and prove that it will always wash back becasue of currents and things. But I do not think that really makes sense as we did not get even a fraction of the trash with our bag/time/carry capacities.
In the afternoon I went to Chachahuate, a nearby where the native Hondurans live. We went there, bought some coconut rolls, hung out with some kids and came back. Not different from the village on our island. Then my research.
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