People don't like change. Doesn't really matter what form that changes comes in. Eg. The introduction of dollar coin was ultimately a huge success up north and a dismal failure down south. Technological innovation in the DR will be driven by the necessity to keep local systems compatible with the rest of the world. Some of this change may be voluntary in the short term but a lot of it will be necessity driven. Whether the local population originally embraces these changes will be immaterial. Debit cards are taking off here just as they did elsewhere. Over time more and more people who have more than 100 pesos will come to rely on cashless payment methods such as nfc on their phones and chipped credit/debit cards. Change may be slow but it cannot be halted.
The garbage problem here is a societal attitude. Someone elsewhere already posted the solution. Mount a sustained public awareness campaign, teach environmental stewardship in schools, and fine the crap out of people and companies caught depositing refuse inappropriately. Nothing changes behavior faster than making it consistently more expensive to do the wrong thing over doing the right thing.
Nothing is going to happen any time soon on this front, but it could if "they" want it badly enough.
The garbage problem here is a societal attitude. Someone elsewhere already posted the solution. Mount a sustained public awareness campaign, teach environmental stewardship in schools, and fine the crap out of people and companies caught depositing refuse inappropriately. Nothing changes behavior faster than making it consistently more expensive to do the wrong thing over doing the right thing.
Nothing is going to happen any time soon on this front, but it could if "they" want it badly enough.
