Uneducated pigs are doing this. But when we don't like it we can always go, right? :dead::bunny: One day they will suffocate in their garbage...
The problems we have in our rivers got a name: Haitian migration to the DR.
B.S.
Blame it on "anyone else" as usual.
"Everyone" in the D.R. is responsible, one sees it happening all the time.
(Except you, since you do not live here)
Pichardo it matters not whether that is the main part of the river or not. Certainly the Haitians contribute to the street pollution but the majority of the pollution is done by Dominicans. Even when the streets are cleaned/swept a good deal of garbage goes into the storm sewers which go directly into the rivers. Our cleaner will clean in front of the school at 6 pm and by the morning the front area will be littered with plastic bottles, chip bags, candy wrappers, Styrofoam...etc, and in general Jarabacoa is cleaner than the average Dominican town.
If you ever slow down or stop just before La Sirena of the Autopisto in Santiago the smell of raw sewer from the creek there that runs into the Yaque will also incapacitate you. Pollution is a huge problem in the DR. tELL YOUR GOVERNMENT FRIENDS TO BUILD A CO-GENERATION PLANT OR TWO Instead of coal burners and burn all that garbage, melt the plastic into fence posts and pinic tables.
Pichardo it matters not whether that is the main part of the river or not. Certainly the Haitians contribute to the street pollution but the majority of the pollution is done by Dominicans. Even when the streets are cleaned/swept a good deal of garbage goes into the storm sewers which go directly into the rivers. Our cleaner will clean in front of the school at 6 pm and by the morning the front area will be littered with plastic bottles, chip bags, candy wrappers, Styrofoam...etc, and in general Jarabacoa is cleaner than the average Dominican town.
If you ever slow down or stop just before La Sirena of the Autopisto in Santiago the smell of raw sewer from the creek there that runs into the Yaque will also incapacitate you. Pollution is a huge problem in the DR. tELL YOUR GOVERNMENT FRIENDS TO BUILD A CO-GENERATION PLANT OR TWO Instead of coal burners and burn all that garbage, melt the plastic into fence posts and pinic tables.
Creeks will smell due to compost (naturally occurring).
Dominicans do their share of pollution (as I noted) but never has the problem reach what we have today.
This is a 70% Haitian imported problem. The poorer the worst the habits.
Creeks will smell due to compost (naturally occurring).
Dominicans do their share of pollution (as I noted) but never has the problem reach what we have today.
This is a 70% Haitian imported problem. The poorer the worst the habits.
Question: how can we blame a small segment of the population on an issue that is so wide spread? Are you suggesting that 10% of the population causes 70% of the problem. Let's take ownership of our problem, live by example and not blame immigrants, like what's happening to some extent in the US. It is easy to blame others, for our shortfalls. My mother, similar to the other thread 'nudist garbage...', organized a clean the streets event in our bario and today our streets, at the least the ones near our house, are clean. Pichardo, it sounds to me as if you have the power, for lack of a better word, to influence at least your friends, to clean the streets. Before this thread started I was thinking of organizing a 'let's clean our streams' event somewhere, maybe start in 'el 28'. But I tell you every time I think of it I say to myself, ok we clean this stream but I'm not really attacking the problem at its source, i.e. The people do not have a place to dump their garbage other than the stream, is there? No. So, who can help get a couple of garbage trucks out to all of Pedro Brand area on a regular and consistent basis? In short, Haitians, as I see it, are not the problem. We are.
Trust me, the smell in Santiago is not compost. I've spent my whole life around compost and know the difference. It is not a 70% Haitian created problem. That's a cop-out, and as far the poor living in an environment filled with garbage true enough in most circumstances, but those guys and gals driving by in their Prados produce lots of garbage and don't hestitate to throw it out the window.