This is apparently how the recycling industry works in China: People ride around on bikes, and pick up recyclables wherever they might find it, and haul it to wherever it goes.
Those cardboard stacks are actually kinda tiny compared to some of the bicycle loads we saw in Beijing - I remember several bikes with some combination of cardboard and plastic bottles stacked 8 or 10 feet high. Quite impressive, actually.
This journal once chronicled the experience of a low-level American diplomat living in Guatemala. Then he went to Latvia, and Afghanistan, and then back "home" to Washington, DC for a bit. He is now serving in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. If you are one of the few people of no blood relation to the authors who has come here in search of Guatemalan content, here are a few choices from the archives that we like:
In Afghanistan, the photographic opportunities were often limited to what we could sneak with a point-and-shoot camera out the bulletproof window of a speeding SUV. But sometimes we got out and about. A few favorites from that tour:
We've also vacationed aggressively in each region we've been posted in, and taken some epic home leave trips, usually leading to better photos than those where we were posted. Those photos are included in the blog, but somehow holiday snaps seem beneath this sidebar.
1 comment:
Those cardboard stacks are actually kinda tiny compared to some of the bicycle loads we saw in Beijing - I remember several bikes with some combination of cardboard and plastic bottles stacked 8 or 10 feet high. Quite impressive, actually.
Post a Comment