Chile Forum

A couple months ago as my wife and I were driving through the countryside where stunning natural beauty is occasionally spoiled by littering, I told her: "you know what would be great here were there's a littering problem and everything seems to find a private sponsor: Adopt a Highway."

Well, weren't we surprised to see last weekend that cleanliness on the road between ConCon and Quntero is now sponsored by Chilevision. The road was not squeaky clean, but it's a start. Off course this doesn't replace education and fines to try and change attitudes about littering, but I thought it was interesting. It does recognize that littering is a problem and it's nicer to drive on a clean road.

My hubby and I had the same thought AND we were driving that same stretch last week and noticed things looking cleaner. Hurray. We live right on F30-E near Campiche/Ventanas. We walk the ditch out front on both sides up and down our property line every other week picking up TONS of trash. We get looked at like we are crazy for doing so. But things will change and folks will start to pick up litter. This is a beautiful country...let's all do our part to clean it up and keep it clean.

I'm so glad to see even a minor movement towards keeping Chile beautiful. As a child growing up in California, I remember the campaigns on TV: "Keep America Beautiful", "Give a hoot, don't pollute". I've often wished the Chilean Government would start the educational process via TV and classrooms that we had here in the US. It will take an entire generation to see the results. But well worth the effort in such a lovely country as Chile. Also, as long as I'm posting about "Chile Lindo", how about locking up the spray paint and forbidding the sale to minors?

Texas also uses community service to pick up trash as part of their punishment for small-time criminal offenses.

John