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Article: It's in the bag: how a Central American community is making books out of trash.(Honduras, Analea Brauburger )
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- Earth Island Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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One of the first things Analea Brauburger noticed when she stepped off the plane in Honduras was the trash all over the airport parking lot.
"Litter is a major detractor from the beautiful naturaleza [nature]," the 27-year-old Peace Corps volunteer says. With nearly half its landscape devoted to forest, Honduras is the greenest of all Central American countries, more tree-covered than even eco-touristy Costa Rica. It's also covered with garbage. "The streets are filled with trash. People throw soda bottles and Styrofoam containers out the windows of buses without anyone blinking an eye," says Brauburger.
Brauburger soon realized that brightly colored ...