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just turn to dropping it off in the municipal figuring that it’s their
responsibility to be responsible. But they are not. They are trying to
separate now. They are trying to separate organic stuff with non-organics.
And the organic stuff they be turning(?) it into compost and selling it, which
is a really good project and the other thing what they have been doing with
the non-biodegradable is what they have always done with the trash: put it
in the dump-truck and take it up to the part of the hill over there and dump
it over in revine(?) to the other side, which is totally unresponsible. And
even now what they are making is dumping on the way up. (...) And it’s
kind of –here we supposed to be ecotourist – I got the refuge up there
which we are calling right now an ecolodge, sometimes we call it an
ecolodge, sometimes it is called a refuge and you know we are having it
now, we don’t dig holes up there anymore, we were doing the same thing
up there. But we decided not to do there, in some point people would
better bring down what they take up. In terms of banana peels, the
biodegradable,… we can dig a hole and bury them right there, it is
superficially even. And we got a septic system up there for toilets and stuff,
just like we do here. We’ve been pulling down all the trash, bringing it
down and taking it down and dropping it off to the municipio. So we’ve
been responsible in the fact that we don’t leave our trash up there. We
bring it down and then we take it to a designated area. But I know that the
designated area isn’t being responsible at this point. Anyway, that’s all we
do.” (Charly Wyatt 2001, Vilcabamba)
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Schon allein die Trennung zwischen organischem und anorganischem Müll
eines Hotels trägt zu einem ökologischen Verantwortungsbewusstsein bei:
“Like take for example: It´s not difficult to separate the garbage into two
containers to be in with. And then we deal with non-biodegradable
including then in the Loja-System and the other goes into a compost hole.
Only that would make a hotel be a bit of an eco-hotel, just to know that
they can recycle and dispose of the surplus garbage or the garbage that
the ecotourism provide, produce wisely and with honest concern.” (Orlando
Falco 2001, Vilcabamba)
Touristen schneiden bezüglich der Müllproduktion sehr gut ab, Luis Bejerano
meint sogar, dass sich Touristen in punkto Abfallverursachung viel
disziplinierter verhalten als die lokale Bevölkerung.
“Pero ventajosamente en ese campo el turista es un tipo de persona
mucho más disciplinado que nosotros mismos los ecuatorianos - tanto en
la ciudad como en el campo. Si se fuma un cigarrillo, la colilla la llevan en
su bolsillo de una punta para la subir a la casa. Nosotros todavía no
avanzamos a reflexionar y hacer reflexionar a las personas en ese tipo de
campo, de que necesariamente es importante la conservación ecológica.
De ahí al impacto ecológico normalmente el turista no se ve, no hay
problemas. Puede hubiera un impacto ecológico normalmente de parte de
los turistas hubieron diferentes senderos por ahí destruidos, que tiran