The environment we live in

     Nowadays it is fashionable for the regular citizen to care about the environment. Honestly, the human being as a race is making little to no effort to care about the environment as a whole. In some cities, smog levels grow so high that it becomes impossible to survive in them. Noise pollution afflict people with stress and the busy city life leaves us with little time to care about living a cleaner and healthier life.

     Regardless, there are people who, without leaving much aside, make an effort to keep the air clean and I am one of them. I have a friend who's part of a recycling ONG and has attempted to make me join but, I haven't been able to participate. Anyhow, he has taught me some practical techniques that I do put in practice, such as clasifying trash; paper on the one side, vegetables on another and plastics on another bag...we take plastic bottles to a friend's since he has a project to turn them into bio-bricks, which are plastic bottles which nobody uses anymore and people place trash inside in order to build things with them. We also use low consume light bulbs and we unplug everything before leaving home, except the fridge of course, for obvious reasons. We have a car but only mom uses it to go to work and some other ocations, such as when we visit my grandma and we don't have much time. On other ocations, we use public transport...and also to save money. I'd love to use my bicycle to go wherever I wanted, but I live very far away from everywhere, and I think only a sportsman would be able to go from Puente Alto to the city center...and I'm no athlete myself.

     Chile should be wary of pollution such as in Mexico or China. Without laws, it won't be possible.