Recycling Chile, recycling Spain

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BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Leena Vuotovesi, the leader of environmental work in Europe’s greenest town, Ii in Finland, travels to Chile and Spain to compare recycling practices. First she visits La Pintana - Chile’s unlikely climate champion: an impoverished neighbourhood plagued by crime and violence that recycles more than any other town in Chile. Leena then goes to a pristine part of southern Spain - a country where municipal recycling rates lag way behind EU targets. She speaks to children, teachers and waste management experts to find out why Spanish people don’t appear to care about recycling and to see what could be done to reduce environmental and economic damage.

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0:00.0	Can you tell me what the very system says?
0:15.0	Okay.
0:17.0	You gotta take action on your trash, be responsible for it, you got to separate vegetables because it's important with all the system not just with vegetables the sun, to I don't know.
0:35.0	So it's all with all the system, not just with vegetables the sun, but to separate, I don't know, glass and plastic and take it to the green point
0:48.8	or take your vegetables to the track and also the carton like you know what I was it
0:55.6	a carton yeah carton like that carton to separate and give it to the other
1:01.2	persons who is responsible for the cartoons, which are
1:04.4	cartoneros.
1:06.4	Cartoniers.
1:08.4	Welcome to the documentary on the BBC World Service. I'm Lenena Vodovese and I'm in Lappintana,
1:16.0	just half an hour tribe from Santiago.
1:19.0	And I'm just about to jump into the truck which is collecting waste Chile from the north of Finland. I'm the leader of environmental work in the town of E, where we have managed to cut carbon emissions by 80% and cut waste by 25%.
1:50.0	La Bintana is also a climate champion. It recycles more household waste than any other town in Chile.
1:58.0	For this program, I'll be also visiting Spain. A country where almost 60% of household waste still
2:08.1	ends up in landfills. I'll be meeting some people who are keen to change that.
2:14.0	But first, let's see what Finland can learn from Chile.
2:20.0	I am now going to the truck.
2:22.0	Let's see. hello, Kratius. Let's see if I get in here to see what is really happening and how is this
2:30.6	ola going on, Nana.
2:34.0	Ola, can I come with you?
2:37.0	And we go to see what is happening.
2:40.0	Good.
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