Chancay Part II

During our mini-FBT we visited Chancay's botadero (dump.) The botadero will soon be changed into a micro-relleno sanitario (land fill.) Botaderos are very common throughout Peru. The garbage trucks bring the garbage to the outskirts of town and dump at the site. In the botadero picture you can see the house of one of the families who live at the botadero to sort through the garbage for recycling and then burn the remnants. They are paid by another man who pays just slightly more than the Municipality to undercut the Municipality. The relleno will do wonders for Chancay and I hope that my site can one day have a relleno as well! After this we visited a beautiful lagoon where tons of water lettuce grows. In the photo you can see the interesting gradient of nature (lagoon), man (city), and nature (sand dune.) When you look at the third picture you see the sad reality that it is man (wasteland), nature (lagoon), man (city), and nature (sand dune.) The botadero next to this lagoon was used for over 20 years by Lima and it has formed a literal wasteland that is polluting this lagoon and the nearby ocean. The botadero was placed right near the ocean and when we went to the beach, the beach was coated in dead Muy-muys (sand crabs.)

Chancay's new botadero, soon to be relleno sanitario

The lagoon

The wasteland/lagoon

Literal wasteland

Mike and I at the beach!