san pedro la laguna Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 07:30:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Life without single-use plastics: the case of San Pedro La Laguna https://www.greenoptimistic.com/life-without-single-use-plastics-the-case-of-san-pedro-la-laguna-20190125/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/life-without-single-use-plastics-the-case-of-san-pedro-la-laguna-20190125/#respond Fri, 25 Jan 2019 07:30:19 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=67779 “You don’t need a straw for beer, so why use one for soda?” argues Victor Tuch Gonzales, municipal planning director in the Guatemalan town of San Pedro La Laguna. By 2016, the town, and the nearby lake of Lake Atitlan, were drowning in plastic. The waste disposal plant that had been built to handle ten […]

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