Environment!

I remember when I was at the school, we had more speech about the environment )how the world safe, about recycle, the global warming), but we didn't never something related with that... But when I was in Germany, at the school, the concern about environment is bigger that in Chile, in this moment I think. For example, I remember that every week one class had clean the school (I mean, clean up the papers, etc.), and in the school you have trashes with different colors for different things (one for paper, other for tins for all plastic and metallic, and other for organic things). I think that the concern about recycling you can learn since the school, because in this country the all people separate the things before take out the trash.. you can find different trashes in all places (in stadiums, in the airport, in the railway stations). The school have a important role in the society to have concern about safe the environment.
When I came back, I tried to recycle in my home, but it was useless, because the concern about recycle must start from the government, or the mayor of the city, and then the people can be more concerned to recycle. In my city, since three or two year, started with a "political of recycling", that means that all people must separate the papers and the other things.
Well, other thing is the compost. In my city are not much buildings. For this reason, the people lives in houses, with bigger yards in some houses, then more people concerns to keep very beautiful the yards, and some people have a little farm too. In those cases, the compost is very important because you use it as fertilizer. and you don't spend much money for a fertilizer because you use the organic matters to do that.
In Santiago, I don't do that because I live in a building xd. For this reason my way to contribute whit the environment is using a bike. I don't use often the public transport or cars, I prefer walking or using a bike. Other way to contribute wiht the environment maybe is participated in a organisation like Greenpace... I don't like that and I don't have time to participate in some things xd...