The Conservation Project of Santa Marianita
- Danielle Norris
- Apr 15, 2022
- 4 min read
Updated: Jun 27
By Danielle Norris
As you walk through cities, beaches, and towns, what problems do you see? What are the problems that we ignore and turn a blind eye to? For me, and many others, it is waste and pollution.We live in a throwaway society. I have noticed it back home in Canada and here on my favorite beach in Santa Marianita, Ecuador. But it doesn't have to be this way.
Society once revered the sentiment that says “one person's trash is another person’s treasure,” but people collectively have become more and more wasteful. We have cultivated a throwaway culture where humans overindulge, waste in droves, and use a plethora of single use plastics. We then turn a blind eye to this ever-growing problem.
