GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR (AFP) - Looking after the environment is paying off in Ecuador, at least for public transport users in the business hub of Guayaquil.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR - Looking after the environment is paying off in Ecuador, at least for public transport users in the business hub of Guayaquil.
Passengers who use the city's bus transit system, Metrovia, are now queueing at a newly installed machine, waiting to unload their plastic bottles for two cents each, which they can spend on public transport. The 76-year-old pensioner lives outside Guayaquil, a US$9 taxi ride into town. He makes the walk once a week, collecting plastic bottles from garbage cans and the streets along his way."The city is full of corruption and dirty. Before it wasn't like this, it was cleaner," he said.
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