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City: New York
State: Lima
Country: PE
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 

Category: Travel and Places
February 17th - March 1 was the WAVES for Development Pilot Project in Lobitos. 

While not always possible in a rural coastal community, WAVES did it's best to have a nuetral to postive impact on the physical environment. Here's how:

+ Class materials, including educational workbooks were printed on recycled paper.

+ Organic scraps from the kitchen were saved and given to a community member to feed her pigs.

+ Water was filtered (when there actually was water - more on that another time) and bought in 5 gallon jugs to avoid using a riduculous amount of single-use water bottles.

+ Fruit and vegetable seeds were saved and planted in a school garden area.

+ Over 20 garbage bags of trash were collected from the beach

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