How green are you?

I must say that I am not really an entirely ecologic person, but I have been becoming more and more conscious about taking care of our environment. Not at the point of having four or five different trash cans for each kind of recyclable garbage on my room or in my home in Puerto Montt, but I take more care of our planet than I used to do a few years ago.

In my home there are not many recycling habits, but at least we take care about how we dispose our wastes, as not to dispose used oil in the W.C. or in the sink, or not to dispose used batteries with the rest of the garbage.

I think that all we learn in school is not enough, since there are not many opportunities to learn about ecological habits or even to spend some time in separating garbage or reusing some bottles or packing. In my home we try to take care about a few things, but I think we are far away from being completely green.

But being green is not all about recycling. I also try to not to use electric energy if I do not need it, like using stairs instead of elevators or saving gas or water in shorter showers. However sometimes I feel that even when I am taking care of these things, there are many people that collapses the escalators or drive their cars with nobody else, polluting the already polluted Santiago.