About throwing away. Recycling.

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I just read a post by @fleura about throwing away and recycling. And I remembered again that in my country people have turned the beautiful Atacama desert into a dumpster. When I when there with my husband over 30 years ago, the dirt was near the highway. From the vehicle´s window you could see cigarette butts and packages, banana peels and dirty diapers. I was shocked. But later on I read that now, in my country, they buy cheap clothes in containers. They make enough money only if they sell a few of the garments. The rest is taken away to illegal dumpsters in the desert and there are mountains of those clothes made with man made fibers. And I have also seen that there is an "island" of plastic somewhere in the ocean that is a big as Australia. We are now starting to recycle a bit here. But I´m sure that we recycle a lot less than what we throw away. I raised my 2 daughters with cloth diapers. Surely it was not fun. But it is better than to do some math on how a diaper is made and then multiply by what they use. My first daughter was rich. She had 42 diapers as I was given an extra half dozen. My second daughter was born a little over 2 years later. By then Tania only used diapers at night and they often came out clean. I washed the 36 best ones for Claudia and those were hers. As a second baby, she had 6 less than her sister. I never thought that I was a heroine because I was using them. I could name a thousand things we all did then that meant our planet was not as polluted. Please do recycle!!!