Background

According to Fundacion Basura, each person in Chile generates 1,5 kilograms of trash per day. Additionally, large part of this trash is plastic, material with important pollution rates and without an organic degradation. Therefore, these elements remain in time, destroying the sea, the air and the ground.

The neoliberalism of our time imposes a culture of consumption and waste, in a frenetic rhythm where anything is made with plastic and disposable, just for use in a short space of time. This garbage is affecting the earth and affecting ourselves, which has made the situation critic and probably, unsustainable later. It is very important begin now to change that, is a responsibility that we have with the earth, and with the future generations.

Problem

It is relevant that the common people changes there daily life for a life with less waste and more recycling. The anthropology can help to solve this problem, with this discipline we can analyze the cultural practices that produce a lot of waste and find more ecology’s alternatives, oriented to clean and protect the nature.