Finding a permanent site for the garbage dump is proving to be a real headache for the El Grullo municipality. Whenever a site is chosen, landowners and their neighbours complain of potential odour and visual impacts on the landscape.
In 1992, the dump, located adjacent to the Ayuquila river is hit by one of the largest floods in history spreading waste from the site all over the valley of El Grullo. Subsequently, the municipal president asks the Institute’s environmental education coordinator, Salvador García, to try to come up with a solution to the problem.
Salvador begins by studying recycling as a way to reduce waste generation and makes his home into an experimental and demonstration site. He documents all of the processes that formed part of his demonstration programmes, including the development of techniques for "home organic farming" based on the composting of recycled organic wastes. The would-be famous El Grullo municipal recycling program had begun.
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