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Originally Posted by jackieboo
Now we're at over 400 views on this thread and only one person has PM'd me to discuss serious solutions. Why?
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jackieboo,
perhaps because, like me, they haven't yet thought of a solution that they feel would work.
i'm more familiar with cabarete than sosua, and as a smaller area it should be easier to clean up. my initial thought was the addition of sidewalk trash bins would help, but i don't think that alone is sufficient.
your idea for a once a week/month 'trash for cash' for the area between cabarete and sosua might work, it certainly wouldn't do any harm.
for within the cities, i think i'd try the 'disney world' approach. if you ever walk through a disney park, there are employees constantly sweeping up every leaf or piece of errant trash. as far as i can see, that's their only job.
i know you expressed not wanting to hire anyone, but perhaps with your drive to accomplish something you can band together a few people to convince businesses to contribute funds & perhaps management to the effort? enough interest, perhaps the cities themselves will hire the people if the funds are known to be available.
1. create core group of motivated people led by yourself
2. determine # of people to hire in each city, estimate cost
3. present concept, willingness to participate, and request for participation to Ashoresoca (hotel/restuarant association)
4. seek funds from businesses
5. put out some trash cans on the streets in front of businesses that will commit to emptying them regularly.
6. buy brooms, dust pans
7. hire employees
8. put them to work
If you could get a commitment from businesses and individuals of say, RD$100,000 monthly. That could hire, what, 10-15 people full time for cleanup duties?
It might not sound like much initially, but just 15 people = 30,000 man hours of clean up annually.
Put 2-4 in Cabarete. The other 10-12 in Sosua. Get more funds? More people.
Perhaps even have them work at night when there are fewer cars parked and sidewalks aren't as jammed.
Another thought to fund any type of clean-up project... placement of 'clean up sosua/cabarete' cans at hotels/businesses/restaurants where tourists can donate to the effort. It's actually a good enough cause to have someone soliciting donations from tourists.
If you are able to get something together, I'll contribute funds to the effort.