Establishing a Recycling Centre in Mexico

The recycling centre is very basic at the moment and there is a lot of work still to be done to improve the centre and make it run more efficiently. To achieve this, more workers and materials are required and in order to raise the money some brave volunteers and staff members took part in the Mini-challenge Mayathlon on...

After the GVI Mexico team and volunteers joined the Maraton ecologico de la Riviera Maya back in October 2012, to pay for construction material transportation and to continue building the Punta Allen recycling centre, we have finally raised more funds to continue building the centre. Community members in Punta...

A GVI Mexico team of enthusiastic and brave volunteers and  staff will be running an eco marathon - Maraton ecologico de la Riviera Maya - on  Sunday 28th October in order to raise 2000USD that will pay for construction  material transportation to continue building Punta Allen recycling center. Here are the...

Although we have completed many beach cleans throughout our time here at Pez Maya we have never recorded them on the Project Aware site. What better time to start than now? Here at Pez Maya we have a methodology for our beach cleans that occurs every Friday morning. Over the course of 12 weeks we cover close to 2 kilometers...

Every week, Staff and volunteers in Pez Maya, Mexico clean two hundred meters of beach on the stretch of coastline we live by. Over the course of twelve weeks we clean a transect of about two km in length and the amount of rubbish that we collect is quite simply staggering. The vast majority of this rubbish is plastic;...

After much preparation some staff and volunteers organized an Earth Day celebration for the small fishing town of Punta Allen.  The goal was to raise awareness on the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling, as well as keeping our beaches clean.  Punta Allen is a small fishing village immersed in the...

In the last few years the aim of setting up a recycling centre in Punta Allen, a fishing village situated within the UNESCO Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, has become, little by little, a reality, achieved thanks to all the donors and volunteers (both local and foreigners). The recycling center started to be built in December...

The recycling centre is finally under construction, the money was used to pay the builders to start with the frame of the centre. More construction material was bought and the workers managed to do a lot with what was purchased. Having a proper place to store the recycling will protect it from the sun, rain, wind, etc. This...

Daily collection of compost has been going really well with some donations helping to purchase hosing to water the compost area rather than carrying buckets a couple of hundred meters. Meanwhile construction of the centre continues. Electric wires and lamps have been purchased and installed to aid work meaning that the...

We would like to share the most recent trustee report from the GVI Charitable Trust. This report covers the six month period from July to December 2011. This has been by far the most successful period. In six months we have raised nearly as much as we did the whole previous year. This increase in funding has brought a...

We are very excited to share that construction at the recycling centre has now started. During the recent lobster festival celebration, we had a busy day in the recycling centre. After Tropical storm Rina, a lot of the plastic was blown away (as it does not have a proper storage place), so we joined forces to tidy up the...

The recycling project in Mexico is developing into a wonderful initiative. There are a few points around the small fishing village of Punta Allen where people have containers where they separate recycling. Everyday somebody will take  charge of collecting the recycling around town with a tricycle. They also collect...

After one year of hard work the recycling project continues! The recycling centre is taken care of by Doña Isabel and her family, she has been working really hard to continue collecting the plastics and organic waste from town. The people in town continue to separate their waste and put it in the containers around...

Our local Partners, Punta Allen Verde have made a brilliant short video to encourage recycling in the local area. The video uses humour to help people relate but also successfully illustrates how easy it is for everyone to contribute. Watch this great video here.

Things are going really well on the project Punta Allen Verde, we have been encouraged by the local people who are very motivated to keep up with the challenge. A visit to Xel-Ha recycling centre was organized to know a little bit more about waste separation and compost. Fourteen people from Punta Allen, adults and kids,...

The Kids Club and their mothers came to our research base in Pez Maya for a full day of activities. Early in the morning several cars came to our driveway full with kids and mothers to enjoy all the activities that we had prepared. We started the day with an EFR child care course for the mothers, Stu and Lluvia...