Hannah Dondy-Kaplan of Waste Connections in Vancouver, Washington has sent us some very nice pictures from her recent trip to Guatemala.

Here’s the message she sent along with the pictures:

“The car parts are from Flores, which is the hopping off point for seeing the ruins of Tikal, but we saw these in numerous towns. I guess they just take the place of cement columns?

The organics bins are from the Biotopo de Quetzal in the cloudforest outside of Coban in central Guatemala. No Quetzals, but it’s nice to see they have some form of organics recycling. Unfortunately both bins were empty so I couldn’t check to see how they were being used. (There were no signs or other forms of education around them).”

Thanks Hannah for sharing these pictures!

This week’s unique pictures come to us from Faithful Reader Deanna Carveth of Snohomish County. Here’s the e-mail she sent along with the pictures-Brian

“Snohomish County is increasing its efforts to divert green waste into composting and other beneficial use programs. Attached is a customer who brought us a storm impacted tree in compliance with our cover your load requirements. It didn’t come off the truck, but….”