CLEAN GARBAGE PROJECT Written by Paul F. Stapel Binghamton, N.Y.
from Mauricio Mayorga’s memoranda The Clean Garbage Project
(CGP) was developed by Mauricio Mayorga in 2008 to generate
action to eliminate damage done by world garbage. Mayorga places
special emphasis on teaching young children and students to
understand that they can stop being part of the problem created
by not recycling, thus heavily reducing if not eliminating the
severe environmental damage to our planet reasonably quickly. To
date at least 12,000 people in 27 different locations throughout
Colombia, Switzerland, Spain and Mexico have seen and
participated in at least one of Mayorga’s “garbage’ art
creations. All of them were in connection with EARTH DAY
NETWORKS and more recently on WORLD WATER DAY celebrations.
Mayorga helps us to understand that the majority of garbage
problems occur in third world countries where the people may not
understand the damage being done by garbage and trash infecting
our Earth. Mayorga invites principals of