Another little cultural difference I've experienced after being outside the US for more than a year has to do with garbage... I have been quietly shocked at the amount of waste I have seen in the States – especially the amount of food and packaging that goes into the garbage cans and presumably to the landfills. It's only getting worse in Costa Rica too... but it's something that so many people don't even seem to think about or be concerned with. An important footnote to this is that Julio and I are environmentalists and try to live what we preach: “reduce, reuse, recycle” (including the reuse of food scraps through composting).
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