Recycling Chile, recycling Spain

Published: May 23, 2020, 7:03 p.m.

Leena Vuotovesi, the leader of environmental work in Europe\u2019s greenest town, Ii in Finland, travels to Chile and Spain to compare recycling practices. First she visits La Pintana - Chile\u2019s unlikely climate champion: an impoverished neighbourhood plagued by crime and violence that recycles more than any other town in Chile. Leena then goes to a pristine part of southern Spain - a country where municipal recycling rates lag way behind EU targets. She speaks to children, teachers and waste management experts to find out why Spanish people don\u2019t appear to care about recycling and to see what could be done to reduce environmental and economic damage.