It may really be the case that we are uncivilized and dirty by nature and all this recycling is still a modern invention to save more money for certain sectors of the economy. Maybe a lot of people are wrong. Human behavior is very curious. We are able to gather en masse at an event, whatever its category, leave our mark – the debris, the waste, the rubbish… – and go home. Animals are cleaner than humans. The day after the Girona-Osasuna match, there were piles of cans, papers and wrappers around the Montelivi stadium, as well as rubbish bins that could have been spilled and everything thrown onto the ground. It was disgusting. Another example of incivility: 24 hours after vehicles passed through part of the city of Angeles on the occasion of the Costa Brava Rally, there were beverage cans perfectly visible from the road at various points in the forest. With the danger that entails. Only one exception: On the corner of the famous Can Mascort restaurant – where dozens of onlookers had gathered to watch the cars go by and eat and drink as well – all the garbage generated was perfectly collected in garbage bags waiting to be hauled away. If we had not realized that civility is the sum of every individual gesture, we would have We have failed again as a society.
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