Por Una Costa Rica Mas Limpia, One Mans Crusade Against Plastic Pollution in Costa Rica

Heraldo Monge doesn't own a car and he stops a lot as we walk to El Centro, stooping to pick up empty plastic bottles and random cigarette  butts off the sidewalk and rain gutters, "because, when it rains, the nicotine is washed into the rivers streams and oceans and it can harm marine life. Saving whales is Heraldos main concern, I find myself catching his enthusiasm wondering if each plastic bottle he picks up may indeed be one that was destined to make its way to the ocean sixty miles distant, to become lodged in a whales stomach.  When Heraldo is not giving talks at local schools, You may catch Heraldos Radio show, Por Una Costa Rica Mas Limpia Which means: For a Costa Rica More Clean, Here.