Zero Waste in Punta Cana: Garbage and Tourism in the Dominican Republic

Kheel, Jake

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dc.creator	Kheel, Jake
dc.date	2015
dc.date.accessioned	2016-03-03T17:56:42Z
dc.date.available	2016-03-03T17:56:42Z
dc.identifier.citation	Kheel, Jake. 2015. Zero Waste in Punta Cana: Garbage and Tourism in the Dominican Republic. Revista Harvard Review of Latin America, winter 2015, 14(2):63-65.	es_ES
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10469/8096
dc.description	I never imagined that my job at a leading Dominican resort would be so dirty—at least not at the beginning. I spent my first months as environmental director of Puntacana Resort & Club with my team opening and examining hundreds of bags of garbage generated by the resort and its airport. We categorized the waste material to figure out how we might minimize the purchase of unusable materials or find alternative final destinations for our waste, rather than the dump we were using when I arrived. Tourism makes garbage. At that time, in 2005, the Punta Cana region, one of the fastest growing destinations in the Caribbean, with more than 30,000 hotel rooms and close to two million arriving passengers yearly, produced between twenty and thirty tons of garbage daily.	es_ES
dc.format	p. 63-65	es_ES
dc.language	eng	es_ES
dc.publisher	Cambridge. MA, Estados Unidos : Harvard University.	es_ES
dc.rights	openAccess
dc.subject	DESECHOS	es_ES
dc.subject	ADMINISTRACIÓN DE DESPERDICIOS	es_ES
dc.subject	ECOTURISMO	es_ES
dc.subject	INDUSTRIA HOTELERA	es_ES
dc.subject	RECICLAJE	es_ES
dc.subject	REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA	es_ES
dc.title	Zero Waste in Punta Cana: Garbage and Tourism in the Dominican Republic	es_ES
dc.type	article	es_ES
dc.tipo.spa	Artículo	es_ES