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| Ti Malice on a Florida beach (by balloonsblow.org). |
Recently, Florida resident Tom emailed me asking about the Ti
Malice brand that he saw in the billboards in this post. Turns out the tubs that hold this yellow
margarine-like product are washing up in Florida, and apparently enough of them
that caused the Floridian beach comber to inquire ‘What’s up with Ti Malice?’ See the photo taken by Danielle and Chelsea of
Balloons Blow, a non-profit that picks up trash from Florida beaches (and visit
their facebook page).
Ti Malice is a character in a Haitian children’s story. He is the mischievous counterpart to his
friend (or brother?) Bouki. And he is
causing more trouble by washing up in Florida.
This poses the questions:
- Are there more tubs of Ti Malice than other brands being used then thrown away in Haiti?
- Are the Ti Malice tubs sturdier than the other tubs?
Might make a good Master’s thesis!
And will also make a good classroom lesson about littering and
the trash disposal systems in Haiti. As
far as I can tell, people either burn trash or throw it in the streams and on
the beaches. I’ve also seen systems (well, once, on a missionary compound) in
which two pits are dug, one for burnables, and one for things that shouldn’t be
burned (plastic, glass etc.). This
second pit is buried when full and another pit dug. I’ve also heard that garbage trucks pick up residential
trash in Les Cayes, but I have never seen this nor do I know where the trash is
taken.
I think I will make this a student
project this fall: Report on trash disposal practices in Les Cayes. Then perhaps we will have a campus clean up
and brave a beach cleanup. Once I learn
what we should do with all the trash!
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| The 'dock' in Les Cayes where we were picked up in the little wood boat to go to Ile a Vache. While waiting we saw a woman dump her garbage here. |
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| The beach in Jacmel. We saw people come out and dump their garbage here! |
