Costa+rica+so+far

I am in Guacimo,which is located in the Limon province of Costa Rica in the Caribbean lowland area of the country. It really has not stopped raining since we arrived. It downpours for about half of the day.Costa Rica is at the very end of it's rainy season ,the dry season begins in the middle of December,.as you would imagine it is very green and tropical. The thing that amazes me the most is the tremendous amount of biodiversity,in one small area you will see deciduous trees,palm trees,hydraenga flowers,ginger flowers and birds of paradise flowers. We are staying in a dorm room at Earth University. Earth University is a private ,international non profit university which is dedicated to teaching students from all over the world about agricultural sciences. Basically Earth University recruits students from low income areas of Latin America and Africa and teach them how to operate businesses that are ecologically friendly. They teach them how to farm,raise animals, and grow crops that are environmentally sustainable. As part of their education they have to develop a plan for local businesses to teach them how to manage their waste. Costa Rica is a country of over 19,650 square miles and yet it only has three public landfills.The infrastructure is not available for people to dispose of their garbage properly. One of the tour guides told us that people will load their pick up truck with bags of garbage and dump it on the sides of the road because they have no other place to put it.The other destructive thing they do to get rid of garbage is they burn it, which then pollutes the air.Earth University has a landfill or dump which is the nicest dump I have ever been to they separate all of their garbage and recycle and or turn it into compost,there is no smell,no flies it looks like a park!