What gets recycled in the deepest canyon in the world?

So that Burro is going to haul those bottles up and out of the 2nd deepest Canyon in the world. Why? Well because those bottles have a value. That value happens to be 1 Sole per 1 liter glass bottle. Very similar to the redemption value in some of the states in the US...Oregon included. However as in Oregon and other states, the redemption material is recycled, here in Peru, it is Reused. Reuse a much more efficient method of turning something that was old new again. The resources these Peruvian brewing companies invest in transporting and cleaning old bottles is more economically and environmentally friendly when comparing it to recycling glass into new glass (or worse, aggregate). Always remember the hierarchy.... REDUCE (stop drinking so much?) Reuse and THEN Recycle. 

I included this to show the wishful thinking of the villages in the canyon or the municipality on the rim, Cobanaconde.  Perhaps these are put everywhere to please us gringos. Gringos love recycling, or the at least the warm fuzzies they get when they think something is getting recycled. Or, one is just happy they don`t have to carry their bottle to the top, clean conscience included.  It appears as though most bottles collected end up burned or just tossed into the river. Why? I´d suggest because there is no value connected to the plastic bottles. (also some hikers are lazy and won’t carry their own garbage out of the canyon) Unfortunately, to get some communities to recycle, there has to be a reason larger than the recycling-warm-and-fuzzy-feeling. When you are making less than $10 a day, your priorities are elsewhere.