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Trash thrown into storm drainage systems that doesn’t get picked up by the workers assigned to clean this mess post-festival will end up washing downstream in the next storm, and ultimately end up in the island’s waterways and the ocean. Coming…

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A human-created sustainability problem. The aftermath of some festivals in Puerto Rico mirror that of the US, with debris, litter and pollution created en masse and left behind for municipal workers to deal with. Not all of the litter will be found…

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One of the saddest sights seen in Puerto Rico during the Raíces Sustainable Disaster Relief Support Trip in January 2018 was the sea of litter that remained after a festival in San Sebastian. After learning of and seeing first hand that many places…

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Destroyed gas station in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico. Debris from the collapsed structures remained four months after the storm had destroyed it. This was a common sight around the island in January 2018.

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A gas station in San Sebstian, Puerto Rico which was damaged but not destroyed by Hurricane Maria. It remained closed four months after the storm when this photograph was taken.

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Debris from a gas station in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, destroyed by Hurricane María.

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Destroyed gas station in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico.

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Farmland in San Sebastian that is being used to grow gandules, or pigeon peas, after being cleared following Hurricane María.

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Road closed along the shoreline of Lake Guajataca in San Sebastian due to damage sustained during Hurricane María as well as the ongoing draining of the lake and repair and restoration of the dam.

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Gandules, or pigeon peas, growing on trellises in the mountains of San Sebastian.

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In the week Raíces crew members spent on the island, only three closed roads were encountered. One of them was this major road for western mountain towns, PR-111, where a sinkhole opened in a section of the road going through San Sebastian.
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