El Ceibo - Social Environmental Programme 
Recover Palermo – Buenos Aires City – Argentina
Headquarters El Ceibo – Palermo

That’s right, we don’t recover the  material FIRST, we recover people, don’t forget that all of us have a very hard personal history, same as the children, the older people and the ones in the middle.
In 1996 we started writing this project, an environmental project, and the first thing  we asked ourselves was: “who does the rubbish belong to?” Because there was a law on rubbish  which prohibited collecting rubbish from the street, and there we realized that the rubbish belonged to the ones who generated it. 
The thing is that there’s people who don’t think this can be done… what I mean is that they do it because they think the rest don’t do it, but the good thing is that when they find out that there are already eight hundred neighbours or seven hundred neighbours participating… when they find out, well, there they get enthusiastic, they also start participating 
As the project is ours, the thing changed. The neighbour separates his garbage, keeps IT until the person from El Ceibo who  collects and recovers  the garbage, and there you can see that they don’t do it because they feel sorry, the neighbour is already participating. Do you realize what all of this means?
This is a new Argentina.  Let’s say that what we are doing is producing, generating work, a new business.