With the onset of the pandemic in the last year, the cycling community grew exponentially. The covid-19 restrictions themselves caused many people to turn their eyes to the sport. Cycling trails filled with new riders frequently and with increasing intensity, weekends became massive days of cyclists seeking to escape confinement. Entire families, young people, fathers, mothers, etc. all of them with their bikes excited and happy, enjoying their extraordinary adventure in the middle of forests and mountains that only Cusco can offer you.
Unfortunately, not everything was happiness, the increase of new cyclists also led to an increase in solid waste at worrying levels. Plastic bottles, beer bottles, plastic bags, and even plastic garbage were the protagonists of these routes. The lack of culture and respect for nature endangered the ecosystem and the very vision of a natural and beautiful Andean panorama.
Explorinka as a company saw the problem and together with its team, we put our grain of sand. The objective was to clean each route affected by trash, taking advantage of the fact that many riders were training, we made them participate in the collection of this waste. Each one took a bag and collected starting in a specific area, picking up kilos and more kilos of garbage. Other cyclists who were passing by, seeing this action, joined the activity with their bags in hand, they got down to work. The intention was very motivating, at that moment we believed that we could clean the whole world, there was no lack of anecdotes and empathy among cyclists, but it was satisfying just to participate and contribute with something to this kind action.
We know that picking up litter alone won't accomplish much, but it's more about educating every rider that pollution is a serious problem. We are aware that we must teach that we can use alternative environmentally friendly products. That's why Explorinka uses recycled and environmentally friendly products, also, like this day, we periodically join to clean the routes, showing every rider that passes by our side the importance of keeping our environment clean. Join us as well and join us in our cleaning tasks on the mountain biking trails in Cusco.
