ASEE Prism, March 1st, 2008
An engineer fights on two fronts: against poverty in Argentina, old-style teaching at home.
MANY VISITORS are drawn to Buenos Aires for the nightlife, the cafés, or the tango. But it was trash that lured materials engineer Caroline Baillie back to Argentina's capital last summer. During a 2005 visit, she had been struck by a distinct legacy of the nation's crippling economic crisis: great numbers of impoverished trash pickers collecting and sorting discarded plastic and cardboard to sell to recyclers. "If you're out at 5 p.m., they're all in the streets scavenging," she says.
Based on her w...
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