In Finland got rid of the garbage in the nature and forest fires

Peterburzhenka Tanya under the name chellove4ishe, sincerely in love with your solar city, told about the neighboring Finland:

Imagine the hectares of forest, national parks with fire pits, firewood, tables and pavilions, places for tents, toilets, in the end. When, in order to rest in the forest, there is no need to collect garbage, broken bottles for those who were here before you.

For the first time confronted with laavu (translated from Finnish as "overhang"), I was a bit shocked — acquaintance with them occurred in Repovesi, and, besides the beauty of the Park itself, that this care and thoughtfulness is very captivating.

Places in many places across the country and available to all for free: how to the local population and tourists. For clarity on the website laavu.org chose near the border.

On the website marked laavu — canopy (like a house in the same room, but only three walls and a floor) plus a place for a bonfire and cats (house with a door and Windows and a hearth inside — perfect for winter nights in the warmth).

In the photo specially the most ascetic of all met laavu (but even with him next to the wood, a place under the hearth).

The rest of the story is based on the example of the Park Repovesi, although such points in Finland a lot.

Let us consider in detail the most popular laavu near the Park entrance, next to the bridge Lapinsalmi.

But first read the rules, the most important of which reads: "All the combustible garbage is burned, the rest is carried away with you." In the Park there are no rubbish bins, and not a single candy wrapper on the trail you will encounter.

Fires can burn only in equipped areas indicated on the map.

And will there be a different choice, if in equipped areas is firewood and an axe? In many places it is found and the box of charcoal and a spatula, in order to keep everything clean. Presented how quickly the drag we have in the forest here's a prepared supply of firewood and an axe?

And the place itself under the seat-thought and under cooking meat and sausages, and under the pot. And even how to hide the home from rain, also thought.

Near the fire tables and benches, but because the place is in demand, then the foci of several.

And all this happens in close proximity to the water source.

To Parking you can arrive in style by boat, eat and move on.

In the case of wind, there are tables and benches, which are hidden under the canopy.

It would seem, nothing complicated — just a bit of funding and the desire to make camping comfortable and to protect nature from people.

No man will run to make a fire somewhere out there, if here are ready-made of wood and in case of snow or rain hearth under a canopy.

In Repovesi many marked Hiking and water routes, and, having gone for the whole day, you can be sure that there are a number of lesions.

Or Parking a little more like this, next to the former timber rafting.

The same with firewood.

And with mooring. See at least somewhere in the trash? The number of people coming to the Park is enormous. At the entrance to the Park there is Parking, all the things are kept either in a backpack or in a boat or Bicycle; but campers find in themselves the desire and in their backpacks a place to carry all rubbish with you.

And last point — the toilet, I did not photograph him inside (but the pouch with wood chips and there are instructions on what to do), toilet paper (and here, excuse, a plea, Yes we even on the Russian side of the border toilet paper is not found), on the right toilet for the disabled — see the angle of entry?

Well, the answer to the question of how to get rid of garbage and fires: to create places and conditions that people have no desire to litter or start fires anywhere. And of course, time to clean. If you walk in Helsinki on a weekend morning in 5-6 hours, you will see how littered strolling youth of the awakening city, especially at stations, but by 7 no paper will be the streets will be not only cleaned, but washed.