Roughly 700K plastic bottles diverted from BVI’s waste stream
The Director of Waste Management, Marcus Solomon has indicated that almost 700,000 plastic bottles have been diverted from the territory’s waste stream.
According to Solomon, 46 bales of plastic were exported to Honduras this month to be recycled.
Solomon indicated that although recycling is relatively new to the territory, the department’s ongoing ‘We Recycle’ programme shows promise. The programme is an initiative created to promote recycling in communities throughout the BVI.
“I want to take this time to encourage people who are not recycling to start today,” Solomon said.
“It is easy to start with separating your plastics and glass. You can also compost your organic waste. When you are ready, drop off your plastics or glass at any of our conveniently located recycling stations throughout the territory,” he added.
The Waste Management boss added that businesses can take their plastic recyclables directly to Paraquita Bay and the glass recyclables directly to Pockwood Pond.
Recycle bin collection days for Tortola are daily whilst the scheduled days for Virgin Gorda and Jost Van Dyke are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with the inclusion of Saturday for Jost Van Dyke.
We Recycle is a collaborative program between the Virgin Islands government and Green VI which is a non-profit organisation established in 2009 meant to combat Climate Change through environmental improvements.
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Why allow water to be imported in plastic bottles to begin with?
are a better alternative than importing water bottled in plastic.
Green VI pioneered a move, which is slowly gaining traction. The Government could do so much more to “green” the VI economy, which would benefit residents and appeal to visitors too.
Our politicians, being bamboozled by outside interest and false science, and by “ignant” public, and postulated ill facts surrounding that particular well, closed a very beneficial source of water.
Things, common sense suggests that, it and all others should have been left open to serve the public in multiple ways.
Who wanted to drink from would have done so, and the rest would have remained “ignant” to the best tasting water around, and certainly more tastier that what is being served in the BVI for bottled water. To know is to know.
Others could have washed clothes and clean the house with it. {Ignant” herein does not suggest stupid, but represents not truly knowing.
Contractors could have used it for a fee. Farmers would be most benefitted by that water right under their feet. They could have used it during dry weather season in particular.
But primarily, well water could and should be developed, centralized and used for farming throughout the Territory, and government should suggest a fee if developed properly.
We have a resource sitting under our feet for centuries; yet we always have water shortages; are importing water of an inferior class, while paying an upscale price for it, when it could be put to good and profitable use.
The BVI would see a marked improvement in its local farm produce if the well water were used to effect.
As, it is chemical free unlike bottled and desalinated water. And, not so much plastic would be going into and poisoning the environment.
Yet those non-thinking knuckleheads, with hatred of their past, most of whom drank, cook, clean and bathe with the same water for decades, including their parents, grand parents, great and great great grands. Then one day came and all of a sudden “it no good.”
Those are a clear example of inept yet supposed forward thinking modern leaders, who sold out to foreign interest for kickbacks and other self-interest.
Those wells could have, since their reproduction is high, been a free and big source of governmental income if they were developed and managed correctly. Certainly no current imported bottle water can compare in neither taste nor quality.
No, this is neither sentimental musing nor emotional writing. Herewith are truths presented with objectivity and brutal home grown, Pump Well drinking intellectual honesty.
Unfortunately it seems like the population isn’t recycling which is sad. Hoping the 700,000 bottles isn’t the total over all. Thank you to those that are being responsible and recycling!