Government is looking for an alternative waste disposal site to the overflowing Mangrove Landfill in Vaucluse, St Thomas.
Minister of Environment and National Beautification Trevor Prescod made the announcement while speaking to the media at the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) as two new garbage trucks hit the road this morning. He revealed that the landfill’s “working life” had another three to four years.
Prescod stated that Government was currently in the process of looking for alternatives. He disclosed that the
operation of the landfill was $2 million monthly and the Government has been working on reducing the sum by more than 50 per cent.
“We have plans for waste and energy approaches and we are talking to a number of private institutions about how we can use what we call waste in order to reduce energy costs and those operations,” the minister responsible for environment said at the press briefing.
Broaching the subject of recycling, Minister Prescod told Barbados TODAY that Government was attempting to gradually persuade and guide the public on proper separation of trash. Prescod acknowledged that it would be difficult for the SSA to lead the separation of garbage initiative considering the financial constraints the Government was experiencing and its limited fleet available for garbage collection.
“Although we recognize the importance of separating the garbage at source, we are not in a position to make that mandatory at this point but we will use some form of persuasion to cause the general public to prepare themselves for the general changes so that we will have more than one bin at each house,” said the minister.
“It is a bit burdensome to introduce at this specific time,” he admitted.
While noting that his ministry will continue the National Clean-up and Beautification Campaign which begun in July 2018, Prescod hinted that when the Government was in a better position the state might move towards mandatory recycling.
“If we require Barbadians to have even one bin at each household at this time it is going to be difficult. . . . When we are in a better position the state will contribute towards the transition. The state might contribute to making these bins available at a national level,” he commented.
General manager of the SSA, Janice Jones added that public education and changing the habits of locals were necessary for change to occur.
“We need to get each householder in Barbados to be aware that garbage is their responsibility to a point and to ensure that they do what is necessary to reduce what they put into the garbage bins,” she said.
How about looking at some real household recycling?
@,Jennifer ,hail, hail that’s good for starters.. But there is serious technology we must deploy to get rid of the land fill ideas, that’s old behavior , we have gotten too follow fashion, we must learn to do the best for our selves…Technology , technology……..
Back to Greenland again? you know very well the environmentalist will not allow it.
“…. two new garbage trucks hit the road “””
WHAT A JOKE!!!
Barbados needs 35 garbage trucks to properly service garbage collection in this island. The whole of Barbados, STINK, STINK, STINK, with uncollected garbage.
Bajans and businesses saddle with a MIA AMOR MOTTLEY imposed garbage tax collecting millions of dollars per month. What the hell is happening with the money??? In my neck of the woods garbage being collected every two weeks.
We are now seeing rats as big as cats in the garbage, lots of roaches, armies of ants, stray chickens dragging the uncollected garbage all over the streets.
In the run up to the elections these jokers had all the answers, every thing was going to be fix within 2 months if they won an elections they said.
@Fake news!!!!!!!Back to Greenland again? you know very well the environmentalist will not allow it.
This has not got anything to do with whether th environmentalists allow it or NOT, Greenland has always been a Bad Decision by someone, that Land up there moves too much and although there is/was a Liner put in it slippage and a twist/Tear of that liner is all that is needed to allow Drastically poisionous stuff to seep into the Acquefer, and that will only end up causing sickness and perhaps some fatalities in the General Population.
It is Too dangerous to put any Garbage sites in the Scotland District.
There is technology readily available for Burning Refuse that for every Ton of Refuse burned, the refure from that Burn will fill a Bag the size of what you get from the Peanut vendors.and with MINIMAL if any Air Pollutants.
Perhaps it could be Built in the Extreme North of the Island with the actual Furnace Built out to Sea.
Just a recommendation.
@Carson C. Cadogan!!! That’s not True, no one ever said that, and if they did say that, it would mean that Barbados is full of Fools, it took Stuart and his Merry Gand TEN Years to ruin the Country, and you are asking people to believe that the nrew Government told these Highly Educated people that they will fix everything within two Months??? Come on Man don’t be so Idiotic with your Silly Statements.
You usually do much better than this, but PLEASE Take your Dislike for the Government out of your Statements.