RECYCLE MORE

Sanitation Service Authority’s (SSA) Public Relations Officer, Carl Padmore, is encouraging Barbadians to recycle more items rather than placing everything in the trash for collection.

He said such a move would result in less waste going to the landfill. His comments came while speaking to the press at a site in Walronds, Christ Church where illegal dumping occurred.

“We prefer as well, especially during this COVID time, that persons get into recycling, separation at source [and] building compost; it is easier. The earth wants the compost [and] when plants break down and trees break down, it has the nutrients that can

be ploughed back into the ground. Instead of bringing your manure from your fowl farm, you can ask a farmer if he wants it so that he can plough it back in. Again, man, animal and plants – we all work together, we depend on each other and if we really love our country, we will look at that.”

Padmore also said last month there was an increase in the amount of bulk waste collected by the SSA in districts across the island. He said through more individuals practising recycling, this could be reduced.

“December somehow a button goes off in people’s heads that says everything in the house has to go out, and something new got to come in. But when the thing comes out that is old, the place for it is the landfill… Why don’t we recycle things anymore? That old tyre can still go into a garden. The chair can go to an old joiner and they can still do it, but instead we just pelt it anywhere.”

He continued, “So between December and now, we have seen an increase in it and people do it every December. Not that we didn’t have some throughout the year, but once December steps in, you would be surprised [and] the hotline operations can tell you how much calls they would have received between November 30th and even last week for bulk waste.”

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