WESTERN BUREAU:
OVER 40 community groups in St. James, as well as private and public sector agencies, will be meeting today to discuss ways to tackle the worrying garbage disposal problems in the resort city of Montego Bay. The discussions are expected to run over two days.
The Montego Bay Marine Park, which is spearheading the sessions, said the two-day workshop is aimed at creating liaisons between the various groups, on the matter of reducing and recycling garbage in the tourist capital.
"We want to work our solutions for dealing with inland pollutants, because they are clogging the drains and gullies in and around Montego Bay and are ending up in the Marine Park," Jill Williams, executive director of the Montego Bay Marine Park explained to The Gleaner. "We think partnering between the groups will cause us to pursue more practical solutions."
Ms. Williams noted that 57 per cent of the garbage generated by Jamaicans is recyclable and it "would put less burden on our solid waste collection system as well as gullies and drains, if communities were committed to ways of reducing and recycling their waste."
