The island is small, too small to accommodate garbage from the tourist industry, let alone their own garbage. I personally feel countries that make money off exporting goods to a country that can't recycle the containers should take the containers back (plastic bottles, glass, cardboard etc). It should be their environmental duty to keep this plastic and glass off the ground and especially out of the ocean's if they are going to make billions of dollars selling it.
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I try and do my part by only drinking red stripe in returnable bottles.
Jamaica has made great strides since I first moved here. There was absolutely no garbage pick up anywhere near Negril and burning of your garbage was the only method for disposal.
This was bad, but box lunches actually came in cardboard boxes and all the drinks came in returnable glass bottles. Then came the plastics.
The residents still had no garbage collection, so the plastic was burned as they had done in the past. The toxic smoke immediately became a health hazard. Education of the children started and played a huge part in stopping the burning of plastic.
The knowledge of the dangers of burning plastic and yet having no way to properly dispose of the plastic gave rise to the roadside plastic litter problem. Toss it on the ground and let the government deal with it became the only solution.
During the past few years, Negril and the surrounding areas now have regular garbage pick up. If you walk the road or beach you will see the garbage bins. And people are using them. In our local area not everyone has purchased a bin yet, so they use ours.
Just yesterday we noticed a lessening of the plastic bottles while the NWA was cutting the grass along Norman Manley Blvd.
Changing habits takes time. Instant solutions are generally not the best way to govern. As the old proverb says, the road to hell is paved with good intentions
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Rob, feel free to vet this organization but they have been very active on facebook organizing clean ups and creating awareness. People may even have seen their signs on the sides of the road or at bus stops, I have
https://nuhduttyupjamaica.org/
https://www.facebook.com/NuhDuttyUpJamaica/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZU...CS0UkKSc0sSLIw
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Towards eliminating 'scandal' bags
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/n...t=831&cb=false
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captain wrote: "One thing is we like "box food" a couple of times a week. Hard to get it without the "box"
Jamaica is aware of the issue and we're working on it
Cap"
I found some nice plastic clamshells for take out food that are pretty inexpensive on Amazon. Safer to carry than foam or paper boxes. Also, I have some cloth bags with built in stuff sack that fit in a pocket and unfurl to carry up to 40 lbs like a shoulder bag. I can get 8 beers or two liters of rum in them comfortably. Respect (the planet!) --Marblehead
We're all in this together and none of us is getting out alive.
Since I posted a week ago, things have been cleaned up considerably along the street and sidewalk.
If you are worried about something, do something about it. If there is nothing you can do, why worry!
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