Quote Originally Posted by sunray View Post
food and juice cans
drink boxes, tetra paks
plastic soft drink bottles
plastic cups
empty shampoo, personal hygeine containers
plastic shopping bags
glass jars
cardboard, box board
aluminum foil
food packaging.....

If there are viable means for visitors to recycle, I am certain the vast majority, myself included, would be happy to do their part.
And it is good to know that Jamaica does have businesses that recycle things such as car batteries and toner cartridges, the more the better. The low value or negative value items are more problematic.
Recycling bins placed along the sidewalk and beach in Negril would be awesome! An opportunity for the Negril Chamber of Commerce and other stakeholders to be a leader in sustainable Jamaican tourism.
While being a "feel good" thing to do, recycling is often not what people think it is. An entire recycling bin full of plastic could be contaminated by a single person throwing a used styrofoam box lunch in with the other recyclables.

The Negril Recycling Centre, before it caught fire this past summer had to face that issue daily. The resorts would send the recyclables there first, where it was sorted and then sold to China in bulk and transported by cargo ship for processing.

Until very recently, all North American recycling was handled the same way.

"Viable means" for recycling, that is and has always been the issue world wide. From the most recent research article I could find, "...it would be hard to declare plastic recycling as anything approaching a success from an environmental perspective, with less than 10% of generation from the U.S. ..."

https://www.thebalance.com/plastic-r...igures-2877886

With all the efforts and strides made in the USA, 90% of the plastic is still not recycled.

Reducing the desire/incentive for plastics over all would be the most effective. As a visitor, purchase drinks in returnable bottles and bring down your toiletries in reusable containers that you can take home with you.

This thread has a connection to the flooding thread as the cause for the flooding (besides the heavy rains) in MoBay. A single drainage gully was blocked by litter and didn't allow the water to flow. It backed up and flooded downtown MoBay.

But the issues and solutions are being discussed in Parliament. Banning of plastic grocery bags (Lada or scandal bags), deposits on all drink bottles and heavy fines for littering.