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Plastic Ban – how has it been affecting consumers?

January 22nd, 2020

It’s been a year since the Government of Jamaica instituted the law that bans the use, importation, manufacture of specific categories of single use plastic bags and plastic drinking straws. There is also a ban on the importation of expanded foam (Styrofoam). Anyone who drives past any gully across Kingston can clearly see where all [...]

Why can’t we recycle more?

May 15th, 2018

My daughter recently got an assignment that required her to make an item that could be used out of material that would normally been discarded. It was an interesting assignment and she had a lot of fun deciding on what to make and which materials to use. I started thinking why don’t we all try [...]

Are you taking care of your environment?

June 3rd, 2017

Recently I passed by a man who discarded his empty food container on the road. It pained me to think that the man passed several garbage cans but thought that the road was simply the easiest place to dump his garbage. I happens all the time as persons feel it’s someone else’s problem while we [...]