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Nov 09, 2013 News
– Solid Waste Bill could be tabled before year end
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the Government of Guyana and a Canadian Firm to begin recycling solid waste. According to Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon, Cabinet had continued its focus on solid waste management in Guyana. Luncheon did not name the company.
He explained that regulations are intended to be drafted to incentivize the use of bio degradable bio synthetics to plastics. Luncheon further noted that the cabinet has concluded its consideration to a number one firm for solid waste.
He explained that it was an activity intended to be localized in region four, adding that the main activity will be at Haags Bosch at Eccles East Bank Demerara.
Dr. Luncheon said that the company will engage in sorting and recycling solid waste. He said that Cabinet had previously approved the region-wide solid waste programme. In that programme, Dr Luncheon said that contractors through public tender were given contracts and had them executed with the Ministry of Local Government to provide a fee to service solid waste collection from households for the disposal at registered EPA licensed landfill sites throughout the regions.
He added that the Solid Waste Management Bill is under the consideration of Cabinet. He said that there are strong expectations that the Bill be tabled before the end of 2014.
According to Dr. Luncheon, the Act seeks to establish a body that will be responsible for overseeing all of the solid waste management functions in Guyana. The body will set out certain standards that waste management companies will have to adhere to. The protection of the environment will also be embedded in the act.
Canadian Company Panther Recycling had approached government earlier this year with their proposal. President of the Panther Recycling Company, Michael Mosgrove, had told Kaieteur News that he had offered Government a $26M recycling centre complete with curbside pick-up for less than the garbage collection costs today.
The company is willing to take on this investment at no cost to Guyana, Mosgrove explained. According to Mosgrove, his company has offered the government a Bio diesel section to the facility, but was asked not to include the bio mass facility as there was a large US$800 million electric proposal on the table.
Mosgrove said that Panther Corporation has the best systems in the industry and a complete recycling programme from the house or business to the plant.
He added that they are well aware and they fully understand that the landfills are still problematic, but their biomass is the solution.
He had told Kaieteur News that the facility goes hand in hand with their recycling sort modules and takes any biomass that cannot be reused to an incinerator which creates steam and transmits electricity. Mosgrove told Kaieteur News that the system can generate upwards of 80 MW of power basically half of what has been recently rejected and would cost considerably less.
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