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Mar 09, 2015 News
– More than a year after approval
As a proposed recycling plant remains non-existent more than a year after it was approved, Mayor Hamilton Green has blamed the plant’s stagnation on Acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba.
In an interview with Kaieteur News, Green confirmed that a recycling plant had been approved by the Mayor and City Council (MCC) sometime in 2013. Initially, Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Greene had made the announcement and had said that two corporations had been given approval by the MCC to operate recycling plants.
Green said that he was only aware of one approval, given to Cevon’s Waste Management. He added that the decision was taken by the Council following the necessity of more recycling plants in a country where solid waste management remains a huge problem. He also said the decision came after technical advice had been sought.
Green said that a plot was identified by the waste management company in the Le Repentir Cemetery. He said he could not recall whether permission was given for the specific site but he noted that the proposed site had been identified.
However, he said, although the application for the recycling plant had been approved by the M&CC, the company was yet to be officially told of the decision. Green explained that this decision could only be communicated by the Town Clerk but was yet to be done.
“Consistent with the madness that is going on, the Town Clerk has not yet checked the document to approve the application…she has to write them (Cevon’s) and indicate the approval but this has not been done,” Green said. He added that if a decision is approved by the Council, it should be relayed within a week.
He further said that meetings had been called to discuss a number of issues, including the proposed recycling plant and other waste management strategies. However, Green said all of these meetings would be aborted by Sooba.
Green believes that the waste management company is “fed up” with Sooba. He said too that he was unaware of any other firms trying to set up recycling plants in Guyana, though it was becoming universally accepted.
“The fact is that every decision made by the Council is being aborted by Ms. Sooba,” Green said.
He continued, “It has reached the point where she has been frustrating the hosting of meetings. If you can’t have a meeting, you can’t have decisions…its madness. Absolute madness supported by the government.”
He added that Sooba had frustrated other areas, including the collection of garbage in Georgetown. “She has been acting as an imperial dictator…we’re just hoping and praying for May 11,” he said.
In 2013, the Government of Guyana had indicated its interest in having a local recycling plant for solid waste and subsequently advertised for suitable candidates. The project had been proposed as a public/private partnership agreement and would have been the first recycling plant created under the Government of Guyana.
Another recycling plant, the Tetra Pak Recycling Plant, was commissioned last year by Caribbean Container Incorporated (CCI). This plant was created to broaden CCI’s capacity to recycle corrugated cardboard.
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