A detailed plan for a $4 million programme that would bring recycling to all four of the main Virgin Islands and create between 20 and 50 new jobs was submitted last week by a partnership between the VI government, Green VI and the territory’s Rotary clubs.
The proposal went to the UK government’s Darwin Plus: Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund. The group could receive a response as early as March.
“We applied for two years’ worth of funds,” said Charlotte McDevitt, Green VI’s executive director. “The first year it would be Tortola and Virgin Gorda, the second year we’d add Anegada and Jost Van Dyke.”
The proposal calls for $2 million to come from Darwin Plus and the other $2 million to be raised locally or internationally, such as through a European Union grant.
Greg Massicote, acting manager of the Department of Waste Management, headed the committee that developed the plan, which the committee members feel is sustainable.
See the Jan. 17, 2013 edition for full coverage.
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