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During the month of August, 6-year-old Ky’Resha Hodge worked with her family and friends to collect about 79,000 plastic bottles, 58,000 glass bottles, and 7,000 aluminium cans for recycling. For …
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Yet again, a fire has shut down the Pockwood Pond incinerator. Yet again, the resulting trash buildup will inevitably cause fires at the nearby landfill, and toxic smoke will blow …
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Raindrops cascaded over lush vegetable gardens and several large garbage bins filled to the brim with empty glass bottles on Feb. 4 at The Valley, Virgin Gorda eco-park while Green …
A walk to the Green VI recycling site in Paraquita Bay leads to stacks upon stacks of cubes made up of compressed plastic water bottles — a particular thorn in …
Leaders recently commended the territory’s WE RECYCLE programme, which they said diverted an estimated 3,328 tonnes of recyclable materials from the incinerator and landfill to two established recycling centres. “This …
As both house-to-house and communal-bin garbage collection continue, plans to launch a national waste management programme are resuming after being delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic, Health and Social Development Minister …
Throughout the lockdown, government ministers repeatedly encouraged residents to rinse, separate and store their recyclable items so they could be collected and processed once the curfew was lifted. The curfew …
Health and Social Development Minister Carvin Malone signed a memorandum of understanding with the non-profit organisation Green VI to implement a territory-wide recycling system, according to a press release issued …
Abigail O’Neal is looking to a peculiar ally in the fight to make the territory more waste efficient and food secure: worms. The managing director of Green Technology (BVI) Limited, …
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Hundreds of people celebrated Earth Day this weekend in Road Town at the Queen Elizabeth II Park. Adults and children alike helped design a non-toxic, washable mural along the shoreline …
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SPECIAL REPORT Last fall, government was faced with a seemingly insurmountable task: disposing of unprecedented mountains of garbage left over from Hurricane Irma. But officials did not launch a tender …
Continue reading “Government’s pick to clean up VI? An unlicensed firm tied to $500k lawsuit”
