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500 scouts have joined the fight to keep Belize clean. They will be doing so through a new recycling program launched earlier this year. It is part of the World Scout Conservation and Income Generating Project. The Scout Association’s National Training Director Orlando Garcia says its mission will be two fold.

Orlando Garcia, Nat’l Training Director – Scouts
“The scouts will be involved in collecting plastic bottles, waste paper, and aluminium cans.”

Keith Swift,
“What will they do with the garbage they pick up?”

Orlando Garcia,
“The project also has another objective where the Scouts of Belize will use it as an income generating project for their scout unit. The bottles that are collected will be delivered to Bowen and Bowem, the waste paper will be delivered to Caribbean Paper Products at mile 13 who will all purchase these materials from them. Also the aluminium cans will be purchased from Caribbean Paper Products. So again our project has two major objectives; a positive step to protect our environment and also it will serve as an income generating project for the scout groups throughout the whole country.

The scouts will earn what we call the Belize Conservation Badge. The requirements for each scout in order to earn this badge, they will have to collect 500 plastic bottles, 30 pounds of waste paper, waste paper includes newspaper, magazines, exercise books, old books, etc., and thirty pounds of aluminium cans.”