Belize City has a garbage problem and the city councillor in charge
of sanitation Phillip Willoughby says he has found a businessman who can help.
Willoughby says the businessman, who shall remain nameless at this time, wants
to buy anything that’s plastic for 5 cents a pound. Ground zero for the
project is the Belize City dump. Councillor Willoughby explained the vision.
Phillip Willoughby,
“He’s looking at or requesting the accommodation to come, ask
the guys from the back, the rear of the dump, to bag anything that is plastic.
You may recall that Belize Recycling, Mr. Osborne, the first guy who came, he
was looking at the peg 1. This othe initiative includes all other plastics and
it is a work in progress.
We are looking at maybe five cents a pound. That would be equivalent to
maybe ten or twelve bottles, crates, or anything like I mentioned that is plastic.
The offset of this for the city I hope will be that we will receive bins or
drums or containers for the residents of the city to put in their garbage and
so forth as we lead towards separation rather than you have people just putting
the garbage on the street, hanging it on fence, throwing it in an ad hoc manner
versus having it in a strategic location within a container and that is what
we are leaning towards.”
Keith Swift,
“What is he going to do with the plastic?”
Phillip Willoughby,
“Well one of two things. I am assuming that these things will have
to be hammered out. Either it is for export or it will be for maybe an in house
factory that will recycle the plastics here.”
The project should start within a week.
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