Prime Minister Andrew Holness was speaking at the official opening of the Naggo Head Recycling Plant in St. Catherine on Thursday.
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Prime Minister Andrew Holness
By Halshane Burke
All government entities will have to implement a plan to separate waste and facilitate recycling.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness said the move is a first step to what he termed the institutionalised separation of waste.
He said the directive will cover all ministries, agencies and departments.
"We have actually done all the work internally to implement it. But we will start the implementation at the beginning of the next fiscal year because there might be some budgetary allocations necessary. Persons would have to acquire new garbage bins for separation. They would have to identify spaces in their entities and so forth," he noted.
The Prime Minister explained that the intiative is a step towards a national regulatory platform for the separation of waste, particularly the identification and proper sequestration of plastics.
He added that the government will be supporting the public effort of being responsible in the management and disposal of waste.
The government, he said, will make a special allocation in the next budget for a public education campaign to support the proper disposal of waste, specifically plastics.
Mr. Holness was speaking at the official opening of the Naggo Head Recycling Plant in St. Catherine on Thursday.
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