Waste Management
Beth
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24 Jun 2011
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Port-au-Prince – Haiti and the Dominican Republic kicked off a joint project last month to increase vegetation cover and improve living conditions for people on both sides of the countries’ shared border.
The two neighbours, sharing the island of Hispaňola, launched a four-year project, Green Border (Frontera Verde, in Spanish), to reduce high levels of natural disaster risk for local inhabitants along the border that runs through several rivers and watersheds.
Centuries...
courtney
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20 Jun 2011
SVG has relevant waste management policies and legislations. The Central Water and Sewerage Authority acts as the National Solid Waste Management Authority of SVG. The two primary sources of emissions from waste products are municipal solid waste and human waste. There are extant waste management facilities in SVG: for example, there are currently 7 solid waste disposal sites on St. Vincent and 3 managed sites operating in the Grenadines. Approximately 75% of households are equipped with soak-...
courtney
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20 Jun 2011
In St. Lucia, waste management policy and regulation addresses various specific sectors, including: biomedical waste, waste oil, ship waste, asbestos and used lead acid batteries. Traditionally, effective waste management in St Lucia has been confronted by a number of barriers. Modern, efficient collection and disposal systems for solids have been instituted in St. Lucia Since the mid 1990s. Since the same period, the country has also successfully introduced measures to upgrade liquid waste...
courtney
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20 Jun 2011
St. Kitts and Nevis adopted the Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Act in 1999. The Act provides for the regulation and control of the importation, storage, manufacture, sale, transportation, disposal and use of pesticides and toxic chemicals. The Solid Waste Management Act was passed in 2000. Solid waste disposal in the Federation is limited to two sanitary landfills at Conaree and Roundhole in St. Kitts and at Lowground and Gingerland in Nevis. A large part of the waste is buried for...
courtney
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20 Jun 2011
The rapid increase in migration of the rural population to cities in recent years has aggravated the situation of waste management in Haiti, with the elimination of solid waste being one of the major challenges facing the municipal government. Household waste and garbage in Haiti is not treated by reliable and technologically approved systems. There are no organized landfills at the national level, with waste collection generally being the responsibility of the town halls, and is carried out to...
