Waste Management
Beth
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08 Jul 2011
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July 07 2011 -- President James Michel has called on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to take on the responsibility of becoming ‘the guardians of sustainability of our planet’ and to reclaim the concept of sustainability in the modern world order.
“Islands are more vulnerable and more threatened today than they have ever been in their history. We all know that for islands, the spectre of climate change is existential. Even those that will not be completely engulfed by...
Beth
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28 Jun 2011
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The United Nations and its partners this week launched a 20-year, $200 million environmental recovery programme in south-west Haiti that aims to benefit more than 200,000 people and show that sustainable rural development, from fisheries to tourism, is indeed practical.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
By UN News
The United Nations and its partners this week launched a 20-year, $200 million environmental recovery programme in south-west Haiti that aims to benefit more than 200,000 people and...
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...
