St. Maarten Private Eye

I commend Theo for making those frank remarks in the SMN news article. And I am happy to see that he is speaking about recycling and composting and not about an incinerator as Roy was so adamant about. St.Maarten can pull off the recycling and composting venture as long as everyone and every stakeholder is involved and educated. The fees for garbage processing must be afordable for every household and somehow added to a utility bill so that every household is bound to pay.
I am hereby offering to the Commissioner of Environment/ROB/VROM/Public Works, the support of the Sint Maarten PRIDE foundation. PRIDE can help educate the school students, youth groups and the community at large about the benefits of recycling and composting.
The foundation has been educating students about waste matters and anti-littering since it's inception in 2000.
This issue needs serious and fast thinking, evaluations, and policy writings and in my opinion a two year community educational process (community will need to be constantly educated as well) in a hurry and we know that anything done by government is never in a hurry. For this issue we will need all hands on deck and fast if we are to beat the capacity deadline of Mount Dump.