St. Maarten Private Eye

Many years ago I lived in a community that collected garbage pick up fees by selling special garbage bags. The bags were large, bright blue and printed with the town's seal. The bags were available in all grocery and convenience stores. The price was just a little more than the standard brand black bags. The extra few dollars per box paid for the collection because the community-run garbage collectors would only pick up garbage packed in the bright blue bags.
This type of system would not be too hard to implement and could help defray current collection costs. Of course it has to go hand-in-hand with a proper recycling program - or as close to a proper one as SXM could manage.
In the meantime, where are all of those canvas grocery bags featured in the papers a couple months ago? That's a great idea but I have yet to see them available for purchase in a shop. We could make a substantial dent in the amount of garbage we produce by using those instead of those horrible plastic bags.