St. Maarten Private Eye

Thanks R for helping out in this situation.
I know that Trinidad and Curacao has a glass recycling plant.
I had spoken to Marcel Gumbs about this some time ago, but I have not heard anything for some time now.
However, keep in mind that most glass recycling companies prefer clear glass and since Heineken is a green bottle remains to be seen which company will want to reuse it.
TING is now canned, I prefered it when it was bottled in green bottles that were previous Heineken bottles.
Customers can still find TING in a green bottle, but a closer look shows that the bottle is not from recycled Heineken bottles.
I still believe that a refund/deposit system will work for Heineken. Presidente and Carib on St.Maarten.
PRIDE picks up these beer bottles as the most littered bottles on Mullet Bay Beach.
I myself walked the boardwalk/Promenade on January 1, at 6:30am before the cleanup crew got to work with cleaning the beach and the boardwalk.
I will tell you that the beach was littered with Heinken empty beer bottles, doubling the Presidente and Carib bottle litter.
I would like to see the amount of Heineken that is imported just for the Heineken regatta alone, and then I would like everyone to think where these bottles will end up -at the landfill ofcourse.
I am sure Heineken, Carib and Presidente can help the environment with a refund/deposit system and by taking some direct responsibilty for getting rid of the empty bottles.
There is no need to wait on government, beer importers can show us that they care as well for the island and not only about selling to the consumer and their responsibilty ends there.
I am sure that the first beer importer that starts with a reuse/recycle sysem will become the beer of choice for many, as visitors and concious locals will feel good about buying the product.