The Caribbean Recycling Conference, Training and Exposition, May 4-8 at the Trinidad Hilton. ReCaribe is the first international affiliate chapter of the U.S. based National Recycling Coalition. The report, which examines legal and legislative issues associated with establishing new programs or expanding informal activities in five Caribbean countries, provides an opportunity for healthy discussion. Williams is one of the three Caribbean environmental professionals to author the report. Dr. Winston McCalla, of Jamaica and Judy Daniel, of Trinidad, the other authors, are environmental law professionals.
Every community has some type of recycling, reuse, or waste reduction activity.
Sometimes these activities are offered by a local community group or small business, but often recycling is very informal and unregulated. What regulations that do exist may not enforceable. The study looked at institutional, legislative frameworks, and enforcement issues in these five Caribbean countries as a way to measure what the need may be regionally. This is only one step in a long process. The above mentioned study will be presented in two panel discussions, one focused on situation analysis and the other focused on policies and strategies.