Kids Links Kids Home Garbage in Jamaican Schools Walk into virtually any schoolyard in Jamaica and you will see a problem with garbage disposal. Schools generate large amounts of non-biodegradable garbage.
Students bring lunch from home in juice boxes, plastic bottles, plastic bags and the like.
Canteens sell a wide variety of packaged and bottled products and the school is left with the packages and the bottles. Schools have to pay for their garbage to be removed and many do not have the resources to do this. A common response to growing moulds of garbage is to burn them. Burning is a very bad idea. Burning of plastic and styrofoam releases many highly toxic gases.