What are the incentives or tax concessions for recycling? The Government must be responsive to the public need, and seems to have forgotten that the Beverage Containers Bill written some 20 years ago, is lying on their shelves collecting cobweb and dust. Has our Attorney General forgotten us? This Government gave us the Green Fund and today numerous activities benefit.
By encouraging the recycling of plastic containers phenomenal amounts of energy is saved, as well as recreating the use of the plastic, rather than discharging it into a delicate environment where it will leach and poison our ecosystems for generations to come. By encouraging the recycling of glass for instance, the quantity of silica required is minimised, thereby saving our water aquifers from unnecessary and excessive quarrying.
The Beverage Containers Bill and incentives for new entities to enter into the recycling markets will play a major role in creating tens of thousands of green jobs for T&T.
Please Mrs Persad-Bissessar, the Beverage Containers bill has been left to rot on the EMA's shelves and there are no incentives for recycling paper, cardboard, glass or plastic and there should be. It is your privileged duty that you should ensure there are recycling incentives as well as lay this Beverage Containers Bill in Parliament, and at all costs you should pass this bill before the end of this term. Failing to do this will send a sorry signal to all of us that your interest in the environment has been merely cosmetic and superficial.
Gary Aboud
Corporate Secretary, FFOS