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Sunday, July 13, 2025

UTT plan to help LABIDCO decrease waste footprint by thousands of tonnes

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An overhead view of the La Brea Industrial Development Company Limited’s industrial estate and port facilities at Brighton, La Brea.  [Image courtesy LABIDCO via Facebook]

An overhead view of the La Brea Industrial Development Company Limited’s industrial estate and port facilities at Brighton, La Brea. [Image courtesy LABIDCO via Facebook]

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) has cre­at­ed a waste man­age­ment roadmap for the La Brea In­dus­tri­al De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (LABID­CO), which could see a re­duc­tion of its gen­er­at­ed waste by thou­sands of tonnes, an­nu­al­ly.

UTT hand­ed over the Waste Man­age­ment Plan Re­port for the La Brea In­dus­tri­al Es­tate and the Port of Brighton this week.  It is the re­sult of ten months of re­search con­duct­ed by an all-fe­male UTT team, head­ed by Dr Ejae John, As­so­ciate Pro­fes­sor, Process En­gi­neer­ing. 

Re­search team mem­bers in­clud­ed Dr Solange Kel­ly, As­so­ciate Pro­fes­sor, Util­i­ties and Sus­tain­able En­gi­neer­ing and As­sis­tant Vice Pres­i­dent, Un­der­grad­u­ate Stud­ies; Dr Mar­i­an Wat­son, As­so­ciate Pro­fes­sor, Process En­gi­neer­ing; Dr Saman­tha Chadee, As­sis­tant Pro­fes­sor, Cen­tre for Mar­itime and Ocean Stud­ies; and Suzette Balka­ran, Se­nior In­struc­tor, En­gi­neer­ing (Mar­itime Stud­ies).

L to R – UTT’s Research Team (l-r) Suzette Balkaran, Senior Instructor, Engineering (Maritime Studies); Dr Samantha Chadee, Assistant Professor, Centre for Maritime and Ocean Studies; Dr Ejae John, Associate Professor, Process Engineering; Dr Marian Watson, Associate Professor, Process Engineering; and Dr Solange Kelly, Associate Professor, Utilities and Sustainable Engineering and Assistant Vice President, Undergraduate Studies; are flanked by Professor Donnie Boodlal, LABIDCO Deputy Chairman, and Dr Vernon Paltoo, LABIDCO General Manager. [Image courtesy UTT]

L to R – UTT’s Research Team (l-r) Suzette Balkaran, Senior Instructor, Engineering (Maritime Studies); Dr Samantha Chadee, Assistant Professor, Centre for Maritime and Ocean Studies; Dr Ejae John, Associate Professor, Process Engineering; Dr Marian Watson, Associate Professor, Process Engineering; and Dr Solange Kelly, Associate Professor, Utilities and Sustainable Engineering and Assistant Vice President, Undergraduate Studies; are flanked by Professor Donnie Boodlal, LABIDCO Deputy Chairman, and Dr Vernon Paltoo, LABIDCO General Manager. [Image courtesy UTT]

UTT notes that based on con­tin­u­ous as­sess­ment of LABID­CO’s waste mat­ter, the re­port de­tails a strate­gic ap­proach to treat­ing gen­er­at­ed waste in a sus­tain­able, en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly and cost-ef­fec­tive man­ner.

“Once im­ple­ment­ed, the rec­om­men­da­tions will re­duce LABID­CO’s waste by 10,000 tonnes an­nu­al­ly,” UTT re­vealed, not­ing that the re­search project will have a pos­i­tive im­pact on LABID­CO’s day-to-day op­er­a­tions.

Re­search project lead, Dr Ejae John al­so de­tailed the po­ten­tial for far-reach­ing ben­e­fits of the study.

“To un­lock its true po­ten­tial, we need to view waste as a re­source,” she not­ed.

UTT says the project sup­ports its mis­sion of “sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment through re­search.”


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