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Friday, July 4, 2025

TKR, CPL and WCPL signs recycling deal

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Sport Desk
659 days ago
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CPL’s Pete Russell

CPL’s Pete Russell

The Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL), Massy Women’s Caribbean Pre­mier League (WC­PL) and Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) cel­e­brat­ed a suc­cess­ful sign­ing part­ner­ship with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Sol­id Waste Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (SWM­COL) last week to re­cy­cle plas­tic con­tain­ers at the match­es at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain and Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do.

SWM­COL pro­vid­ed ded­i­cat­ed plas­tic re­cy­cling con­tain­ers around the sta­di­ums as well as booths set up to ed­u­cate fans on the ben­e­fits of re­cy­cling and where they can drop off their re­cy­clable waste in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In to­tal, 505 bags of re­cy­clable waste were col­lect­ed across the ten match­es in Port-of-Spain and San Fer­nan­do on Sep­tem­ber 5 and 10 re­spec­tive­ly, rep­re­sent­ing 5,088.6 pounds of re­cy­clable ma­te­ri­als that was di­vert­ed from land­fill.

Pe­te Rus­sell, CPL and WC­PL CEO, said: “It is huge­ly im­por­tant that we work with or­gan­i­sa­tions like SWM­COL to re­duce the im­pact that our tour­na­ments have on the en­vi­ron­ment. We would like to ex­press our thanks to SWM­COL for this great ini­tia­tive and we are look­ing for­ward to en­gag­ing in more of these sorts of part­ner­ships in oth­er ter­ri­to­ries.”

SWM­COL’s CEO, Sean De Souza, said: “Crick­et, es­pe­cial­ly the CPL in its cur­rent for­mat, has al­ways been the pas­sion that unites us as a re­gion—the beau­ti­ful Caribbean we call home. We are proud to as­so­ciate SWM­COL with the CPL and TKR. We had the op­por­tu­ni­ty to cel­e­brate with pride and joy while en­sur­ing the pub­lic par­tic­i­pat­ed by keep­ing the cel­e­bra­tion site clean by plac­ing their re­cy­clables in the bins pro­vid­ed. At the end of an­oth­er fan­tas­tic event, we all won.”

Paul Skin­ner, TKR gen­er­al man­ag­er, added, “The Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) have al­ways been sup­port­ive of ini­tia­tives pro­mot­ing green spaces and sus­tain­abil­i­ty and this part­ner­ship with SWM­COL is an­oth­er such ex­am­ple of our com­mit­ment. We are hap­py to have been able to con­tribute to the re­cy­cling ef­fort and would like to thank our many fans who at­tend­ed the games in Trinidad and To­ba­go for play­ing their part. Hope­ful­ly, this will con­tin­ue in their dai­ly lives.”


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