AS Government pushes ahead with its debushing programme aimed at cleaning up overgrown areas and roadways across the island, consideration should be given to some type of recycling project, which could stem from the process.
Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth, Stephen Lashley, made this suggestion recently, noting that persons in the agricultural sector in particular, could benefit from such a project.
“Rather than dumping the grass, bush or trees, we should be finding creative ways of recycling this material,” the Christ Church West Central Member of Parliament commented.
“I know that for example persons in the agricultural field have been looking at ways in which you could transform this material into animal feed of various kinds and I think that this is perhaps an opportunity for some kind of entrepreneurial focus, in terms of how we can actually utilise all of the material that would come out of this debushing programme, rather than (simply) dumping it,” Lashley further pointed out.
“We can find a useful mechanism of recycling material that comes out of this debushing programme,” he stressed.
Lashley meanwhile has welcomed the debushing programme, noting that there are some overgrown lots in his constituency, which some land owners have neglected to clean up, and as in other areas, he said, this could lead to a public health issue.
“The Government continues to be focused on ensuring that we can control some of the prevailing issues, in terms of the mosquito-borne diseases as well as the whole question of rodent control. This programme of course is aimed not only at ensuring that we can tidy up our neighbourhoods, but also creating very much needed employment for those persons involved in the programme. So to that extent it can only be hailed as welcome,” Lashley said. (RSM)
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