Plastikeep People (new video)

In this 5 minute feature, three families (mother & daughter, granny & grandson, mother & son) show us how & why they keep their plastics and dispose of them the Plastikeep way.

Help keep Trinidad and Tobago free of plastic. Reduce, reuse, recycle.

Visit http://plastikeep.com for more information.

Guide to collecting plastic for recycling

Those living in Diego Martin are in the target area for our plastic recovery pilot project, Plastikeep. We have set up Plastikeep bins in specific locations so that you can deposit plastics collected at home. For more information on locations and the collection process, please contact Plastikeep's Project Manager Rosanna Farmer at 384-2079 or email info@plastikeep.com

For those who live East and South of POS, please read below.

PREPARE YOUR PLASTICS FOR COLLECTION
WHAT TO DO

1. KEEP YOUR PLASTIC OUT OF YOUR REGULAR GARBAGE


Plastic bottles, plastic containers, plates, utensils and even plastic shopping bags can be recycled. Use a clear garbage bag (available from Rotoplastics; 674-8265), other transparent bag or a container of your choice to collect plastics separately from your other household waste.

2. REMOVE CAPS AND COVERS

A bottle and its cap are made of different types of plastic. Your separation of caps from bottles saves processing time at the plastic sorting facility.

3. RINSE

A quick rinse of your plastics to remove remainders of food helps to prevent germ and pest infestation. Dirty plastic cannot be processed, and will end up at the dump.

4. CRUSH


Please help increase the efficiency of waste collection by crushing bottles and containers before disposal. Bins will hold four times more crushed than uncrushed containers.

5. BRING IT


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FOR THOSE LIVING EAST OF POS
Please take your plastics to RECYCLING IN MOTION- 6 Maingot Street, Champs Fleurs (call for details and directions: 678-6786). OR if you have a large volume of plastic bags (e.g. you and your neighbours have been collecting), call RIM and they will collect.

N.B. They will only collect plastics stored in the clear garbage bags. They need to ensure that only plastics are contained in the bags.

THOSE LIVING SOUTH OF POS
Please contact Piranha Plastics for collection and details on the kinds of plastic they collect.

Please help to educate by spreading this information to your friends, co-workers, neighbourhood schools and businesses.

Logo and launch for Plastikeep

Introducing the official logo of Plastikeep, the plastic recovery pilot project for which Greenlight Network received financial support from the Green Fund in March 2010. Inherent in the logo is the power of communities coming together to ensure that our plastic waste is properly and continually disposed of for recycling purposes.

Plastikeep will officially be launched on Thursday 13th May at the Hyatt Regency. Under the guidance of Project Manager Rosanna Farmer and her team, the project will educate and encourage residents, schools and businesses in the Diego Martin area on adequate methods of collecting their plastic waste in specially provided clear plastic bags. These bags will be deposited in strategically placed Plastikeep bins, collected twice weekly by Plastikeep trucks and transported to a plastic sorting facility to be chipped and/or crushed and exported for recycling.

The entire collection process will be monitored so that we can be accountable for the project's outcome.

Greenlight gets Green Fund $upport for Plastic Recycling

Planning Housing and the Environment Minister Emily Dick-Forde, right, chats with the first recipients of grants from the Green Fund yesterday. At left are president of the Greenlight Network Elspeth Duncan and managing director, Fondes Amandes Community Reafforestation Project, Akilah Jaramongi. Photo: Karla Ramoo

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Green Fund $$ for 2 projects

After several years of existence, Government distributed yesterday more than $2.7 million from the Green Fund to two community organisations. Planning, Housing and Development Minister Dr Emily Dick-Forde presented cheques totalling $1,914,806 and $852,281 to Fondes Amandes Community Group and Greenlight Network, respectively, for two projects. Fondes Amandes will use the money to continue its reafforestation initiative in the Fondes Amandes watershed in St Ann’s.

The funding is to complete the project within WASA’s lands in the watershed, upgrading infrastructure of the facilities on the site and to continue outreach/educational activities. And the Greenlight Network’s will use its funds to undertake a plastic recycling initiative. It’s the first project of the kind being undertaken in T&T. Citizens will be able to dispose of their household plastic waste in a manner that will ensure protection of the environment.

Dick-Forde, in addressing the ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, on Wrightson Road, Port-of-Spain, said legislation was expected to be amended shortly to allow a larger number of community groups to apply for grants under the Green Fund, which was established in 2004. The fund provides grants to community groups and organisations for projects such as environmental conservation, reafforestation or remediation.

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