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.

What to do with your plastics on 27 June 2010 and beyond

Dear All,

Please note that Recycling in Motion will be accepting plastics collected during Trinidad & Tobago's national clean up on 27 June.

Please bring all plastic to R.I.M. at 6 Maingot Road, Champs Fleurs
Sunday 27th June from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Weekdays at regular business hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Kindly put plastics into clear plastic bags, available from Rotoplastics; 674-8265 or Rope Works in Arima 642-1575. If for some reason you cannot acquire clear garbage bags in time for Sunday and must use regular black garbage bags, please ensure that they contain ONLY plastic and no other waste material.

Recycling in Motion accepts plastics 1 - 7 (including plastic shopping bags, styrofoam cups and plates, bottles for cleaning products, shampoo, yoghurt containers, toothpaste and cosmetic tubes, oven-ready meal trays, etc).

Recycling in Motion:
1. See map for directions
2. Telephone: 789-7945

Please circulate this as widely as possible via email, Facebook and your other social media networks, so that those involved in the clean up know of this option. This way we avoid the plastics going into the landfill.

Thank you.

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.

Source of article

What's new?

Crab in hole at Maracas Bay

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Greetings Dear Members,

Even though Greenlight Network has not been as visible as usual (like a crab in a hole) ... we have been very present. You will be happy to know that we have continued working behind the scenes, putting various things in place to enable the strengthening of our organisation and the refinement of the services we offer to our country and the world - in the name of healing our inner and outer environments.

Those who know the philosophy behind Power Animals will understand that the living creatures around us are highly symbolic. The crab (which as you will have figured out by now is our visual symbol for this particular blog post) brings a most fitting message for Greenlight Network.

(Extracted from this source):

The crab uses all of its senses to survive. Its body movements as well as its excellent sight, smell, taste and hearing assist it in reaching its desired destination. They are skillful in everything that they do. Crabs teach us how to empower ourselves on all levels, perfecting, refining, awakening and expanding our own perceptions.

... The crab shows you how to develop and refine all aspects of yourself. It only requires that you open your heart to its wisdom and be willing to follow its instructions. In so doing, personal power is your for the asking.

Below are some examples of how have we been empowering ourselves (and others) on all levels, perfecting, refining, awakening and expanding over the past few months:

LAST QUARTER 2008: Funds raised at our successful annual fundraising concert - Green Carpet - were donated to WORC (Wildlife Orphanage and Rehabilitation Centre). This donation enabled continued work in the area of local wildlife rescue and rehabilitation.

MAY 2009: Greenlight Network organised a Beach Cleanup for the Red Earth Festival 2009, successfully collecting plastics and other waste from the Chaguaramas area. Collected plastics are carried to Recycling in Motion in Aranguez, to be crushed and/or chipped for export (recycling).

HEALTH CARE NOW 2009: Greenlight Network has been dedicated to bringing free health care to various communities throughout the country - offering testing of cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure and medical advice. So far thrilled residents of Arima, Aranguez, Curepe, Bamboo Village and Debe have benefited from this service.

ONGOING 2009: Our much needed Plastikeep project (which focuses on recycling of plastics) goes from strength to strength. We have been working diligently on our application process to secure the necessary funding (the Green Fund) to enable the manifestation of our plans. More on this exciting venture will be shared with you shortly!

Stay tuned ... and feel free to make use of the comments section of our blog. Ask questions, make suggestions, let us know what you and yours have been doing to help and heal the world in and around you.

The Plastic Bottle Collection and Recycling Project.

Dear Greenlights ... "The Plastic Bottle Collection and Recycling Project" is quite longwinded, so when Glen and I met this morning, we gave it a simpler name: R.E.B.I.R.T.H.

Recycling
Environment
Beauty
Innovation
Responsibility
Truth
Healing

Please jot the following vital information in your diaries.

Date of clean up: Saturday 6th May 2006

Meeting Point: Grand Bazaar, outside of X-tra Foods Supermarket (to go down to location in convoy or in car pools - Imbert would love that)

Assembly time at Grand Bazaar: 7:00 a.m. We can leave some cars there and car pool to go down. Those who don’t have cars can meet at Glen’s house (21 Lyndon Street, Curepe) between 6 – 6:30 a.m. sharp. Any later than that and we will be gone.

Location of clean up: Mangrove area near Felicity cremation site, Chaguanas, Trinidad

Everyone please be on time. The earlier we start, the better (and cooler).

What you need to bring:
Insect repellent
A cap, hat, sunscreen
Bottle of water for drinking
Something simple for lunch

What to wear
Long pants and sneakers

What will be provided
Long gloves
Garbage bags
Soap

Clean up start time: 8:00 a.m.
Break: when you are tired, rest. When rested, return
Finish time:
(i) optional (stop when you can do no more)
(ii) 2 p.m.

Each of our projects will be documented in video and photographs. I have been allocated as the documentor for this initial stage of the mangrove project (photo & video). Documentation will be used for marketing, funding and educational purposes.

We have a creative team with us. Subsequent documentation can be undertaken by Fay or by Liam, Rianna and Anika (Youth Arm).

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Click here to see the names of R.E.B.I.R.T.H. project volunteers. Final names will be confirmed at our meeting on Tuesday 25th April, 2006.

Mangrove cleanup project

Dear Greenlights,

We are making progress in our plans for the collection and recycling of plastic bottles (from the mangrove, in the first instance). A few of you have already signed up for the mission.

Those who have attended recent Greenlight meetings will know that Glen, project co-ordinator for this venture, has made contact with Recycling in Motion – the company in San Juan which has agreed to chip or crush the bottles we collect and export the chipped/crushed plastic to global recycling companies.

The time frame for the first (volunteer) clean-up has been pinpointed as

the weekend of 6th and 7th of May, 2006.

A proposal has been written, to send to companies for funding the project.

This image shows a shameful carpet of plastic bottles choking the mangrove in Felicity, Chaguanas. Come on, humans! You know what bins are ... or do you?

Those interested in volunteering to assist with the clean up just have to e-mail us and indicate their commitment. Come and get your hands dirty (or rather, get your gloves dirty) and bring some relief to the mangrove in the Felicity, Chaguanas area.

This is not what mangrove areas were made for.