THE ST MICHAEL SCHOOL NOW HAS BECOME THE LATEST RECIPIENT in the Future Centre Trust’s CoRe Network community recycling in their collection which was opened last Monday at the school.
According to project coordinator Vicky Merrick, “this is the third government school installation and I hope it will not be the last. And with the St Michael School centre we are entering a new phase by assisting Government Secondary schools to achieve their goals of creating some environmental awareness amongst the students.”
She went on to say that “we all produce waste and we can create collection points for the separated waste in areas where their routine takes them and in this case, the school and we then ask the members of the community to collect any plastics, tin and aluminium cans and glass and bring them to school – washed out and separated.”
Nicole Garofano administrative director of the Future Centre Trust, explained that “the long term assistance a project such as this will provide [benefits to] the government by reducing the amount of waste that is otherwise deposited at the SBRC Transfer Station and in turn the Mangrove Landfill in which construction is underway to build another ‘cell’ or collection space for the country’s waste.”
It is hoped that through the funding received from the Coca–Cola Foundation to build these centres and provide the basis of the education process, that more organizations will come on board and appreciate the benefits of being part of this evolution in the way municipal waste is managed in Barbados.
Witnessing the presentation were students called the “Scimentalist” who make up the science and environmental club at the school and principal Shelton Perkins.
