FACED WITH TONNES of illegally dumped appliances in a St Thomas gully, an advocate for the environment says the problem can be tackled if a registry of appliances was established and policed by the Future Centre Trust.
In addition, Future Centre director Kammie Holder said he believed waste haulers should not be paid until they proved they had delivered their cargo to the landfill or to a recycler.
Holder made the comments after he and several volunteers from the St Thomas Parish Independence Committee conceded defeat when they discovered many discarded appliances in Bucks gully last weekend.
Noting that the serial numbers on the dumped televisions, washing machines, stoves and fridges could be easily seen, he said that if Barbados had a registry of appliances, the owners could be easily traced. (HLE)
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