Nearly two years after the much-maligned tipping fee was abandoned, the predicted after-effects of illegal dumping are still being felt as hundreds of volunteers heeded the Future Centre Trust’s call to Pick Up De Ting yesterday.
Illegal dumping was so bad in a number of areas that the Future Centre’s project coordinator, Ann Harding, has described its prevalence in Barbados as a pandemic.
“I am thoroughly disgusted with what we found, but on the other side I am really heartened by the people who came out and really pitched in,” she said in the wake of the morning clean-up.
Yesterday was the annual Clean Up Barbados event and the two spots of Licorish Village, My Lord’s Hill, St Michael and Blackman’s Gully, St Joseph, will be vying for the prize for the most garbage collected. They yielded tonnes of old fridges, stoves, mattresses and other bulky, rusty items. Jack-in-the-Box and Buck’s Gullies each yielded about 500 pounds of garbage. (HLE)
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