The United States of America Embassy in Georgetown joined forces with students, staff, and parents from the Marian Academy to build a recycling shed at the school.
A press statement from the embassy said that from last December to this month, the team of volunteers worked together to plan, build, and paint the shed, which will allow Marian’s environmental club to store plastic bottles in the shed instead of in the school.
The bottles are later collected by Netram and Sons, and are chipped and shipped overseas for recycling.
This project is part of Guyana Shines, an initiative that encourages and mobilizes communities to maintain a clean environment to address the serious littering problem in Guyana.