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Sep 21, 2013 Letters

 

DEAR EDITOR
The Bag Bay Inc., established in July 2012, is once again pleading with the Administration to take a serious look at the environmental deterioration of our markets, streets and intersections, and to deal with this situation from another perspective. The garbage continues to pile up, smell, rot and decay, while our citizens continue to dwell, move about and to inhale the obnoxious fumes, which situation has apparently become the norm.
We think that our Environmental Protection Agency has much more work cut out for it in its efforts to combat illicit dumping, which to us has grown into something much more than illicit dumping.
It appears that at this point what needs to be driven home is a complete change of attitude.  Citizens need to be exposed in no uncertain terms, to the ill effects of rubbish heaps mushrooming all over the city. There should be less talk and more action.
We have the media clippings from June 2012 and onwards, in which mention was made of intentions to impose higher taxes on importers of Styrofoam and other non-biodegradable products, to give some tax breaks and other concessions to those companies and/or individuals who assist in this area by establishing and importing plant and machinery that would eventually lessen the work on the landfills. These non-biodegradable products stand out in the garbage heaps like beacons, but who cares?  They are being kicked around like footballs and move through the air like white crows.
It is a known fact that products made of plastics and Styrofoam are much cheaper than the alternative, environmentally-friendlier products, and this is a consideration that had to be factored in when prices were being fixed. Yet, with this in mind, we were still forced to reduce our prices to accommodate customers, to create and employ other promotionals like “Giveaways”, and to set off the values of these against our advertising costs.  We even use our own vehicles to make deliveries. But how much longer can we continue operating like this?
If I could at this point give two examples – a would-be customer of ours, very famous in the city for over forty years, was trying to purchase over ten thousand paper bags and bargained with us to consider what we were charging for one paper bag as against the ten dollars that they were paying for one plastic bag. We finally agreed on a figure, but when the suppliers asked for an advance payment of fifty per cent, they pretended not to understand what this meant, as even after our clarification not a single word was heard from them.  It appears that no one is willing to absorb any extra cost and have it spread over a given period of time. Another would-be customer in the financial sector asked us to transfer to them a reduced offer on purchases of a certain number of food boxes, which facility was offered to us by Caribbean Container Inc (CCI).
In a nutshell, we would be happy if monetary penalties could be imposed to arrest the importation of non-biodegradable and environmentally-unfriendly products so as to enable the three businesses mentioned to realize that their efforts at bringing about a healthier environment are also appreciated.  We at the Bag Bay Inc have read and discussed an article that appeared in last Sunday’s issue of the Kaieteur News and we now use this forum to state that we are in full support of CCI.
Nola Sinclair

 

 

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