Question of the Day: How do you feel about the proposed $10 daily fee for business garbage collection? Is it reasonable or too low?
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$10 per trip, if they have to pick up garbage from the business 2-3 times per day, make it $20 – $30.
Answer: yes of course.
add a tax for those beach bar and restaurant whose bottles, up, etc. end up on the beach… a tax or at least an obligation to clean up.
The ABLP is a failed experiment. The garbage is paid for already by the extremely high duties and taxes, high electricity bills, no water for decades. They run the country broke now so they will be taking everything and everyone. Failed economy bad spending of government’s resources. Gaston Brown is corrupted, egocentric narcissistic, racketeering thief. The country has the worst roads forever.
Yes…they made money from the waste they produced….the restaurants…the bars…the stores. Etc.
The beers bottle and cartoons..all the shoe boxes etc and they turn out a lot of waste daily….at the end of the day
Do businesses not pay taxes like residential owners which taxes are used to pay for garbage collection? Why should businesses pay additionally for garbage collection while residential owners do not? Why the discrimination?
Yes they should because people have to pay for the items they purchase
As usual there aren’t any policy development within government to address such simple things as waste management
It’s always a knee jerk reaction to the public outcry.
This is much different from two teenage females murdered and suddenly the focus is on gangster and gangs.
The politicians get their day in the limelight about addressing the gang issue. Only for masked robberies that took place recently to continue
This fee structure of $10 per day is almost meaningless. Not only is a minuscule step in waste management and environmental protection.
It’s a costly add to government bureaucratic set up.
Rather than simple imposing a daily fee Businesses should pay based on the volume and type of waste.
Should the government have an efficient and effective recycling program waste could be separated by businesses with a large portion then recycled.
PLH has added over a million yards of on waste at the Barbuda waste site.
In any other place but Antigua and Barbuda, PLH would have been charged a dumping fee of EC$500 per yard; while the almost useless and none effective Barbuda Council looks the other way.
We go to the UN with hat in hand about global warming. When we aren’t able to manage waste in our own backyard.
@Dexter Pelle…I’m in agreement with what you’ve written.
A…the waste which most businesses create are recyclable and they MUST be encouraged to do so.
(i)…most cardboard and paper products are recyclable’s, therefore, bundling them together for collection.
(ii)…incentivise businesses such as hotels and restaurants to recycle compostable waste for farming/gardens; and, food scraps to be recycled and converted into such things as cat and dog food!
B…plastics, cans and bottles can also be recycled also if the cans are aluminium.
The Government had instituted a RECYCLING PROGRAM whereby, people were paid or supposed to be paid for collecting recyclable materials. Whatever became of this program? I hope it didn’t fall victim to COVID.
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Vere C. Edwards
@Not So Common October 12, 2024 At 7:49 pm
Please do understand the difference, residence get their garbage removed once a week and in fact should only have it out on the night before collection. And certain types of garbage are not allowed. Businesses in St. John, put their garbage out daily and I mean they put everything out in the street. I have already expressed my opinion. I believe $10.00 per day is far to little. It needs to be at least $50.00 per day.