Ministry of Health & The Environment Headquarters — at Lower High St, St John’s Antigua.
Source- Real News Antigua: The Ministry of Health is accused of owing a number of residents for plastic water bottles they collected and turned in under its “PlasticWaste-Free Island” initiative.
The recycling programme was launched on July 7, 2021, with theMinistry of Health boasting that, after two weeks, it had collectedover 26,0000 PET code (1) plastic soda and water bottles.
The object of the initiative was to fight plastic pollution and toensure that Antigua and Barbuda reduces its carbon footprint byrecycling plastic bottles; and those taking part were promised 20cents per bottle.
However, one participant is complaining that she has not been paidsince July last year.
The woman – who says this situation is not fair – claims she has kepta record of the number of bottles she turned in at a drop-off site.She says she is not the only person affected: She has hadconversations with other residents who took part in the initiative,and they also complain they have not been paid since July 2023.
Allegedly, some people are owed several hundred dollars, and thedisgruntled woman says she needs her money to pay her utilities.Critics say that, if true, this will be yet another black mark againstthe Ministry of Health, which has been falling short of publicexpectation for quite a while now.
Its recycling initiative was held under the tagline “Giving New Life toYour Trash,” and the bottles collected were expected to be processedat ABWREC and exported to a recycling plant in Mexico.
Officials had said that, following this, the bottles would beprocessed, converting them back into raw material to be used fornew containers.
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