{"id":26143,"date":"2025-02-08T20:25:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26143"},"modified":"2025-02-08T20:25:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:25:58","slug":"government-to-expand-landfill-sites-establish-recycling-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/government-to-expand-landfill-sites-establish-recycling-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to Expand Landfill Sites, Establish Recycling Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Saskia Warrick | January 3, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development has announced plans to develop additional landfill sites and establish a recycling facility as part of a nationwide effort to improve solid waste management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New landfill sites are being developed in Regions 2, 5, and 7 to address improper garbage disposal and enhance the country\u2019s environmental sustainability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, there are 13 landfill sites nationwide, with over $809 million spent last year on their maintenance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative aligns with President Irfaan Ali\u2019s strategy for improved waste management, according to Local Government Minister Sonia Parag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister within the Ministry, Anand Persaud, noted that targeted interventions have already led to visible improvements in cleanliness in Regions 2, 3, 5, and 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the Ministry is in the process of developing a recycling facility at the Haags Bosch landfill site, which will focus on processing plastic waste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This facility aims to reduce pollution and support environmental conservation efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past four years, the government has invested more than $4 billion in solid waste management to create a cleaner and healthier environment across Guyana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia Warrick | January 3, 2025 The Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development has announced plans to develop additional landfill sites and establish a recycling facility as part&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26144,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26143\/revisions\/26144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}