{"id":30471,"date":"2026-06-17T18:05:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=30471"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:05:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:05:54","slug":"guyana-advances-national-solid-waste-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-advances-national-solid-waste-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Advances National Solid Waste Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;<strong>as Experts Warn of Rising Waste Pressures<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by Celestine Chacon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Guyana moves to strengthen its waste management system, a workshop on the Development of the National Solid Waste Management Strategic Plan was convened today at the World Trade Centre in Georgetown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event brought together government stakeholders, local authorities, and private development partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The workshop is a collaborative effort between the United Nations development program and the local government ministry which aims to build a coordinated national framework for sustainable waste management in Guyana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Resident Representative of the UNDP, Kathy Thompson, reaffirmed the agency\u2019s strong support for the project, stressing that the timing is critical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She noted that rapid population growth, changing consumption patterns, and increasing environmental pressures are pushing existing waste systems beyond their capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A well-managed national solid waste management strategic plan really helps governments to move forward in a forward-looking way, and the goals of this is that once it&#8217;s done, it complements the legislative efforts, such as this solid waste management bill here in Guyana, which is being finalized, and it helps to streamline and make legislation a reality for all ordinary people,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presenting a technical overview of the proposed plan, UNDP consultant Dr. Guillermo Roman outlined the scale of Guyana\u2019s growing waste challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The first the municipal solid waste, according to this data we have for world worldometer, is about half a million ton per year, 400,000- 460,000 but the Hazardous waste it is about 1\/3 of that,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When industrial waste streams such as mining residues, agricultural by-products, and electronic waste are included, total waste generation could reach several million tons per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also identified plastic waste as a major concern, noting that global recycling rates remain very low, meaning most plastic waste is not recovered or reused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking ahead, projections indicate that waste volumes could rise significantly over the next decade, driven by population growth and the expansion of key sectors such as oil, agriculture, and mining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The expert emphasised the need for improved waste characterization, stronger landfill design standards, and better regional data collection systems to support planning and enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;as Experts Warn of Rising Waste Pressures -by Celestine Chacon As Guyana moves to strengthen its waste management system, a workshop on the Development of the National Solid Waste Management&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,350],"tags":[488,370,438,412,405],"class_list":["post-30471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infrastructural-development","category-news","tag-488","tag-guyana","tag-ministry-of-local-government-and-regional-development","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30471","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30473,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30471\/revisions\/30473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}