Government to build plant to deal with environmental waste

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados government it intends to construct a plant that will convert waste, including those generated from visiting ships into energy.
“In the area of environmental protection, Barbados has already taking the lead with respect to our aggressive attempt to going after the green economy and a key aspect of that is the whole waste to energy component and having a waste to energy plant that could generate as much as 50 megawatts and that in fact would also call for ships’ waste to be converted into energy,” said Tourism and International Transport Minister, Richard Sealy.
Speaking at the launch of the weeklong celebrations commemorating World Maritime Day on Sunday, Sealy said that the plant would adhere to the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas which governs the regional integration movement, CARICOM.