Announcement:
A ReCaribe Conference
will not be
offered in 2009
Please
contact ReCaribe by e-mailing to the following: ReCaribe c/o Clean Islands
ReCaribe: The Wider Caribbean Solid Waste and Recycling Alliance
History: The solid waste management situation
in the Caribbean has been tackled in the past by individual countries with
assistance from the Pan American Health Organization and other international
agencies. Despite these national efforts
there has been limited progress.
Regional efforts have mainly been administered through organizations
such as the Caribbean Environmental Health Institute in St. Lucia. During the past two decades, several attempts
to develop an association of solid waste professionals in the Caribbean were
unsuccessful. A growing interest in both
the public and private sectors on solid waste and recycling issues resulted in
the formation of ReCaribe.
ReCaribe: Re (for recycling) and Caribe (for
the wider Caribbean) is the acronym for the Wider Caribbean Solid Waste and
Recycling Alliance. ReCaribe which was
established by resolution at Clean Islands International’s 1995 Caribbean Waste
Management Conference, (Puerto Rico, November 1995) in which professionals from
the Caribbean and North America participated.
Established as the Wider Caribbean Waste Reduction and Recycling
Alliance, the name was revised in May 199 to the Wider Caribbean Solid Waste and
Recycling Alliance to reflect the desire of the ReCaribe’98 delegates to
increase efforts to address solid waste issues in the region.
ReCaribe is an alliance of individuals,
organizations, representatives of industry and governments dedicated to
improving solid waste management practices through education and the use and
adaption of appropriate technology and methodology in the Wider Caribbean
region.
Objectives include:
- to
facilitate the sharing of information and the transfer of technology in
dealing with solid waste management problems in the wider Caribbean
region,
- to promote
public and private partnerships in developing solid waste management
projects,
- to develop a
network for collaboration and coordination in the planning and
implementation
- and to
provide expert consultancy services in solid waste management, especially
in such areas as public education, personnel training and conference
coordination.
For membership information in the
Wider Caribbean Solid Waste and Recycling Alliance
please contact us by e-mail:
or contact:
Clean Islands International
8219 Elvaton Drive
Pasadena, Maryland USA 21122
Tel: 410-647-2500
ReCaribe is administered by
Clean Islands International
Randy Brown, Executive Director
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