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Re: Waste Management in Saint Martin
[Re: AUCspouse]
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05/17/2018 10:42 AM
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BillandElaine
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You can be fined if you are caught using the French recycle bins.
Elaine ********************************* God Bless the broken road....
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Re: Waste Management in Saint Martin
[Re: BillandElaine]
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05/17/2018 10:49 AM
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SXMScubaman
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You can be fined if you are caught using the French recycle bins. I thought I read somewhere that the French was using the Dutch dump.
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Re: Waste Management in Saint Martin
[Re: BillandElaine]
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05/17/2018 11:02 AM
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Carol_Hill
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Sorry, you can be fined if you bring Dutch side recycles to the French side? Just want to make sure that's what you mean.
Carol Hill
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Re: Waste Management in Saint Martin
[Re: Carol_Hill]
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05/17/2018 11:44 AM
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BillandElaine
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Yes, nothing to do with the dump. The French pay for the recycling through their taxes.
Same with Dutch dump, the French cannot bring their waste, but here is obviously no monitoring or consequence, as with most else. Here in Cupecoy after Irma, we had trucks from French side bringing their debris and dumping it across the street from us. Of course, at that time here was no one to stop them.
Elaine ********************************* God Bless the broken road....
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Re: Waste Management in Saint Martin
[Re: AUCspouse]
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05/17/2018 02:04 PM
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BillandElaine
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Not a visitor, but we are all in a very tough situation. We had recycling for a couple of years, but since Irma it's impossible. Makes my want to cry.
Elaine ********************************* God Bless the broken road....
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Re: Waste Management in Saint Martin
[Re: AUCspouse]
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05/21/2018 09:51 PM
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Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 3,228 Somewhere out there
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The very sad truth is that recycling is a dying industry, China is no longer buying what they used to, so much of what we are recycling is going to landfills as there is no market for to make it worth the cost to process. That is the issue in the US, I image the processing cost is even higher in the Islands. there needs to be a push to biodegradable.
Mike
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