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[h=2]OUR WASTE GOES TO GUADELOUPE
by V.A 07/07/2020
On Friday and Saturday, a barge removed hundreds of tonnes of waste stored outside the supermarket in Saint-Jean. These are crushed bulky items (mainly construction materials, pallets) whose volumes are too large to be absorbed by the Public incineration plant. This shred taken to Guadeloupe will be buried there on a dedicated site. There 68% of the waste is buried without treatment (2016 figure), a percentage that has been falling for several years and that the Guadeloupe Region intends to drastically reduce, hence the difficulty for Saint-Barthélemy to get rid of its surplus of waste. There remain on the Saint-Jean site the equivalent of two barges like this.
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