National Solid Waste Management Authority

Business View Caribbean 5 the responsibility to ensure that the waste is collected, stored, transported, re-cycled, re-used, or disposed of in an environmentally sound manner and to promote safety standards in relation to such waste. The third re- sponsibility we have is to promote public awareness of the importance of efficient solid waste management and to foster understanding of its importance to the conservation, protection, and proper use of the envi- ronment.” While the NSWMA’s mandate is for the collection and disposal of domestic, public waste, Pryce explains that the Authority also has some degree of responsibility for commercial waste, as well. “Because this is a busi- ness opportunity,” he says, “there are private contrac- tors with established contracts with individual com- mercial entities for the collection of their waste. We have regulatory responsibility where that is concerned. Our enforcement team will go and check on the com- mercial entities to see that they are disposing of their commercial waste in a proper manner, and, if not, we have the law to ticket or prosecute them.” Pryce goes on to describe - with military precision - the Authority’s four sub-entities, which are geographically spread across the country: “There’s the Metropoli- tan Parks and Market Waste Management, Ltd.; that company has waste management responsibility for the parishes of St. Catherine, St. Thomas, Kingston, Clarendon, and St. Andrew. The next company is the Southern Parks and Market Waste Management, Ltd.; that company has solid waste management responsi- bility for Manchester, and St. Elizabeth. Then you have the Northeastern Parks and Market Waste Manage- ment, Ltd.; that has waste management responsibility for the parishes of Portland, St. Anne, and St. Mary. Finally, you have the Western Parks and Market Waste Management, Ltd.; and that company has waste man- C M Y CM MY CY CMY K 16-SLJ-104_millenials male_3.85x4.85_final.pdf 1 4/7/16 3:26 PM