that we have on the landfill that we can’t do very much with. And that is tires.” The solution involves using the Authority’s accumulated tire stockpiles in mechanical concrete for road surfacing, addressing both infrastructure needs and waste disposal challenges simultaneously. “We have piles and piles and thousands of tires, and we shred them and use them as intermediate cover, but now he has come up with this whole idea of mechanical concrete and we’ll be using some of those tires to surface the road,” Raynold explains. Beyond engineering innovations, the Authority is reviving successful community programs that had ended due to project funding cycles.The new plastics collection initiative builds on the earlier RePLAST project, which had established popular collection depots in northern communities. “There was this project, but we didn’t play a major role, but they had set up those pop-up depots and people were bringing their plastics and were very excited to do so,” Raynold notes. “Through the community and schools’ plastic collection initiative, we will provide that continuity.” LEADERSHIP, TALENT, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHALLENGES Recruiting qualified staff for waste management positions comes with unexpected difficulties in a 55 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 12, ISSUE 08 ST. LUCIA SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY
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