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PAPIAMENTU
How to drive change
Government needs to take the lead by:
- Developing single use plastic legislation.
- Encouraging green entrepreneurship through grants, competitions and funding programmes.
- Applying sustainability criteria to any existing business support programmes in existence.
- Making sure we don’t replace one problem with another – for example, plant based bioplastics (PLA) require industrial composting facilities and a means for them to be collected separately from the businesses that use them.
Educate the public and visitors
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- Explain the issues and the benefits of changes.
- Make it easier for people to separate their plastic waste.
- Encourage innovative local solutions to reduce the need for single-use plastics.
- Educate people about which products contain plastic, such as cleaning wipes and cigarette butts.
- Ensure responsible disposal of any single-use plastics used e.g cleaning wipes.
- Support knowledge sharing initiatives between business clusters and champion success stories.
Ensure existing policies don’t counteract the plastic reduction message
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- Check that public health messaging is consistent with the message on reducing single-use plastics.
- Check if star ratings for hotels require certain single-use plastic items (e.g. miniature toiletries to be present in hotel rooms) and review these standards so that they encourage businesses to reduce single-use instead.
