Dart stops glass recycling citing ‘safety’ concerns
(CNS): After ten years of crushing glass and using it in construction, the islands’ biggest developer has abruptly ceased recycling, citing unspecified safety concerns and ageing equipment. A sign at the Camana Bay recycling centre erected over the weekend stating that glass would no longer be recycled caused a stir on social media.
This means that Cayman’s woefully inadequate recycling programme is about to get even smaller, as the Department of Environmental Health has said the glass will now be going straight into the dump until another solution can be found.
Dart said the glass crushing programme, which began in 2012, has diverted thousands of glass containers from the landfill and has been used in fill and concrete across the group’s many development projects. But the industrial crusher it uses is now nearing the end of its life.
“After a decade of continuous use, the glass crusher is nearing the end of its productive life cycle,” a spokesperson from the organisation told CNS. “Operations at its current location are ceasing owing to safety concerns. We are currently exploring ways in which short-term operations can resume while long-term, larger glass recycling options are integrated into ReGen, the Cayman Islands Government’s National Solid Waste Management Strategy.”
While the safety concerns have not been spelt out, speculation that it related to CUC cutting power to the crusher as a result of the new airport connector works was refuted by both the power provider and the NRA. It is understood that the power line to the machine crosses a canal but this has always been the case and has not changed due to the new road.
The DEH issued a press release Monday telling people it would no longer accept glass for recycling at the various depots and that they should put glass into their regular garbage. Up until now, the DEH collected the glass deposited at all the recycling locations and took it to Dart’s glass crushing facility.
“Over the years we have worked in partnership with Dart in the processing of glass for recycling. We want to express our gratitude to this stakeholder as we seek alternative arrangements for the recycling of glass. The DEH currently doesn’t have the facilities to carry out this processing,” explained DEH Director Richard Simms.
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If we all dropped our glass off at the old Hyatt property, it might vastly improve (colorfully) the look of the derelict property.
In Belize they collect and, get this, reuse soda and beer bottles. Absolutely ridiculous not to.
When we have a Coca Cola and Heineken bottling plant here, you may be onto something.
Stingray Brewery used to recycle bottles.
The same brewery still does. Reuse, not recycle.
Can you not see that they are just putting this on the government? The government has had warning of this for a long long time and has done nothing to sort it.
08@12:45 pm – Exactly! We’ve gone backwards in many ways in 50 years. Back in 60s Bodden Town where and when I was growing up we could trade a bottle back for a small rebate (a penny I think). Later on there was a soda bottler on Easter Ave. which used to buy back their bottles (Darts CDG building now).
Now, after 10 years of trying to get broad buy-in then cultivating active participation in bottle recycling and crushing, we must return to dumping them??
Simpky because a few Govts have been too nearsighted, lazy, inept or dependent on Dart to consider it. It’s a public service.
They can waste public $$$ on each Minister’s fad of the month, trips, chauffered rented SUVS, OfReg SUVS, etc.,etc.
Government is one if the biggest customers of tarmac and concrete, which Dart was using the crushed glass for. So why don’t they assign some funds to buy their own glasscrusher?
PACT, We can see you being blindsided by this but you can step up to the plate and fix this, now. NOT as part of the yet- unfinished ReGen deal. Don’t kick this bottle down the road!
Do the right thing now!
why not use a heavy roller and build an enclosure and keep rolling and storing the crushed glass for use by the NRA for road works, repairs etc.
Or this “greenwash” PACT regime could just allocate a drop of their frittered-away budgets to upgrade crusher and milling machines and carry on. They could even pile the glass balls and resell this material to construction at a later date, or export. Dummies.
Is there perhaps a market for glass-bottom boats used for tourism say, or for waring nations looking for their flagships, etc?
Can you see CIG trying to recycle glass? They can’t even make a dump work. Caymanians can’t do anything Dart can. That’s why they hate and need him so much.
Whoa there sunshine…CIG may be one thing. But there are a lot of very capable Caymanians in the private sector who are as good as, if not more able than their foreign counterparts!
Caymanians can’t elect ethical ministers. YES, the blame is on the electorate for the horrible direction of the country. Sorry for the reality check cowboy!
Whoa there homer …. More able?
Why don’t they step up? Will CIG respect them like they do Dart? Honest question. I think they are smart enough to not get in business deals with CIG and maybe that’s why they can’t.
From where I’m sitting, for over 20 years DART has had an unquenchable thirst for complex blank cheque exchange agreements with CIG, and they just keep on signing them. You are partially correct that these are rarely business deals for us beyond maybe a superficial quid pro quo deliverable, executed with the bare-minimum of resources and later abandoned in favour of a real objective. Dart understand that Cayman has illiterate politicians and a public with even shorter memory. The public pays twice by financing something we needed to do anyway, while also surrendering a valuable crown asset or responsibility that the dim administrators can’t competently manage. CIG can’t even competently supervise the concessions surrendered, or the preconditions that were attached.
DART isn’t selling any verifiable expertise in their bids, and lately the proposals are entirely missing. We’ve been watching them screw us for 20+ years.
It’s all the Governor’s fault for not telling Rishi to cough up for a new fully loaded glass crusher and send it along with the next batch of vaccines.
Oh I really miss the Pop Shoppe and their recycling. We seem to have gone backwards on progress.
I’ll just be dumping all my glass in the aluminum bins until DEH can get their shit sorted out.
That’s a mature response (note the dripping sarcasm).
Typical ignorant response.
I thought the same thing but then it’s likely that the whole bin will be thrown out. Time to switch to cans!
We should all just boycott Dart’s businesses then he and PACT government will finally invest in a National Recycling Plant. I think he’s using this as an excuse because of the deal he made with PPM might not have been legally approved. The man is a vulture capitalist and only cares about making money. The 3 major supermarket chains + the 3 major hardware stores which are all Caymanian owned could pay for a Recycling Center if they really care about our islands and people yet they are just like Dart. This is so sad but lets all start a petition to show the world how far behind we really are.
I’ll be boycotting all the businesses who have not provided free recycling services to the community for ten years.
Which leaves me shopping at only Foster’s and Dart owned businesses. But hey, I’ll survive.
And in one fell swoop you ignore Kirks who have substantial recycling bins on their property and have for years. DART is not our savior and neither are you.
Kirk’s allows the DEH to position the bins there, cost to them =$0 outside of that, they do nothing.
Try again.
And the glass a Kirk’s was taken to Dart. By the way … when has the Kirkconnell empire EVER done anything for the greater good of Cayman if it cost them money?
Mmmmm, not really up on all the ownership structures on the island, but I’m pretty sure Dart has stakes in at least 2 supermarkets, both major gasoline suppliers and of course the brewery.
Not saying a boycott couldn’t work, just that it might be hard to find a non-Dart business for your daily needs.
Just as the conniving Dart organization planned. Yet the majority of people when the vocal complained just told us to shut up we would be nowhere with out him.
Oh yes, the cunning plan Dart devised , crushing our glass free of charge for 10 years. And then stopping it in order to…. Man’s an evil genius.
Not really up on….
Pretty sure…
You sound like Fox News.
No money in it, and ultimately Dart is all about. . .
Not Dart’s responsibility.
Why don’t you open up a glass recycling facility? It makes absolutely no money for Dart to do it.
Kudos to him for starting to call the government on their pandering garbage.
Without Dart every homeowner on this island would lose 10% in equity minimum.
So tired of hearing everyone complain, as if they would do any better.
But Dart loves the island so much, why would he pull this service? No money in it!
caymana bay islands! lol! our ancestors would be so ashamed!
Our ancestors would be more ashamed of the unethical ministers that get re-elected term after term after term. Stupidity is entrenched here.
Except you are not stuck!
This is why I recycle with Junk.
And there was a Junk truck dumping a load of bottles and cans in the dump last week… What proof do you have of their recycling?
How do they recycle?
Where do you think they take your glass?
What were they doing with your glass? What will they do with it now? Asking for a friend.
Junk has told my condo that they will not be collecting glass anymore – of course it was going to Dart. Where else could it go!
yeah I will still use them but turns out they were able to recycle it here. the rest goes off island. sad that dart is shutting glass down.
Junk are no longer collecting glass.
So the PACT government has:
1. Found money to give themselves a pay increase (first task)
2. Found money to feed every government school kid, even if their parents were willing to continue feeding them as most of them always did.
3. Found a monthly stipend for anyone who could say the word “tourist”.
4. Found money to send Ministers and hangers-on all around the world as if Covid-19 no longer exists.
5. Found money to open up air routes to where family and friends might want to travel TO rather than where tourist might want to come FROM.
etc. etc. etc.
But after all this time they can’t find money to put a glass crusher or shredder/grinder for tree trimmings at the dump?
It must be nice to live in EnviroWaynesWorld.
Wayne’s and Dwayne’s World: Bodden Town’s finest! 🤪
Doesn’t take much to crush glass…CIG.
I was thinking that. Why not just buy a new machine? if they knew it was nearing the end of its then why not order one ahead of time. not rocket science…
But I thought the Dart family was here for us? Or is that what they and some of our world class civil servants in his Pocket keep trying to brainwash Caymanians with his mind conditioning propaganda .This is once again a subtle reminder of letting those like Dart and other private entities control certain aspects of both or economy and government responsibilities.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this whole thing is Dart putting pressure on DEH for the ReGen project or something else. The sign says to contact DEH, but the glass crusher was Dart’s? It sounds like when the owner of the land next to Smith’s Cove said he was going to sell and everyone publicly freaked out and prompted the government to buy the land.
I’m only speculating but if someone came up to me and said Dart is starting a glass recycling programme to primarily offset his concrete/construction costs and at the same time creating more favourable optics with regard to the community I wouldn’t disagree. I generally abhor what Dart has done in Cayman but on this one I’ll give them a pass, it’s not their responsibility to set up and manage an island wide recycling outfit for everyone, that should be our Govt or some privately contracted venture.
Except that they were gifted the contract (without proposal) for management of our waste.
I seem to recall many moons ago (but could be wrong) that this project was put out to tender and Dart/DECCO’s proposal accepted? Don’t get me wrong I am not a Dart fan either, just trying to be objective and fair.
It was. 8:17 is an idiot with a keyboard.
They probably found someone to buy it overseas for the same use…..
Dart is Caymanian. Don’t forget that. He’s one of your own.
You can put lipstick on a pig but….
Seek professional help.
OK, so what have ‘Generational Caymanians’ done to fix the dump and related issues? NOT A DAMN THING! Other than blaming problems on Expats, Jamaicans, Canadians, the UK, and those pesky raccoons. All the hand-wringing will not solve problems – time to grow up.
I agree that the landfill and related issues should have been fixed long ago but everyone expat and locals are responsible for the pollution. If you ever drank from a disposable container, purchase anything in a bottle or cardboard or metal container you are also responsible. This is not really a nationality thing but some do produce more garbage than others. We are all in this together.
Just making excuses for the generational ineptitude of the elected leaders of Cayman.
I remember a big headline in the Compass about 5 or 6 years ago that said the government had done 25 years of talk on the dump without doing anything. It’s more than 30 years now. What a bunch of overpaid fools – Arden, Ozzie, Joey and now Wayne.
Oh please! You didn’t really think DART was here for us though? This was the most convenient place for the group to come and dazzle the ” want to be rich and uppity” among us . They got quite a bit of our little island including rebates so we expected them to be good citizens. I guess all their roads and buildings are completed so they have no need for the crushed glass. The least they could have done was to give the DEH and wider community a few days notice. As Maya Angelou said ” when someone shows you who they are, believe them. Now DEH and Mr. Binns please have a chat with your Minister on getting our own crushing machine,
The DEH has known for years. Don’t kid yourself.
Maybe if we use all the bottles for messages to float across the world, – ‘help, we’re stuck on an Island, our Govt postures to help the environment but doesn’t do anything’ perhaps a recipient somewhere might intervene. Before you mock the idea, is anything else working ? 😐
More population more consumers ??? Stop the madness Cayman, We cannot sustain this extremely foolish notion of increasing our population. For what ? more pollution and garbage. World class Garbage.
So the DEH has had ten years to make provisions to take this on but has failed to pull their thumbs out?
#worldclass
yep CIG and DEH have done nothing… not Darts fault..
Dart were given administrative control of GT landfill…without a plan and before an agreement.
There is no landfill.
I would be interested to know when DEH was first made aware of when the equipment would need to be replaced or closed down.
Ask them , though you won’t get an honest answer.
They will now commission a report on what to do next….
Bet this isn’t the only service that get axed because our Govt failed to honor their part of the deal….
Human. Not certain a report is enough… might have to set up a committee! 😉
Stop blaming Dart for everything, do something yourself! The island of losers!
Actually, the Island is a community who all play their part, commensurate with their means and abilities.
Boy you fool.
do they?
Lol, rich Dart looking for a handout.
So we have four 737 Max 8s but we can afford a glass crusher.
We don’t need a glass crusher. Dropping it works perfectly well for present purposes.
Question – When did it become DARTS responsibility to recycle the glass? Y’all talking like they the government! How much money the government make on stamp duty, customs duty, work permits and they cant buy a glass crusher????
How much money has Dart saved on duty exemptions and waivers. Why can’t he afford to buy a new one or keep in good repair?
The administration of GT landfill rests with DART
I guess you aren’t up on current affairs- the deal still isn’t finalised, so Dart isn’t responsible for the admin of the dump.
It is not my responsibility to pick up trash on the street, but I do it all the time. Something to do with looking after my community. A responsibility I share with many.
Me too, and also on the neglected beaches around the island as I walk my dog. I was brought up that way and it’s ingrained behaviour now. We can all do our part as a community of responsible families.
@07/11/2022 at 10:20 pm – Answer – Dart contributes significantly to the amount of glass products imported to and sold in the Cayman Islands through the Dart organization’s businesses such as Blackbeard’s Liquors, Big Daddy’s Liquors and their partnership in various hotels here. In today’s world, corporations of all sizes and resources make it a part of their operating strategy to exercise a level of corporate responsibility, as being cognizant of such responsibility is not only the cultural norm in today’s society, but most often it is expected (if not demanded) by their customers and employees. No corporation wants to be called out on social media or in the mainstream media for neglecting to do their part to reduce waste and pollution, greenhouse gasses, global warming, etc.
And what do Caymanians contribute to the Cayman islands? Think first before you hate.
The government is always looking for the private sector to pay for things so that they have enough money to go on their globetrotting jollies and to basically bribe voters right before election time with free fridge, paved driveways etc. Private sector and charities have to pay for school supplies, pay for school lunches for hungry kids, pay to erect bus stops and on and on and on. When something like this happens, they gladly deflect the blame to Dart or some other private sector entity.
I am curious – why do people think it is Dart’s responsibility to deal with the entire island’s glass rubbish? And if this is such a big deal, why didn’t the DEH do it themselves for the past 40 years?
all beer and drinks in 12 oz bottles should be banned…. a shocking waste of resources and environmental damage for such a tiny amount of liquid.
switch to cans asap…..not perfect, but currently better option than glass.
Except Caybrew, they recycle the bottles if you take them back.
You’re obviously not a discerning beer drinker.
an obvious spat between dart and cig and dart making cig look 3rd world…. which is easily done.
why does cig rely on private sector for basic recycling?
Cause they are 3rd world. Just look at the MLA line up.
So many irrational whiners posting on this. It is not Dart’s responsibility to provide glass recycling to the island. They provided this service for 10 years, but they are under no obligation to purchase another piece of machinery to do this.
Get the damn ReGen deal completed.
So, with the all flap all these years about recycling and the dump in general, we are still depending on Dart to fix the garbage problem?
….and the band plays on….
Successive Governments’ Rubbish!!
Lucky for me that all my glass goes back to the Cayman Islands Brewery where it gets reused AND I get $2 off my next case. 🍻
Although this is not welcome news, the amount of money CIG has squandered on past landfill studies that highlighted their dereliction might have paid for a crusher in every district.
They just buried their heads in the sand and hoped every four years the solid waste problem would go away (burn itself away). You can blame private enterprise for actually doing something about it and then pulling the plug but CIG has owned this mess from inception.
They ought to ultimately own the long term solution, but they of course won’t.
As someone has already highlighted about the liquor stores – make it a condition of their license to sell bottled alcohol that they provide a means of ethical disposal. Big Daddy’s, Jacque Scott, Blackbeard, CDG all make enough money to club together to buy a glass crusher. Put the onus on the private sector.
Three of the four on your list are owned by Dart.
But there’s others – Tortuga. Liquor for Less, Tasting Room, etc. This is much more than just the Dart issue you want to make it. And what about all the grocery products sold in glass – should Dart deal with that instead if Kirk’s, Foster’s and Hurley’s, too? The glass rubbish in my household is mostly from the grocery stores.
And all the bars and restaurants should be forced to recycle as well. They’re already putting everything in the garbage.
This would be comical if it wasn’t such an embarrassment. The elected officials and chief-officers/directors of this island could screw up a 1 car parade!
No planning, no proactivity, no forethought.
Why does Cayman always need to be codependent and lay blame elsewhere? We cannot depend upon DART. We cannot depend upon anyone but ourselves. Our politicians need to step us in unity and protect our resources and our interests. For example, the store you purchased the glass, plastic or other vessel from and paid for, should deal with how the empties are disposed. After all, the vendor pays duty to government and if we return the vessel, we should get credit in the store. I’m just saying, or throwing that out there….
So Dart has been exclusively recycling glass on island for 10 years at no cost to the public or the government? Thank you Dart, perhaps going forward some local businesses would be willing to pick up the expense to continue this practice?
Surely you mean Government and not some local businesses?
If you were handling a glass recycling effort for free, getting the building material you actively use for free and then started an enterprise where you were being paid to manage garbage and recycling, and you could sell that building material to yourself, would it not make sense to find an excuse to get out of the freebee business and then when the time was right, go get the money for crushing those bottles?
Dart doesn’t do Corporate Social Responsibility voluntarily or to proportionate scale of enterprise. They are net takers, rarely givers, unless it suits some other end. When will we reflect on their history and factor it into how we deal with them?
Most of the glass come from dart sold beer and wine bottles but they can’t afford a new crusher!
Is there anyone left on island that still believes dart wants to improve things for caymanians?
So when exactly did Jacques Scott, Big Daddy’s and all the other locally owned liquor outlets (or any business for that matter) offer up any recycling options. Never!
Your pathetic Dart bashing is getting old. Give it a rest or seek some professional help.
Dart owns Big Daddy’s and makes life very hard for Jacques Scott because of their monopoly. Caybrew had to sell out to Dart because they were going to pull all their products from Camana Bay, Kimpton, Westin, Hampton Inn, Yacht Club, Big Daddy’s, Blackbeards and all his other places. Small business owners have no chance with his duty concessions
Dart owns Big Daddy’s!
It behooves me to say in this regard but this opportunity is for the Caymanian entrepreneurs to take the lead and create a Caymanian glass recycling site hiring exclusively hard working Caymanian workforce. Implement 10 cents and 25 cents deposit refunds just like they do in Alberta Canada. Easy way to hire Caymanians with a stable highly recession proof jobs
Canadiens drink too much beer.
Dear Pathetic Dartarse Kisser:
YOU are the one that needs to check your idiocy problem!
Triggered. 😂😂😂😂
You do realize big daddy’s is owned by dart? No professional help needed to understand a that Dart sells more glass than anyone else on island.
Dart bought Bug Daddy’s like he has most strategic entities
Or in other words a local Caymanian family SOLD to Dart
Doesn’t DART own Big Daddy’s. Haven’t the prominent shareholders of Jacques Scott literally toiled to build the foundations of Cayman and funded everything from Lions to Rotary without any quid pro quo other than a better community for them to live and walk around in?
Dart wants to increase usuagw if styrofoam and solo cups
Huh? Did you write this after downing a bottle or two?
If you think that’s how Ken Dart makes his money these days then you are stupid enough to deserve everything that is coming to you.
Get with current facts.
so just store it in its own pile at the dump. when the solution is found they will be ready.
Ummmm, you guys still have the dump?
Dump it in the sea over the wall where it will be returned to it’s natural state. Or build an artificial reef from it. Florida does that with tires.
In the middle of the ETH, where the dump is quickly heading.
I looked into glass recycling about four years ago. At that time, and probably now, the closest place was Miami. Miami suffers no shortage of incoming product, and therefore there were fairly tight requirements. These were my findings:
1. We could send raw bottles, unsorted, and lose money on the cost of shipping them vs. the gain of sales.
2. Most recycling entities in Miami accept glass that is sorted, crushed to a specific degree, and bagged in special bags. This scenario would require a staging area — probably at the various dumps to sort the glass colour. Some recyclers prefer that the labels are removed. This scenario also requires industrial glass crushers and specific bags.
3. I could not discover a collection of variables which would allow us to break even, let alone a modest profit. We have to remember that the industrial recyclers in the U.S. have no shortage of pre-approved, packaged and incoming glass.
4. We will have to somehow go well outside of the traditional box to make this work.
5. My own personal opinion is that if Mr. Dart desires to be embraced by his adoptive territory, he might take a loss to make this work. This would be something good for all of us.
Life is short Mr. Dart. You can’t take it with you, but you might be able to tip the balance of judgement. I guess we will see, Sir, if our view of the afterlife is accurate.
Ken Dart. Cayman’s Elon Musk.
Or, you could do it.
If you read what I wrote, you would discover that, no, I couldn’t do it, because I am not rich and cannot afford to operate at a loss.
If I were a 6+ billionaire, and relatively recently welcomed to an island paradise, I might consider a project in which I took a loss and greatly benefited my adoptive brethren.
Of course, I’d have to actually BE a billionaire to get into that mindset. I have no problems with Mr. Dart or his works. I think he could do more on a fundamental infrastructural level to benefit his last resting place.
…”I guess we will see, Sir, if our view of the afterlife is accurate”.
Yea, but you and I won’t be around to witness it! Current reality is what matters and what we can influence.
I don’t care. I’ve seen a lot and traveled a lot and communed with lots of people and felt the Earth under my feet in many places.
You live your life as you see fit, by your own rules. It’s a good thing.
Lol – if you think Mr. Dart will ever be embraced by the majority of Caymanians, you are delusional.
Camana Bay really seems to have gone down hill a lot the last few years. Dart seems to care less and less and this just seems to be yet another example.
Dart the majority of what he wants now, as well as Cayman status, so what would he care about now?
Dart never cared. They are only interested in what will play to get what they really want. Always an angle.
It REALLY took a turn during lockdown, but it did seem to go downhill prior to that.
Such a shame, Camana Bay used to really look first rate, whomever is responsible for the property maintenance/landscaping should have a talking to.
yes probably the new senior management trying to save costs.
Caymanian here. I used to want my kids to work at dart as I thought they cared and my kids could progress. Not any more, the whole organization just seems to have lost its way. I now feel sorry for the people that work there.
Surely you mean “Downtown George Town” and not “Camana Bay”?
Camana Bay is packed on a Saturday night; downtown is dead.
Financial services firms are vacating downtown and moving to new facilities at Camana Bay.
A new specialist hospital is being built at Camana Bay.
Camana Bay has excellent sporting and fitness facilities.
Really not a Dart fan but been around long enough to see GT turn into a ghost town while Dart went ahead and did exactly what CIG should have done to revitalise GT decades ago. GT has always been an excellent spot for mixed use (residential and commercial) activities. Like many have already said those ministers we have placed our trust in for all those decades have successively failed us with complete lack of vision and foresight.
Right! He’s fully assimilated and is now behaving like a CAYMANIAN!
Extremely poor planning – I’m sure they didn’t just wake up this morning and discover the machine was aging. What shockingly poor behavior from an organization that is likely already the single largest stressor on the island’s natural environment. Abysmal.
I could always see through this.
What a pane.
Get it?
Tantrum? Looks silly and quite beneath them.
Boss Dart and his crews of managers will straiten things out, don’t you little people worry about that. It will just get added onto the cost of making the new waste disposal plant!
Good thing Dart got all those Duty exemptions…….
Complete and utter failure by CIG.
Contrary to popular belief, DART and CIG (for the most part) remain separate entities.
Not exactly black and white though, is it ?
4:14 pm the only sensible comment so far. Why is everyone bashing Dart here? They provided a service free of charge for 10 years and in that time Government couldn’t do a thing to step up and plan ahead? Good god.
Free of charge? Waste they directly profited from the production of as MOST glass bottles in Cayman appear to be imported by them through their various companies, and then used by them as aggregate and fill all while processing green credentials in consequence. Providing the public of Cayman with a service? Boy, that Cool aid strong!
9:50 pm Logic alludes you. If they didn’t provide the service (without charging anyone), all the glass would wind up at the dump, and be an additional burden/tax on the general public. Truth be known, Dart was socially responsible and started glass recycling initially for its tenants and Dart-owned entities. The public caught wind of this and liked the idea, and persuaded Dart to open up its service to the public. If you think Dart profited financially from this, think again. Do you realize how labour and $$ intense it is to empty the bins, clean the glass, clean the bins and run the crusher machine? All for a few bits of glass dust to add to brick pavers and landscaping? Give your head a serious shake if you think this a viable business venture.
I never suggested it was a viable business venture. It is not. DART however has a responsibility, both given their stature and their disdain for the dump – leaving aside they are the primary importer of glass and user of aggregate, and spouter of “green” credentials.
Go ahead and list all the LEED certified buildings in Cayman for us, with their ratings.