Recycling today in Trinidad and Tobago
Today in Trinidad and Tobago, the majority of plastic bottles manufactured every year remain uncollected. The Every Bottle Back Trinidad and Tobago (EveryBottleBackTT) initiative seeks to change this reality by launching a new project to collect and recycle plastic beverage bottles.
EveryBottleBackTT’s focus is on recovering and reusing plastic bottles by educating citizens on the benefits of recycling, and supplying tools to do so. The initiative’s primary goal is to support a vision of cleaner and brighter cities, streets, and beaches and ending flooding through this effort.
Beginning with a pilot phase in Port of Spain, the plan is to expand to other parts of the island by 2023 and to reach a bottle collection and recycling rate of 20 percent by 2025