With funding from the Inter-American Development Bank, the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development recently launched the Clean Green Guyana Campaign which seeks to replace plastic bags with reusable bags for grocery shopping.
According to a Guyenterprise press release, the initiative was launched to offset the single-use products and non-reusable waste, including plastic bags, plastic bottles and styrofoam containers which currently constitute 10% of the waste generated in Region 4.
Research, the press release said, shows that this type of non-reusable waste is the