The jury still appears to be out on last week’s official announcement that as of January 1 next year the Government of Guyana will bring into effect a full-fledged ban on the importation of Styrofoam. It is a decision that coincides with an accelerated environmental lobby here in Guyana the current focus of which is an energetic urban cleanup campaign driven collectively by central government and the Georgetown municipality.
Indiscriminate dumping, unsightly garbage pileups and flooding resulting from clogged waterways have long been