The La Brea In­dus­tri­al De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (Labid­co) of­fi­cial­ly re­ceived the Waste Man­age­ment Plan Re­port for the La Brea In­dus­tri­al Es­tate and the Port of Brighton from The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) yes­ter­day. The re­port was hand­ed over dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny at UTT’s Ago­ra Cam­pus in Ch­agua­nas.

The re­port was part of a 10-month col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween the two or­gan­sa­tions.

The re­port gave in­sight as well as a roadmap for the ef­fi­cient, cost-ef­fec­tive, and sus­tain­able treat­ment of waste gen­er­at­ed on the La Brea In­dus­tri­al Es­tate and the Port of Brighton.

It in­clud­ed a thor­ough as­sess­ment of waste vol­umes, op­por­tu­ni­ties for re­cy­cling, reuse, and re­duc­tion, and ex­plores in­no­v­a­tive ways to con­vert waste in­to val­ue-added ma­te­ri­als and in­come-gen­er­at­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties. The project al­so high­light­ed the en­vi­ron­men­tal and eco­nom­ic ben­e­fits of im­ple­ment­ing the rec­om­men­da­tions from the re­port.

These rec­om­men­da­tions in­clude re­duc­ing fi­nal waste by an es­ti­mat­ed 60 per cent—equiv­a­lent to 10,000 tonnes an­nu­al­ly. In a re­lease yes­ter­day, Labid­co said, “Ac­tion plans for each rec­om­men­da­tion were de­vel­oped in de­tail, out­lin­ing spe­cif­ic strate­gies for waste di­ver­sion and re­in­forc­ing Labid­co’s com­mit­ment to en­vi­ron­men­tal stew­ard­ship and sus­tain­able in­dus­tri­al de­vel­op­ment.”

Labid­co’s gen­er­al man­ag­er, Dr Ver­non Pal­too said that the com­ple­tion of this waste man­age­ment plan “un­der­scores Labid­co’s ded­i­ca­tion to sus­tain­abil­i­ty and our broad­er strate­gic goals. It is a crit­i­cal step in re­al­is­ing our near-term vi­sion of be­com­ing a cer­ti­fied Green Port, pro­mot­ing eco-friend­ly prac­tices that pos­i­tive­ly im­pact the en­vi­ron­ment, our stake­hold­ers, and the broad­er com­mu­ni­ty.”