Regional Evaluation Municipal Solid Waste Management Services. Country Analytical Report, Jamaica. Evaluation 2002
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[Exexutive Summary] The Jamaica government has adopted an integrated approach to the management of solid waste and is therefore participating in Evaluation 2002 to identify and organize existing data to assist the process. With a burgeoning population, the evolution of the solid waste sector has been in the first instance hap-hazard and then developed increased focus and rationale with a final consensus that landfilling municipal waste will prove to be the most effective and appropriate method to be employed for the island. Under the new regime, cost recovery mechanisms have been identified in the form of tipping fees and special waste disposal fee to supplement the budget for the sector. In analyzing the sector significant improvements have been identified especially as it relates to the collaboration with other sectors and partners. With the administrative management of the sector now with a central governing body, the National Solid Waste Management Authority, the sector gave way to a system where individual parks and markets companies had responsibilities for their own regions financed through local government subvention and was replaced by a transition sector with standardized practices and harmonized administrative and financial arrangements. The sector has also seen an increase in the shared and participatory approached to the management of waste with a number of private sector companies and non-governmental organizations emerging.
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