Recycling and Green Jobs

The framing of this paper is that a waste stream is also a raw-material stream and a potential employer, and it sets out both sides methodically. On the material side it inventories what is available: biomass in the form of plant and animal waste, dry and wet vegetation, plastic and textiles, metals, wood and glass, electronics, oils, and spare parts. On the collection side it identifies where those materials come from: markets, households and the other zones from which a recycling operation would need to draw. Presented to the Table Verte of 26 May 2016 alongside the national solid-waste policy and the Les Cayes collection case, it supplies the economic argument that the other two papers imply: if municipal collection is failing for want of resources, then a stream that pays for part of its own handling is not a side benefit but part of the financing answer.