Topic: composting

Cayman hotels expand food-waste recycling, diverting landfill waste into compost as tourism aligns with global sustainability standards.

Food waste and discarded cardboard boxes and pallets from Foster's supermarkets, that would otherwise end up in the George Town landfill, are being ferried to Beacon Farms in North Side where they are being composted.

Cabinet on Tuesday approved a new plan for the George Town landfill, including a waste-to-energy plant to incinerate waste. The new waste management strategy calls for capping the landfill, creating a new recycling facility on the site and reducing the amount of waste going into the landfill by 95 percent.

Turning trash into electricity in a waste-to-energy plant is a central part of government’s new national waste management plan, which includes no new landfill site. Jim Schubert, the senior project manager, said the plant would be key to achieving the ambitious target of diverting 95 percent of waste from landfill.