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Hutchison Port Holdings Limited’s Bahamas Business Units Participates In Global Environmental Initiative
By Sherry Brookes
Sep 25, 2014 - 6:48:17 PM

Grand Bahama Airport Company (GBAC) employees support the HPH / DP World ‘Recycling Begins & Ends With You’ Initiative.

Grand Bahama Island - Reaffirming their commitmentto environmental preservation and sustainability, Freeport Container Port (FCP), Freeport Harbour Company (FHC) and Grand Bahama Airport Company (GBAC) have taken part in a global environmental campaign launched by their parent company Hutchison Port Holdings Limited (HPH) together with DP World. The theme of the global waste reduction campaign is “Recycling Begins & Ends With You.

The campaign officially began on Friday 19 September with a number of individual and joint activities carried out at HPH and DP World terminals around the world, including clean-up days at terminals and beaches, food waste disposal and composting efforts, battery recycling and office recycling.

In Grand Bahama, employees from FCP, FHC and GBAC took part in clean-up and recycling activities exercise at the various terminals and surrounding communities. The recycling campaign included the collection of old batteries, aluminum cans, glass bottles and ink toner cartridges from all three company’s offices. All items collected were donated to local recycling company Tons O Scrap Recycling, with the proprietors Tom Rollins and his wife collected approximately 700 pounds of materials in total.

Environmental activities continued on 20 September when employees from FCP, FHC and GBAC gathered at Xanadu Beach in Freeport and Lover’s Beach in Eight Mile Rock for a beach clean-up.

This ‘green’ collaboration comes as an estimated 11.2 billion tonnes of solid waste is collected worldwide every year and its degeneration is said to contribute to around 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Freeport Container Port (FCP) donated used batteries, bags of cans and bottles, ink cartages collected from in-house and various industries partners and businesses around the Island. One of the groups made the handover of recyclable to Mr. and Mrs. Rollins of Tons O Scrap Recycling Company Ltd. The cargo includes vehicle batteries, bags of cans and bottles, copy machine ink cartages. In the photo are Sherry Brookes – Corporate/Government Affairs Director, Malvese Capron – HR Director and Jason Pinder – Safety

Freeport Harbour Company (FHC) wore their tee shirts today and interacted with cruise ship passengers telling them about our HPH “Recycling Begins & Ends With You” initiative which began on 19-21 September.