Imagine the picturesque Bimini Islands. Located just forty two miles east of Miami on the Florida coast, it is the closest of the Bahamian Islands to the United States and just a twenty minute hop by air or a couple of hours by boat. Bimini is so close to us geographically, but yet so very far away in terms of waste management regulations compared to the United States.
I could spend a great deal of time describing the beauty of North and South Bimini. They are truly little gems and then, on the flip side of the coin, the extreme garbage and trash that has been left to pile up on the side of the roads and along some of the harbor ways is not only an eyesore, but a health hazard.
I checked out the waste management situation in Bimini. There is a landfill on South Bimini that gets burned every now and then, but for the most part, the carcasses of dead cars and trucks just rust away, the used oil and batteries get toted back to Florida occasionally and the rest of the waste just hangs out and gets picked over by the birds and other animals. This is not a very healthy situation for people or our environment.
What is the answer to save their fragile island environment? Perhaps these islands ought to consider a high heat thermal process such as gasification to take care of their waste management needs.
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