Building capacity to develop and provide long term sustainability for St Helena's paper and card recycling unit
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Darwin Plus
VALUE £99,200
WHERE St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Summary
• Increase SHAPE’s capability to process a significant percentage of recycled paper and card.
• To reduce the amount of paper and card going into landfill from 12% to 6% by 2015
• Provide the capacity for SHAPE to increase its mechanisation to enhance its production of pulp.
• The percentage of disabled working people on island will increase from 50% to 66% providing 6 additional work opportunities.
SHAPE’s Paper and Card recycling centre will be a model centre using renewable energy sources and will be environmentally efficient and as far as practical financially sustainable.
Biodiversity monitoring efforts aimed at identifying the migration patterns of Endangered sea turtles highlight the urgent need for global conservation.
