Plastic Recycling

Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues, as rapidly increasing production of disposable plastic products overwhelms the world’s ability to deal with them.

Private public partnership On St. Thomas, volunteers coordinated by the Environmental Association of St. Thomas and the Green Team met at 8 a.m. Saturdays to sort and bag eligible plastic containers for recycling.

The V.I. Children’s Museum, working with the Environmental Association of St. Thomas(EAST), the V.I. Green Team, and VICS, was collecting plastic bottle caps that can’t be recycled; these are then processed into usable products like bag clips and bowls.