Great, great news Crucians, can recycling is back on island! I know that I always feel a twinge of mental anguish everytime I throw a can in the garbage, but we haven’t had any on island options for recycling until now. The Boys & Girls Club, in addition to all the great work they do for our community, is now bringing can recycling to st. Croix. Planning to open the last week of March, the Boys & Girls Club Recycle Center will re-open in Anna’s Hope, between The Department of Public Works and Gateway Gas. The recycle center will operate as a drop off site, where you can go to drop off aluminum and steel cans for recycling, every Thursday through Saturday.
It’s important to note that the Boys & Girls Club Recycle Center is in Phase One right now, which means they are only accepting cans to recycle. Any kind of aluminum beverage cans or steel cans from soup, canned vegetables and fruit, juice, etc. are okay to drop off. Please make sure everything is rinsed well to minimize pests. Hopefully the Recycle Center will be so successful with cans that they will be able to move on to Phase Two, which is plastic bottles and then Phase Three– glass. They cannot accommodate plastic, glass or motor oil as of right now, so please don’t drop off these things until they have moved on to the new phase.
As important as the service the Recycle Center provides us islanders, it’s even more important that we show them our consistent support. They need to process at least 5 
million cans to break even– it sounds like a lot but that’s only 20% of the 27 million cans that are imported into our island each year. We need to do our part to keep those cans out of the landfill and into the recycling system. Our island is too small to sustain that kind of waste and damage to our ecosystem will affect us all immediately. If we want to keep recycling on St. Croix, we need to be sure to support the facilities that provide such fantastic resources for us.
Also, restaurant, hotel, bar and condo owners and managers– it’s really important that you make the effort to collect cans and drop them off at the center. Because such a high volume of cans move through restaurants, bars, and hotels, contributions from those places will make a huge difference in supporting the center and making sure they reach their 5 million and more mark. Making lasting environmental change is all about the small contributions and lifestyle habits we as a collective group must adopt to sustain the world around us. Just a small effort by a large group can make an enormous difference.
I’m very excited about the ability to recycle on St. Croix! I’ll raise a can to their efforts, and then promptly drop it off at the new center!
For more information, you can contact us at info@gotostcroix.com or Colleen Sullivan, who is the new director of the Recycle Center– her email address is recyclecolleen58@yahoo.com.
This is FANTASTIC and exciting news!
Recycling is very very important in order to preserve mother earth.-:.
we should always think about recycling our waste products to help the environment.`*.
UPDATE: There is STILL no recycling center open on St. Croix. There are NO options for those of us that want to recycle cans, plastics, paper, glass and everything else! BIG bummer!
recycling is a very important thing to do so that we can help our environment:”‘
recycling should always be implemented to avoid to much pollution in the environment -~*
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