Mayors, EPA team-up to cleanup

by Krystal Paco

Guam - From abandoned vehicles, old tires, white goods, and batteries, the islands mayors have rejuvenated efforts to keep the villages clean thanks to a renewed partnership with the Guam Environmental Protection Agency. Mayors Council of Guam executive director Angel Sablan said, "If the funds are there we share it with the vendors that are of course permitted by EPA and in this case we don't only want to take it from one village and put it into somebody's else's backyard. We want to take it from the village to that business backyard and off the island taken away and recycled someplace else."

$550,000 from the Recycling Revolving Fund will be equally divided among the island's 19 districts for cleanup efforts.

For more information on how to recycle these goods, call your village mayor or visit the Guam EPA's website.