Thu | Jan 29, 2026

What of recycling the rubble?

Published:Wednesday | January 28, 2026 | 12:05 AM
Debris littered the town of Lewisville, in St. Elizabeth, more than a month after the passage of Hurricane Melissa in October 2025.
Ian Allen
Debris littered the town of Lewisville, in St. Elizabeth, more than a month after the passage of Hurricane Melissa in October 2025.

THE EDITOR, Madam:

Having seen a recent documentary on the 61 tonnes of rubble that had accumulated on the Gaza Strip, experts predict that to clear such a mess will take at least seven to 10 years.

The scale of devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, though disastrous and intensive, was somehow not as destructive and as widespread as what had taken place in Gaza, but we have indeed accumulated a huge amount of debris. As a country, we done extremely well. We have managed our own mess and have cleared this large accumulation within just two months or so. High praise to the Jamaican Government.

With all that is said, I don’t hear any mention of recycling any of the rubble, only to dump it in the sea..

More climate-change problems upon ourselves.

WESLEY THOMAS