Deposit and Silent for Decades Environmental Policy Dagblad Suriname

It is good practice for a beer manufacturer to introduce a deposit in Suriname A deposit can ensure that the green beer bottles are no longer thrown here and there in public.

It means that the consumer pays part of the price he pays for beer as a guarantee that he will not pollute the environment The price of the deposit is not part of the beer price, it is an extra on top of the beer price.

If the consumer does not return the bottle, the extra remains with the retailer and eventually ends up in the pockets of the beer producer who introduced the deposit The question then is what this company will do with the extra.

In fact, it would be quite justified if the company were expected to spend the money on cleaning up the bottles that are partly on the streets, end up in the roadsides and gutters of Suriname Deposit has no legal basis in Suriname, which means that companies that can be considered responsible for the pollution of mainly roadsides are not obliged to take measures to prevent pollution from their packaging materials.

If we look at what is thrown on the roadsides in Suriname and remains there until they are cleaned up by a citizen, we notice that it mainly concerns PET bottles of locally produced and imported soft drinks and bottled water, beer cans and bottles of imported and locally produced beer It may then be said that these companies, altogether maybe not even 20 in total, are responsible for considerable pollution in Suriname.

It is not that they themselves dump things into the environment, but that what they use to package their products or what they import and distribute here does end up in the environment via the consumer This means producers, importers and/or distributors of drinks (water, juices, beer and soft drinks).

We are now noticing that a European company, probably forced by an audit that assesses the company on its own 'corporate social responsibility' (CSR) rules, is itself proceeding to introduce a deposit It is well known that environmental rules are also part of the CSR rules.

It is also well known that beer bottles tend to end up in the environment in developing countries with very weak state structures European companies are judged on this, because they then contribute to the pollution of the environment in the poverty-stricken countries that have no legs to stand on.

Suriname is now also one of those countries Now we don't know if the company is breaking profit margin rules by putting the extra price on the beer it sells.

We hope that the other companies, which do not have to go through a European audit, will also introduce a deposit In fact, this (forced) self-regulation should mean nothing more than that the government of Suriname is confronted with the fact that it is unable to put simple legislation in order to protect the environment.

The Minister of the Environment once told the press in an interview that he does not believe in making strict rules to protect the environment from polluters This he said, because the minister does not believe that the governments of Suriname, probably with the quality of the civil servants in mind, will be able to enforce that legislation.

We totally disagree with this approach of the minister He also said that he prefers to change the behavior of the Surinamese, making legislation and imposing sanctions superfluous.

The Environment Minister assumes an ideal situation of a bourgeoisie that binds itself together and Surinamese may be ready in 100 years after proper 'engineering' in society by generations that will not be born for a long time yet We believe that the Minister of the Environment is doing a poor job in protecting the environment.

We have stated before that he very easily, after consultations of course, could have at least introduced legislation on deposits in the country If it fits within the framework of the Environmental Framework Act, the minister could perhaps have done it even more simply with a state decree for the implementation of this law, or even with a ministerial decree.

Now the beer company actually points out his negligence to the minister Incidentally, we must note that the entire environmental policy of the government leaves much to be desired, and in particular that of the Minister of the Environment.

Most of the citizens, even those with an academic education, do not even know that there is an Environment Minister and Ministry in the country That's because the Department of the Environment is one of the most silent and inactive in the entire government.

On the website of ROM it is not even possible to see who the director of Environment is, it is a fairly unknown and anonymous person, because it does nothing in the field of the environment On the website you can only download documents with complicated names that will not mean much to 95% of the Surinamese population.

And that is typical of Surinamese environmental policy for 30 years, starting with the first appointment of an Environment Minister in Suriname in 2000 It is mainly a matter by and for foreign countries and foreign organizations such as UNEP.

It is not for Surinamese and the Surinamese environment And the result does not lie.

starting with when an Environment Minister was first installed in Suriname in 2000 It is mainly a matter by and for foreign countries and foreign organizations such as UNEP.

It is not for Surinamese and the Surinamese environment And the result does not lie.

starting with when an Environment Minister was first installed in Suriname in 2000 It is mainly a matter by and for foreign countries and foreign organizations such as UNEP.

It is not for Surinamese and the Surinamese environment And the result does not lie.

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