Puerto Rico Uses Hurricane Headlines to Help Make It a Global Destination
Many travelers have probably heard a lot about Puerto Rico during the past year following Hurricane Maria, and the island’s tourism officials think that’s a good thing.
After Maria’s rain and winds left Puerto Rico, officials quickly realized that, when trying to get tourism roaring back, there’s usually no such thing as bad publicity, said Carla Campos, executive director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, speaking Thursday at Skift Global Forum in New York City…
Green group urges wood recycling from trees felled by Mangkhut
The government should set up recycling zones to handle wood from the trees that were brought down by Typhoon Mangkhut, an environmental group said on Tuesday, arguing that the fallen trees that are being chopped up must be put to use as much as possible, rather than allow the material to get dumped as waste in landfill sites.
At a press conference, Green Sense chief executive Roy Tam Hoi-pong, who is also a member of the Tsuen Wan District Council, criticized the government over the manner in which it is dealing with the large amount of fallen trees and branches.
Attention is not being paid to the issue of utilization of the wood waste, Tam said, noting that there haven’t been efforts to sort the chopped up tree trunks and branches to determine which can be put to use for recycling…
