{"id":3415,"date":"2022-03-08T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lauradowrich.com\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2024-01-05T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T17:53:38","slug":"women-breakingthebias-sian-cuffy-young-takes-on-waste-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauradowrich.com\/women-breakingthebias-sian-cuffy-young-takes-on-waste-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Women #breakingthebias: Sian Cuffy-Young takes on waste management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Sian Cuffy-Young views waste management as sexy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Founder of Siel Environmental Services Limited, the businesswoman is obsessed with waste management and has dedicated her career to educating people about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Operating in the field for the last 17 years, Cuffy-Young says it is a male-dominated one in which there are few women and even fewer of African descent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a result, she has had to chart her own course, seeking mentorship wherever she could and, in turn, providing guidance for those who wish to follow in her footsteps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cuffy-Young\u2019s obsession with waste management was birthed at a young age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy father is into cub scouts and he taught me the conservation law which is you always leave a place cleaner than you left it. For all my life I have always been interacting with waste in some way, picking up after others and that kind of thing. At the age of 10, I went swimming with my family in Chaguaramas and a loaded pamper hit me in my face,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n