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Business View Caribbean
60 September 2015 - Business View Caribbean
cler, and made the resin that can be used again, there
is always virgin material that needs to be added to it.”
In addition, under United States’ FDA (Food and Drug
Administration) standards, which all companies must
be guided by, it is impermissible, under present regu-
lations, for Resin Converters to add post-consumer re-
cycled materials in the production of packaging that
goes back into the food industry. “We don’t have the
mechanism for cleaning the material, at this point,” he
laments. And so far, his company has been limited to
using up to a 35 percent recycling ratio for products it
sells to the chemical industry.
Quesnel is the first one to accept the strange ambi-
guity of his situation and that the solutions will not
come overnight. “It takes time,” he admits. “You have
to get the financing to buy the machinery and a suf-
ficient guarantee of available feedstock waste to meet
financial viability considerations.” And yet he remains
