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Business View Caribbean
62 September 2015 - Business View Caribbean
hopeful. “But these problems are going to be solved
in the not-too-distant future,” he believes. “There are
many people working on this problem, world-wide.
There are technologies in the U.S. that successfully
takes comingled plastics and make boards and pallets
out of them. That industry has been around for a while
in the U.S.” Quesnel points to a company called JET
Recycling America, Inc. a Nevada-based business that
uses a proprietary technology to transform virtually all
forms and grades of plastic waste, comingled and re-
gardless of contamination, directly into valuable, 100
percent recycled products.
According to Quesnel, even though Trinidad is a small
country, between 50 and 60 million plastic bottles are
disposed of into the waste system, every month. He
believes that a big part of the problem is that his fel-
low citizens are not well-educated about the need and
benefits of recycling. “We do not have the proper edu-
cational material out in the schools and in the general
media,” he says. “But I’m going to continue trying to
get good sense to prevail; to get my country to accept
that recycling is necessary - not only of plastics, but
of all the other recycle-friendly materials. We have to
treat waste as a potential income and not just taking
it to the dump and waste disposal areas, loading more
dirt on top of it and thinking it will go away. It’s not go-
ing to go away. We have to deal with it.”
