September 2015 Issue 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