The primary cargo of recyclable plastic waste has been dispatched below the Recycle OECS Venture. The cargo out of Dominica left on the finish of December 2023 for Honduras with an arrival date of January 10.
This undertaking milestone additionally represents a major first for the Dominica Strong Waste Administration Company (DSWMC), the Waste Administration company main the implementation of the Recycle OECS Mannequin Demonstration Venture in Dominica.
Whereas the DSWMC has been accumulating and stockpiling recyclable plastics for a while now, by technical assist supplied below the Recycle OECS Venture, the Company has now progressed from assortment and storage to export in late December 2023.
This cargo was organized by the commodity dealer, Recycling and Waste Logistics of Trinidad and Tobago. Dominica’s first cargo comprised 65 bales of plastic at an estimated weight of 13 tonnes.
The plastics had been certain for a recycling producer in Honduras, TerraPolyester S.A. de C.V. TerraPolyester is the biggest recycling processing zone within the Western Hemisphere, exporting and reutilizing quite a lot of waste merchandise. The corporate produces uncooked clear PET fakes, that are then additional used within the recycling processes, and likewise produces premium polyester fiber from post-consumer PET packaging.
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