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Continued commitment to Recycling
The Sandals Foundation extended its ‘green thumb’ this week to the Negril Recycling Center donating JA$320,000 to support the facility’s plastic recycling project.
Spearheading innovative environmental conservation and material reuse, the recent grant to the centre represents a significant contribution towards the purchase of a 15 HP Nelmor Plastic Shredder; a crucial tool in the centre’s initiative to produce and distribute plastic lumber on the local market.
Indeed a nouveau way to deal with local plastic refuse, the Centre worked in tandem with the Environmental Resource Management (ERM), utilizing their shredder to convert 26,000 lbs of plastic per week (roughly the weight of two adult elephants) to 240 pieces of 1X8X12 plastic lumber until the ERM proposed sale of the machine earlier this year. Now with the help of The Sandals Foundation and the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica, the Negril Recycling Centre will purchase the machine from ERM and resume their production of recycled plastic products.
Plastic recycling plays a huge role in environmental conservation and has spawned several ecological products such as plastic lumber and alternative plastic fibers. Since inception of the project, the Negril facility has increased its collection of plastic refuse to meet the market demands for its cutting edge ‘go green’ products.
This marks the second donation in the past eight months by The Sandals Foundation to the Negril Recycling Centre to assist with special projects and key operational needs. JA$ 500,000 was donated to the Centre in October 2009 to assist with the reconstruction of the bridge and roadway leading towards the facility.
Heidi Clarke (third left), director of programmes at the Sandals Foundation, hands over a cheque valued at $320,000 to Carey Wallace, president of the Negril Chamber of Commerce, operators of the Negril Recycling Centre. Looking on are Mark Swainbank of Environmental Resources Management (from left); Junior Gordon, director of the Negril Chamber of Commerce and general manager for Grand Pineapple Negril; Jermaine Robinson, manager of the Negril Chamber of Commerce; and Peter Reid, manager of the Negril Recycling Centre.
