The
Good Business Award was
created to highlight the
excellent work done by
U.S. organizations outside
the United States.
/ Municipality of
Siquirres courtesy photo
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Good
Business Award is given for
the first time
to a recycling company in
Costa Rica
By the
A.M. Costa Rica staff
The U.S. Embassy gave a Good
Business Award to the Costa
Rican company Recyplast, as
recognition of its work and
leadership in benefit of the
environment in the country.
The recycling company located in
Siquirres*
received the award in the
category of sustainable
operations, which the U. S.
government granted for the first
time to a company in Costa Rica.
"This company is an unusual
example of an environmental
service that is vertically
integrated with an industry that
produces waste, which after
recycling is used as packaging
material in the process of
exporting fruit," said Sharon
Day, U. S. ambassador in Costa
Rica. "This process represents
the convergence of
environmental, social and
economic interests to create
sustainability and, at the same
time, a benefit to the
community."
The Good Business Award was
created to highlight the
excellent work done by U.S.
organizations outside the United
States. There are different
categories for all productive
sectors, which will be delivered
throughout this and next year.
In November, the prize for the
community development category
will be awarded.
"It is a pleasure to have the
presence of Ambassador Sharon
Day in the heart of the
Caribbean community," said
Mangell McLean, mayor of
Siquirres.
Recyplast was created by the
companies Dole and Del Monte and
became a pioneer in the
collection of field plastics
after its use in the operations
of banana plantations.
This process includes the
recovery of plastic bags that
protect banana clusters from
weather and insects and the
collection of the plastic cords
used to hold the stems and other
plastics that protect the fruit
during its cultivation.
These plastics are transformed
into corners that support the
platforms in which bananas are
transported, and, sometimes,
those corners are also recycled.
According to the embassy
records, when the company was
founded 26 years ago, it
produced four metric tons per
day of plastic materials,
derived from waste. Currently,
it produces more than 21 metric
tons, per day. This means that
the firm manufactures more than
44,000 corners for packing
containers with fruit every day.
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