“NWS
has humongous plans to increase the variety of recycled products for export. We
plan to increase the awareness of the Jamaican population about the importance
of recycling through advertising. We also have plans to hire more skilled and
unskilled to work in the areas of marketing, machine operation and general
collection of waste and recycled materials”
NWS (Nationwide Waste
Services) Ltd Marlon Grant commenting on the progress of his recycling company
Making
money from the recycling garbage is possible.
Already
an American company is coming to Jamaica to recycle or organic waste,
particularly cooking oil to make biodiesel as reported in my blog article
entitled “HERO
BX commercial-scale biodiesel plant - How Jamaica can recycle Cooking Oil to
supply US$614.92 billion market”.
But
what of local entrepreneurs in recycling in Jamaica?
NWS
(Nationwide Waste Services) Ltd is an example of a company that is doing just
that 2009 as reported in the article “Nationwide
waste renewal sees gold in recycling”, published November 29, 2015 by Avia
Collinder, The Jamaica Observer.
The
company's CEO Marlon Grant, who has sunk some JA$16 million into the expansion
of his operations, collects cardboard from the Riverton City dumps as well as
other dumps across Jamaica:
1.
DLK (Double line kraft)
2.
OCC (Old Corrugated cardboard)
Located
at 154 Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston, the 10 man strong team compacts the
cardboard for recycling by their main clients Corrpak Jamaica and AMG
Packaging. However they branched into export, which is a recent activity
started since 2014.
NWS
Ltd collects garbage from the landfills under contract, using a combination of
the following trucks:
1.
Garbage trucks
2.
Roll-on and roll-off trucks
Forklifts
then the garbage is weighed using commercial scales before being packed into
bundles onto pallets, placed into containers ready for shipping abroad. To make
additional revenue, they also provide haulage service for the bauxite
companies.
This
is to presumably cart away waste topsoil from the bauxite extraction process,
to quote Marlon Grant, owner and CEO of NWS (Nationwide Waste Services) Ltd:
“We also collect and dispose of solid waste at the landfills and, additionally,
provide haulage for bauxite”.
Now,
they are in a unique position, as there is a demand for their recycled
cardboard business model.
NWS Ltd in expansion
mode thanks to DBJ - How recycling is Jamaica only way to manage our increasing
waste disposal problem
The
company is now in expansion mode, having recently borrowed and additional JA$5
million from the DBJ (Development Bank of Jamaica).
This
is in a bid to achieve some 10% in revenues as they already have a healthy ROI
(Return on Investment) of 20%, with 2015 being a good year for them, to quote
NWS Ltd CEO: “....steady and stable and the demand for our products and
services have been spiralling upward. Revenues have been steadily increasing
this year in comparison to last year because we have increased the pool of
customers, and our network of collection of used cardboard has increased”.
The
DBJ is very interested in his business, as obviously, with our increasing
population and waste management problems at the Riverton City dump, NWS Ltd can
only grow, as NWS Ltd CEO Marlon Grant points out, quote: “The DBJ convinced me
that it had a genuine interest. Furthermore the interest rate was very
competitive. The loan will be used to purchase new equipment such as balers,
pallet jacks and forklifts and to hire more employees to facilitate our
anticipated growth”.
This
means he can now expand into recycling other items such as Car tyres which were
the cause of the Riverton City dump fire back in 2014 as reported in my blog article
entitled “How
to make Diesel and Gasoline from the Pyrolysis of Car Tyres and Plastics -
Jamaican Riverton City Dump Fire Ecological Disaster solution that reduces
Jamaica's Oil Bill”.
Recycling tyre and
Electronic Waste – Entrepreneurs wanted as Waste set to increase as population
increases
These
tyres are part of the reason why the fire at the Riverton City Dump on Wednesday March 11th 2015 burned for so
long as reported in the article “Riverton
dump fire spreads”, published Friday, March 13, 2015 BY KIMMO MATTHEWS Observer staff
reporter, The Jamaica Observer and “Riverton
City Dump On Fire”, Published Wednesday March 11, 2015, The Jamaica Gleaner.
To
date, the Riverton City dump is poorly guarded, leaving open the possibility of
yet another fire at the Riverton City dump as suggested in the article “Guarding
Garbage - Lack Of Security Leaves Riverton Open To Arsonists”, published
Sunday November 29, 2015, The Jamaica
Gleaner.
He
might even look into expanding into organic waste and even electronic waste,
which the NSWMA has been pioneering successfully as noted in my blog article
entitled “NSWMA's
E-Waste Collection Pilot Project - Why End-of-life Policy for E-Waste Collection
needed in Jamaica”.
The
increasing population of Jamaica is putting pressure on the Riverton City
Dumps. Being able to recycle our garbage is going to become big business in the
next five years both for local entrepreneurs as well as multi-nationals, who
realize there is Gold in Garbage.
Hopefully
before they set the Riverton City Dump on fire again!!
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