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A major equipment upgrade by Flying Tree Environmental Manangement aimed at significantly reducing plastic waste in the country.

More in tonight's Inside Business with Melissa Maynard
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00:00InsideBusiness is brought to you by Visa.
00:19Local company Flying Tree Environmental Management
00:22has expanded its capacity to deal with plastic waste
00:25with a piece of equipment costing $500,000
00:30The machine is able to grind plastic of any size or shape
00:33of up to 1,500 kilos per hour.
00:36Director of Flying Tree, Juan Andreda, tells InsideBusiness
00:39that the upcycling of old plastics will produce several new products.
00:44What we call the giant threader
00:47is the biggest threader in the Caribbean.
00:52This threader is 100 horses of power
00:57with a double shaft of threading counter-rotating gears.
01:06With this machine, we are now able to process
01:11all the materials that due to the size, shape and hardness
01:15we couldn't process before.
01:18Like, for example, now we are able to process
01:23car bumpers, dashboards.
01:26We actually put an entire van pickup duraliner in it
01:32because the threader is huge.
01:35He says the main partner in the venture is Milagro Solutions Ltd.
01:39However, several other entities have provided support
01:42and funding for the initiative.
01:45Then we get funding for outreach and community programs
01:54from Jeff S.G.P., from UN, Jeff S.G.P.,
02:01and very important contribution for equipment
02:06coming from Shaping the Future of Innovation
02:11and is a program that is run by the European Union,
02:17IDB, CARIRI and the Ministry of Planning and Development.
02:22FlyingTree observed International Upcycling Day
02:25for the first time in TNT on Monday, June 24.
02:28On Monday, stakeholders toured its Arima facility
02:31to get a first-hand view of the machine at work.
02:34Upcycling Day is recognized as a day to encourage people
02:37to reuse or repurpose their used items.
02:40The day was never observed in TNT until now
02:43but has been celebrated across the globe
02:45in an effort to reduce waste.
02:48FlyingTree Environmental Management
02:51celebrated for the first time in Trinidad and Tobago
02:56the International Upcycling Day
03:00and we focused a bit on the plastic
03:05and the capability to becoming upcycling items,
03:10upcycling materials as an economic force
03:16to create economical benefits.
03:19Besides the obvious environmental sustainability benefits.
03:26I am Melissa Middard for InsideBusiness.
03:33InsideBusiness was brought to you by Visa.
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