The Guadalajara Reporter

Innovative plastic recycling company opens its doors

Remember that priceless scene in the 1967 film classic “The Graduate” when a zealous businessman collars the naïve protagonist Benjamin Braddock to offer a “just one word” of career advice? “Plastics,” declares Mr. McGuire. “Exactly how do you mean?” Benjamin asks. “There’s a great future in plastics,” McGuire replies solemnly.

Who envisioned back then that those words were an accurate prediction concerning not only the value of plastic in the mass production of all kinds of consumer goods, but also the huge dilemma of how to dispose of vast amounts of spent wastes that now are inundating the entire planet?  

At the time, dealing with inorganic refuse wasn’t a subject foremost in the minds of Craig Shanholtzer and Francisco Gonzalez. By a strange twist of fate, these two guys – born in different lands, in the same “boomer” generation – eventually paired up to establish Recicladora de la Ribera de Chapala (RRC), lakeside’s first bona fide plastics recycling and processing center.

RCC is more than a simple depository for junk plastic. It is forward-thinking enterprise equipped to collect, sort and mill different types of discarded plastic that can be easily converted into reusable material.

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