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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #120 Recycled Plastic: The Canadian Potential
Description: In 2019, Justin Trudeau declared war on plastic waste. And single-use plastics were listed as a toxic material in Canada in May of this year. Before long, Canadian companies will have to find a use for the immense quantity of material they generate. Yet the North American reprocessing industry is still young.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, a mature reprocessing industry in the UK waits on government legislation to encourage project owners to embrace more sustainable practices.
A family company that supplies recycled polymer troughing to the railway industry straddles both of these...