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 markets and wonders what each could learn from the other.

Guests

Allan Sandilands, Circular Economy Lead, Resource Futures

Stewart Wellens, CEO, Trojan Services

Thomas Bye, Operations Manager, TroTrof Composites

Resources

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introduction-of-plastic-packaging-tax/plastic-packaging-tax

Partner

Trojan Services creates cable protection management systems for large infrastructure. Current industry users range across multiple sectors in the UK and Canada.

Trojan aims to considerably reduce the CO2 footprint of every project they supply for with a more cost-effective solution that can utilise the UK’s plastic waste. They intercept large volumes of selected plastics destined for landfill.

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