Improving Canada’s recycling output will take ‘radical changes’: report
OTTAWA – An analysis of Canada’s plastic industry shows the industry producing plastic dwarfs the industry trying to recycle it.
The report, completed by consulting firms Deloitte and ChemInfo Services, was commissioned by Environment and Climate Change Canada to guide its plan to cut the country’s plastics waste to zero.
It found the plastics-manufacturing industry is a significant economic driver in Canada, worth $35 billion in sales of resins and plastic manufactured goods in 2017, and supporting about 93,000 jobs across more than 1,900 companies.
By comparison, there were fewer than a dozen recycling companies, employing about 500 people and generating about $350 million in revenue.