EFS-plastics: Giving new life to recycled materials since 2007

‘Sometimes it’s not all about money, it’s the ethics of why we do what we do’

August 31, 2023 @ 9:00 amListowel Banner, News

Since 2007, EFS-plastics has been processing recycled raw materials into high-quality post-consumer resin (PCR), a substance that can be utilized in the manufacturing of many other plastic-moulded items. EFS permanently set up shop in Listowel’s south end in 2012, and diverts an estimated 70 million pounds of plastic from landfills every year. EFS employees Jeff Wood, Abe Giesbrecht and Trevor Becker pose in front of the recycled raw material bales that the company uses to creates its resellable product. (Dan McNee Photo)

LISTOWEL – It has been documented that Canadians throw away an estimated three million tonnes of plastic waste every single year. Of that, only nine per cent is recycled, while the rest ends up in landfills. If that statistic doesn’t make you uncomfortable, it definitely should. Statistics like those must have made Josef Vogt uncomfortable,…

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