Recipients of the grants and contributions funding for advancing a circular economy for plastics in Canada
Backgrounder
Since 2018, the Government of Canada has provided over $3.2 million to support circular solutions, including for the packaging, agriculture, textiles, automotive, construction, recycling infrastructure, and healthcare sectors. Environment and Climate Change Canada is contributing an additional $2 million funding for advancing a circular economy for plastics in Canada toward 12 projects for organizations to develop solutions to address challenges by theme, through various funding streams, including textiles, plastic beverage containers, reuse, life cycle inventory, restaurant, and others. These efforts will identify new opportunities, facilitate collaboration and information sharing, and encourage the adoption of circular solutions.
| Textiles stream recipients: | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Location | Project description | Funding |
| Ocean Diagnostics Inc. | Victoria, British Columbia | The project will collect and integrate the latest understanding on microfibre pollution sources, pathways, and effects nationally and globally. It will also highlight the successes and progress of key stakeholders and identify short- and long-term opportunities available to Canada to reduce the generation, movement, and loss of microfibres from processes and products in homes and industry. | $50,000 |
| Fashion Takes Action | East York, Ontario | The Canadian Circular Textiles Consortium is an extension of Fashion Takes Action's work to advance circularity through a multi-stakeholder approach, using a collective impact framework. The project will help reduce duplication of resources and foster partnerships among stakeholders who share a vision of a new circular textile economy for Canada. | $625,540 |
| National Association for Charitable Textile Recycling (NACTR) | Aurora, Ontario | This project will research and bring to the forefront solutions to increase textiles and household goods diversion from landfill, increasing recovery of plastics and other materials from waste streams. | $97,000 |
| Plastic beverage container stream recipients: | |||
| Canadian Plastics Pact (CPP) | Ottawa, Ontario | This project will develop a baseline for plastic packaging that is generated and then either disposed, reused, or recycled by Canada's industrial, commercial, and institutional sector. It will also help identify opportunities and barriers that might exist to better increase recycling from this sector. | $100,000 |
| Circular Innovation Council (CIC) | Toronto, Ontario | This project will determine performance information by using verified data to accurately baseline the generation, diversion, and disposal of packaging and printed paper materials, including plastic packaging and plastic beverage containers in the industrial, commercial, and institutional sector, including away from home. | $102,000 |
| Reuse stream recipients: | |||
| Circular Innovation Council (CIC) | Toronto, Ontario | The Circular Innovation Council (CIC) will be leading the delivery of pre-competitive, place-based pilots across Canada from 2023 to 2025. Working with a variety of stakeholders for each pilot, CIC aims to test various reuse models and design criteria focused on the beverage and food service sector. While each pilot test will operate separately, learnings from each will be transferred to the next. The objective of these reuse pilots is to showcase and test the art of the possible while delivering on-the-ground replicable, scalable, and permanent programs. | $305,000 |
| Canadian Plastics Pact (CPP) | Ottawa, Ontario | The purpose of this project is to engage and mobilize stakeholders to adopt ambitious upstream solutions. This work will also foster partnerships to pilot and scale reuse projects in targeted high-impact sectors (for example, food and beverage). | $315,000 |
| Lifecycle inventory stream recipients: | |||
| Western University of Ottawa | London North, Ontario | This project will review the state-of-the-art technologies for converting plastics into chemicals and fuels using pyrolysis and gasification-related technologies. They will examine a typical Ontario plastic waste stream using pyrolysis to develop inputs for life-cycle modeling to better understand the technology's mass and energy balances, including carbon and other relevant emissions, to evaluate the potential of Canadian industrial adoption. | $100,000 |
| Restaurant stream recipients: | |||
| Ocean Wise Conservation Association | Vancouver East, British Columbia | The objectives of this project are to develop a list of single-use and unnecessary plastics (SUUP) commonly used in quick-service restaurants; provide insight into the common disposal fates of the SUUPs; and complete a study of the fate of SUUPs disposed of in restaurants. | $100,795 |
| Conseil régional de l'environnement et du développement durable de l'Outaouais (CREDDO) | Gatineau, Quebec | The objective of the project is to accelerate the adoption of reusable and returnable food containers by businesses and organizations in Outaouais. | $104,526 |
| Other stream recipients: | |||
| York University | Humber River, Ontario | This project will develop an open-data standard for plastics of various categories, such as packaging, electronics, agriculture, transportation, tires, construction, aquaculture, single-use plastics, and textiles to provide a common framework for recording and sharing data across Canada. | $144,581 |
| Organisation Bleue | Outremont, Quebec | This project enhances a method to collect, organize, and publish data related to the prevalence of plastic products in the environment. It will develop a GIS map to publish data on the prevalence of plastic products collected during 63 events from 2019 to 2023, spanning from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of St. Lawrence (i.e., Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador). | $50,000 |
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