{"id":24030,"date":"2021-03-09T21:35:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/regional\/burlington-company-wins-funding-to-develop-a-new-way-of-recycling-textiles\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T20:17:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:17:27","slug":"burlington-company-wins-funding-to-develop-a-new-way-of-recycling-textiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/burlington\/burlington-company-wins-funding-to-develop-a-new-way-of-recycling-textiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Burlington company wins funding to develop a new way of recycling textiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Jonathan Wilkinson, announced the four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/government-of-canada-supports-innovative-made-in-canada-solutions-to-plastic-waste-822588086.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">winners of the latest Canadian Plastics Innovation Challenge last week<\/a>\u00a0who are looking for a better way to recycle textiles; including Met-Tech Inc. in Burlington.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is part of the Government of Canada\u2019s action plan to achieve zero plastic waste by 2030, which includes a ban on single-use plastics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Met-Tech Inc. will receive up to $150,000 toward developing their solutions to address plastic waste. Their plan includes developing a low-cost process to recycle more textile waste such as clothing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The Government of Canada is pleased to support made-in-Canada solutions to plastic waste and pollution. Small businesses are key partners in achieving Canada&#8217;s vision of a zero-plastic-waste future by 2030. By working together, we can create a cleaner future, while growing the economy and creating good jobs,&#8221; said Minister Wilkinson in a statement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Canadians throw away about 3 million tonnes of plastic waste each year. This is the equivalent of throwing away about 570 full garbage bags every minute.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Canadian Plastics Innovation Challenges are part of the Innovative Solutions Canada program. Innovative Solutions Canada has launched 15 plastics challenges so far, giving out almost $19 million to support Canadian innovators and small businesses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/government-of-canada-supports-innovative-made-in-canada-solutions-to-plastic-waste-822588086.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Jonathan Wilkinson, announced the four winners of the latest Canadian Plastics Innovation Challenge last week\u00a0who are looking for a better way to recyc...","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":24031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8065],"tags":[866,143,891,2403,19,20,6647,6123,5826,3768,3155],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/brian-yurasits-IvWEUvMwmlg-unsplash-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28628,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030\/revisions\/28628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}