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Laska Paré turns coffee cup lids into soap dishes. No, she’s not a magician. This 33-year-old started Flipside Plastics as a circular economic enterprise, recycling plastics on Vancouver Island.
VICTORIA -- The B.C. government is supporting local micro-recycling facilities by creating the $5-million CleanBC Plastics Action Fund. Shipping used plastics off Vancouver Island to be recycled didn’t seem like a sustainable model for the founder of Victoria-based Flipside Plastics. The small start-up has secured $50,000 in funding under the new provincial initiative for an eight-month pilot project to turn used plastics into new products. “The time, money and energy for the shipping back and forth (of plastic) doesn’t seem like it would support a healthy, sustainable community ...
Meaghan McDonald, founder of Salt Legacy, an eco-friendly business that takes old sails from sailboats and turns them into new products, at her sailboat the Spyhop at Fishermans Wharf. ADRIAN LAM, TIMES COLONIST Becoming a One Planet region is a mammoth challenge, but one we have to meet unless we prefer to leave it to Mother Nature to do it for us (and to us). But that is not going to be pretty! The key to becoming a One Planet Region is in principle very simple; use and consume a lot less stuff and energy — especially fossil fuels — and produce much less waste. Here in Victoria the...