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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 ...