“This could mean making products like plastic food packaging stronger and more easily recyclable. The grant to Nova Chemicals was announced in late January as part of the Strategic Innovation Fund, a $1.26-billion, five-year business growth measure that was unveiled in last year’s federal budget. Ethylene is one of the main substances in polyethylene; the expanded plant will allow Nova Chemicals to produce 431,000 additional tonnes of polyethylene a year. An estimated 8 million tonnes of plastic garbage ends up in the world’s oceans each year, with single-use plastic food containers among the biggest culprits. “So limiting single-use plastics gets tweets and producing more of them gets $35 million,” said Stewart.

Source: thestar February 15, 2018 14:15 UTC