2019-10-17 19:35:14
The federal government is helping fund the University of Waterloo’s development of thin structured wood-plastic composites.
Natural Resources Canada’s Clean Growth Program is providing $800,000 to the Ontario university to advance the project, which aims to convert forestry waste materials into bio-products for use in construction, automotive and packing applications.
Tizazu Mekonnen, associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo, said they are grateful for the federal support.
“In a world where the dynamic challenges of the plastic industry are associated with severe environmental pollution, resource scarcity or depletion concerns and the health and safety risk of some plastics and additives are testing the earth’s limits and our standards for human well-being, it is crucial that government supports research and development efforts in a way that provides sustainable solutions and local resource utilization and avoids health and safety, and pollution concerns,” he said in the release.
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