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Sustainability

Nova joins ocean plastic effort

by Alex Tullo
August 31, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 35

A photo of bags of plastic pellets that have been recycled.
Credit: Ecoplast
Ecoplast is an Austrian recycler, mostly of plastic film.

Canada’s Nova Chemicals is joining its sister company, Austrian polyolefin maker Borealis, in Project Stop, a program meant to promote a circular economy in Southeast Asia and prevent plastic waste from getting into the ocean. Nova will invest nearly $2 million over three years and support an ongoing project in Muncar, a fishing town in Indonesia. Separately, Borealis has completed its purchase of Austrian recycler Ecoplast, which processes about 35,000 metric tons of polyethylene annually.

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