A new recycling centre designed to collect wayward plastics from the ocean has opened on northern Vancouver Island.
The new"ocean plastic depot" is located at the 7 Mile Landfill and Recycling Centre off Highway 19 between Port McNeill and Port Alice, B.C.
The plastic collection site is the fourth of its kind in B.C., and the third one to open on Vancouver Island, with other locations in Ucluelet and CumberlandPlans are also in the works to open two more recycling centres in Prince Rupert and the Lower Sunshine Coast. The plastic that is collected at each depot is later sent to the Ocean Legacy processing centre at Steveston Harbour, B.C., where it undergoes further sorting and cleaning before it is recycled.
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