ChopValue Advances Circular Economy, Diverts 200M Chopsticks from Landfills

Antananarivo, 2 April, 7:45 a.m. – End of work. The Toamasina waste sorting and recovery centre is completely completed. This infrastructure with a treatment capacity of 60 tons of waste per day is waiting more than to be inaugurated, says the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Max Fontaine. It was on the margins of the opening of the East African Workshop on Waste Management and Circular Economy, this Tuesday. All the equipmen…

ChopValue Advances Circular Economy, Diverts 200M Chopsticks from Landfills

The best way to keep a landfill clean is to prevent waste from ever reaching it. By minimizing the need for new raw materials, which often require energy-intensive methods to extract, the circular economy can lower the carbon footprint of production. This is the business model of Vancouver’s ChopValue. The B.C.-based circular product solutions manufacturer is behind an urban harvesting approach that has diverted over 200 million chopsticks from …