Ever wonder what it takes to take the road less travelled?
Want to start something new that makes a difference? How can you take the road less travelled? What are some of the lessons learned from PECO’s first four years? These questions and more are part of a podcast featuring PECO and the takeaways that might inspire to dream big and take the Road Less Travelled.
Our year with The Body Shop: A multi-store collaborative engagement
Since early 2023, PECO has been working together with various store teams within the Vancouver area collecting and sorting over 200 pounds of empty product containers, household plastic waste and shoreline plastics that were incorporated into unique art pieces.
Plastic Crisis 2022: Top 5 Things We Learned
This is an annual review capturing and highlighting the Plastics Crisis: what have we learned as a planet in the past year and where are we going in the years ahead. It is this more in depth research that helps guide policy and direction at PECO.
As Beautiful as Marble - Innovating Soft Plastic Recycling
All the colour comes from household plastic waste from grocery aisles. By crafting our products in this way, the visual appeal makes the viewer see the piece as aesthetically pleasing rather than as a piece of recycled trash.
PECO collaborates on a big scale with Art Works commission for Wisteria Place.
Wisteria Place, a new senior’s residence in Richmond, BC has a feature piece that incorporates plastic waste from its construction as well as from the residents-to-be.
Plastics Crisis: where we stand 2021
This article is a synopsis of the plastics crisis in a "2021 nutshell", the consumer, the companies selling and the municipalities struggling to cope with ever-increasing crisis on our doorstep.
We are making a big problem a little smaller
The process PECO uses o melting sot plastic waste is, in itsel, making a massive problem smaller.