We at Merlin Plastics not only believe in the cause of reducing carbon emissions but also continue to be a strong advocate for stopping climate and environmental damage worldwide. It is through our company motto: “Recycling together for our future” where we will be able to help these goals.
In doing so, we not only take waste from a wide variety of places across the world to recycle post-consumer products but to ensure that products get properly recycled rather than end up in landfills or anywhere else like the ocean, forests, roads, etc. As long as the product has a label indicating where it came from, what it was used for, is not hazardous, and has gone through proper sortation, we will take it clean or dirty.
We are dedicated and committed to providing environmental services by recycling discarded packaging in an environmentally sound, economically efficient, and socially responsible fashion.
Today at Merlin Plastics, we are striving to reduce our carbon footprint as much as humanely possible. In doing so, we have already achieved most of these goals.
We have taken steps to use non-environmentally harmful equipment, machines, and items.
Below are examples of changes we have made to help reduce our carbon footprint:
- We are phasing out gas-powered machines and moving towards using environmentally friendly, electrically powered machines that operate on electricity rather than gas, diesel, or oil.
- About 99% of our processing machines today are electrically powered.
- Some machines are steam-powered, producing steam rather than harmful vapors and odors.
- We use vacuums instead of air compressors and blowers for our machines to ensure that bi-products, waste, and other plastic materials do not end up outside of our location and instead keep them inside, where we then find a way to recycle and safely dispose of materials that cannot be recycled but put back into the ground, i.e., like dirt.
- We use various pressure washers (Electric) to clean our machines.
- We have incorporated a plan to reduce the use of propane forklifts and move towards using e-forklifts (electrical forklifts)
- We only use electrical lifts and machines to reach high places.
- We are rapidly moving to a more digital format, archiving our files digitally rather than keeping mainly paper storage.
- We are constantly communicating with the Ministry of Environment and Environment Canada.
- We use battery-powered electrical blowers, vacuums, and devices.
- We have teams constantly in place to ensure that our drains, pathways, lawns etc., are clean and prevent contamination of the environment.
Our 2025 Environmentally Friendly Goals
- Continue to reduce our Carbon Emissions to net zero by:
- Moving the rest of our machinery to zero-emissions, environment-friendly, electric-powered
- Use electric eco-friendly-zero-emissions shunt trucks
- Use of electric company vehicles and phase out gas-powered vehicles
- Continue to operate in an environmentally friendly manner
- Help not only recycle North American post-consumer products but also global products.
Please watch this CBC video (clip) for proof of how post-consumer products get recycled at Merlin Plastics!!
Full video can be found here from CBC (All credit goes to CBC for the video):