Shredding the Status Quo: UNBC and Northern BC MakerCollective team up in new space

The University of Northern British Columbia has teamed up with the Northern BC MakerCollective to launch a hands-on plastic recycling project that’s turning waste into opportunity literally. Instead of tossing plastics, the project collects materials from campus, ships them downtown to the MakerCollective space, and then gets to work.

We’re talking shredding, melting, and reshaping all transforming yesterday’s waste into brand-new products, and that’s just grazing the surface of what the facility offers. Learn more here.