A Saanichton company that uses milk jugs, laundry detergent containers and other blue-box plastics to make synthetic lumber has won the largest single contract in its 12-year history.

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My neighbour collects the plastics for our neighbourhood and takes them to Syntal.  You could do that for your neighbourhood!  It would keep a local business running and it would eliminate the need to ship all the plastics to Vancouver for recycling!