The Canadian who searches in the trash from around the world

In front of a dirty disposable layer for baby, I bet you say: "Ouach!"»»

TomSzaky says, "Wow!»»

Maybe he clogs his nose as we all do, but faced with a full pampers-just like in front of a cigarette megot, glasses of glasses thrown in the trash or fabrics with enigmatic fiber names dedicated to dumpsters- he sees the opportunity to find a solution.

Born in Hungary, who arrived in Toronto at the age of 5, now living in New Jersey - he studied in Princeton -, TomSzaky is really one of the entrepreneurs who won in the world by greedily kissing the challenges ofcircular economy.

You may know one of its babies, Loop, a company already present in the United States, France and the United Kingdom, which has just arrived in Canada and which allows brands sold in supermarkets to use containersinstructions.It is tested in Toronto currently, in partnership with Loblaw and other known brands, such as Heinz or Häagen-Dazs."It's just over a week ago and we have exceeded our a month's goals," said Mr..Szaky in telephone interview.

Basically: we order online, it is delivered by Loop, the customer consumes the content - soup, ketchup, juice, etc..-, and the container is then taken up by a delivery system that will bring everything to cleaning.Then the containers will return to the brands, which will fill them again, will sell them.You get the picture.

And it will be in Montreal at the beginning of 2022, told me the giant of the valuation of the trash.

Because it's not just Loop in the life of the 39 -year -old entrepreneur.

There is also Terracycle, his first company, doomed to the transformation of waste.

His first product, at the very beginning, in 2001, was the kitchen waste, of which he did vermicomposting, sold in recycled plastic bottles.

But today, it is made much further in the recovery and transformation of long unexpected waste, such as dirty disposable layers - whose teams make plastics - and cigarette butts, from which they also extract plastics fromfilter, while sending the rest of the tobacco to the compost.

Terracycle also works to pick up and transform plastic bottles around the world.Because the company is everywhere, from Tokyo to Trenton, Ontario, present in around twenty countries.

With laboratories everywhere, but mainly in New Jersey - in a dumping ground -, Terracycle constantly does research.His business model: wait for a major actor to ask him for his help.The company does not seek to sell its green solutions.She finds solutions for those who want it.In large scale. Ses partenaires s’appellent Walgreens, Home Hardware, Procter & Gamble… La liste est longue.

A next project among several: to enhance waste as a media of information.The contents of the layers speaks volumes about the health of babies, just like worn oil on the condition of the engines, explains TomSzaky.You might as well take advantage of everything that can be revealed.

Another way explored: the LOOP system for material reuse in a loop, but applied to fabric layers and children's clothing.

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It quickly comes to the United States and the United Kingdom.In both cases, in partnership with very large companies.

So we forget the small community service for cleaning layers in fabric.We think of large brands sold in supermarkets.

With cleaning, transport and reuse systems in the case of layers.And simply a silver deposit system, such as an instruction, in the case of baby clothes.Deposit that we recover, of course, by reporting the clothes that have become too small.

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Terracycle is not a newcomer to the world of recycling and recycling of waste.It was founded in 2001 while the youngSzaky was a student in Princeton.It was during a trip with university friends in Montreal, at that time, that he first saw verses transform organic waste into compost and that he had the idea ofMake the first product of your waste recovery company.

Today, around a third of the company's work affects industrial waste, and the rest, our everyday consumption waste.

The next challenge is currently happening, you will have guessed it, on the side of masks, gloves and all the disposable equipment used as part of the fight against COVVI-19."There is a whole new flow of waste there," notes M.Szaky.

Terracycle takes care of it.

But the real challenge, 20 years after the discovery of vermicomposting, is no longer concentrated at the quest for new flows of waste, new gold in the trash cans.The new border is large -scale logistics, the quest for solutions that work in large and, above all, very, very large.

Loop, for example, works on a large scale now in the United Kingdom with the Giant Tesco, in France with Carrefour, and in the United States with in particular Walgreens and Burger King!Major actors.

Currently, explains M.Szaky, il y a un éveil remarquable des individus face à la nécessité de produire moins de déchets ainsi que de récupérer et de réutiliser les objets.Consumer membership is therefore less difficult to seek than before.The reception of Loop in Toronto is an example, as is the proliferation of grocery stores offering products without packaging.

But the world of recovery and reuse is also complicated, and financial challenges are not trivial.

The price of oil is low, there are therefore fewer reasons to want to recover its derivatives differently.Also, the raw material is no longer what it was 20 years ago.There is less waste than before, they are lighter, packaging is often made with more complex, more difficult to work, to decompose materials, to decompose.(Besides, M.Szaky trouve que les emballages devraient se simplifier, pas devenir de plus en plus multicouches et multimatériaux.))

Countries that bought other people have become more demanding.We saw it, in Quebec, when China started to refuse our waste.

Quand je lui demande si l’entreprise entend aussi prendre de nouveaux chemins pour intégrer son travail dans des systèmes de réduction de la pollution plus vastes, plus globaux, TomSzaky répond que non.

"We want to focus on a single problem and excel," he said.So Loop does not come with an green transport guarantee, for example.

It is up to the partners to be substantial then.In France, Carrefour is looking for a solution for "green" delivery.

And can the consumer do more to better recycle?

Should we buy everything used?At Terracycle, offices all over the planet are fitted out and furnished with recycled materials, used objects.

"In fact, no," replied Mr..Szaky.

"What it takes more than anything is less buying.»»