REGINA LEADER-POST, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2001

Recycling pays off

By Leader-Post Staff

A research and development facility in Regina recently won an environmental award for creating two products out of car waste, keeping some 12 million kilograms of waste out of landfills each year.

XPotential Products Inc. won the Saskatchewan Waste Reduction Council's corporate leadership award for manufacturing parking curbs and posts out of the waste.

Before the company created the two products, non-metal car parts like seat covers and plastics were destined for the garbage because there was no alternative use for them.

"The pilot plant in Regina is largely responsible for getting this through the starting gates and now we're recycling material that everywhere else in the world is a waste product," said James Zonneveld, vice president of XPotential. The company's parking curbs, made from a combination of the car waste and recycled plastics, last 75 to 100 years where cement parking curbs have a life of only five to seven years.

Its posts, which can be used in fences or retaining walls, replace lumber posts and are also made out of the same combination of car waste and recycled plastics.

XPotential's head office is in Winnipeg.

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