Parking lot at new Sobeys in Timberlea largely made from recycled plastics

ASobeys in Timberlea, N.S., says it has one of the first parking lots in Canada made almost entirely ofpost-consumer plastics diverted from local landfills.

The amount of recycled plastics used in the parking lot asphalt mixtureequates to more than six million plastic shopping bags.

In a news release, the company said the initiative promotesplastic reduction and reuse.

Sobeys worked with a Colchester County, N.S., company called Goodwood Plastic Productsto create the new asphalt pavement mixture.

The greeninitiative is part of Sobeys plans to remove plastic bags from all its grocery stores in Canada by the end of January 2020.The chain said removing the bags from its 255 locations will take 225 million plastic grocery bags out of circulation each year.

Earlier in the year, Goodwood Plastic Products paved a parking lot in Burnside, N.S., with asphalt that included two tonnes of material made from plastic shopping bags.

The Timberlea Sobeyswill also have a picnic bench on site made withGoodwood Plastic Productsthat uses recycled plastics.

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