Imagine in our whole world a lot of plastics is being produced. We make about 400—more than 400 million metric tonnes of plastic per each year. So idea is to reduce the plastic use and utilize some waste-based resources to implement the new innovation in the area of bio-based materials.

The goal is to improve the quality of the life by reducing greenhouse gas emission as well as utilizing more and more renewable food stock-based material.

This is something called coffee chaff. It's the skin of the coffee beans, and was typically being just discarded. So a technology was discovered where you could actually use this, and you convert that into a very unique ring, and this now goes into a typical Keurig pod. It's compatible with Keurig. You now can throw this in your organic waste bin. It's compostable. It's on shop shelves today across Canada.

This collaboration has been great because it allows us to utilize the resources here at the BDDC, that we can then take at our level and scale them up to pilot scale and commercial levels.

We expect that we'll continue this collaboration, and it can help a lot to develop someeco-friendly alternative, and that will help our world and help to our Canadians, and that is what we are looking for.