Martin is a plastic engineer technologist who built his first mechanical recycling line for his father’s company 30 years ago in Germany. With over 15 years of experience in post-consumer recycling in Germany and over 18 years of experience in Canada, he is an industry pioneer.
Under Martin’s guidance, Listowel, Ont.-based EFS-plastics has diverted more than a billion pounds of scrap plastics into usable plastic resins, reducing the dependence of virgin resins from fossil fuels, diverting scrap from going to landfill, and furthering the objective of a circular economy.