Craftsman Collision has received two municipal awards for an automotive recycling program that has diverted more than 690,000 lb. of waste from landfills.
The City of North Vancouver presented Craftsman Collision with a 2026 Living City Award in the zero-waste category on June 15. A city report cited the company’s waste-diversion work and its collection of more than 13,000 plastic bumpers in 2025.
The City of Burnaby also named Craftsman’s three Burnaby bodyshops recipients of a 2026 Environmental Star in the business-stewardship category. The city said Craftsman was the first B.C. bodyshop network to establish an automotive plastics recycling program on a large scale.
Both awards recognized a program launched by Craftsman and Burnaby-based Reclaim Plastics in 2019. The program began at 20 Craftsman locations in the Lower Mainland and has since expanded across Vancouver Island, the Interior and northern B.C. An expansion into Alberta is underway.
Participating shops separate damaged bumpers, headlamps, fender liners, underbody shields, door handles and windshields from other waste. Reclaim Plastics collects the materials, removes contaminants and separates the plastics by polymer before processing them for recycling.
Craftsman and Reclaim Plastics have diverted more than 313,000 kg or 690,000 lb. of automotive waste from B.C. landfills. The program collected more than 13,000 plastic bumpers in 2025, equivalent to more than five tonnes per month.
“Let’s do more,” said Mark Greenberg, vice-president of business development at Craftsman during his speech at the Living City Award.
Founded in Vancouver in 1977, Craftsman Collision is a family-owned collision repair network with more than 40 locations in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
