It's in your car tires and the roads you drive on. It bonds the wood particles in your desk. It coats the apples and fancy cheeses you eat for lunch. Wear lipstick? It's in that, too. It's also scribbled in the pages of your child's colouring book and helps set a romantic tone for dinner when that same child is visiting grandma. From crayons to candles, wax is everywhere, but few of us realize how much it touches our daily lives. "The global market for wax is almost $10 billion, so that's nothing to sneeze at," says David Harris Kolada, vice-president of alliances and market development at Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), which supports the commercialization of Canadian clean technologies.
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