Carmina de Young has been designing and producing garments since 2015. In 2020, it retooled and pivoted into producing medical isolation gowns for Canada, and CY Health was born. That same year, CY Health and its partners launched the LifeCycle PPE initiative.

CY Health and its LifeCycle PPE partners have a vision to create a circular economy of PPE products in Canada that will both strengthen their local economy with job creation and support domestic production of essential PPE.

Founded in Toronto in 2016, Li-Cycle is an industry-leading lithium-ion battery resource recovery company on a mission to leverage its innovative Spoke & Hub technologies to provide a customer-centric, end-of-life solution for lithium-ion batteries, while creating a secondary supply of critical battery materials.