At a large warehouse full of roaring recycling machines, Chloé Dubois stands beside a sack full of thousands of tiny plastic pellets.

Previously fishing ropes and nets, the pellets are now giving new life to marine plastic waste choking the oceans that surround Canada.

Dubois is the co-founder and executive director of the Ocean Legacy Foundation, a British Columbia non-profit that operates what it calls Canada's first marine waste recycling program.

"Plastic pollution is one of the biggest challenges facing our time," she said. "We really need to conserve the biodiversity we have in Canada as well as internationally. So we really need to be better at managing these materials."

But now, government cuts are putting the program at risk.

While Ocean Legacy gets some revenue from selling

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