“We will be working with a recycling company called TerraCycle, and to make our project a success, we need not only the school but the community’s help,” Carlson said.
TerraCycle is a company that takes used packaging and other products that would otherwise end up in landfills and reuses them to create new materials and products, also known as “upcycling.”
A shelter volunteer turned the humane society on to TerraCycle, which works with more than 100 major brands in the U.S. and 22 other countries to take the packaging from many common, but difficult-to-recycle products and turn it into affordable, innovative products items such as lunch boxes, office supplies, fertilizer, clothing, jewelry and more (view products on
dwellsmart.com)
There are companies that do this, too. TerraCycle, a global firm based in Trenton, NJ, is focused on recycling everything from worm poop (into fertilizer) to cigarette butts (into plastic pellets). It upcycles and recycles traditionally non-recycable waste (including drink pouches, chip bags, and tooth brushes) into a large variety of consumer products.
The assembly, which is open to parents, will feature a Rainbow recycling truck and a raffle of donated products from TerraCycle. Guests will include members from the Theo Lacy Jail Sustainability Team, a member from the Board of Supervisors, representatives from Rainbow and Councilman Jim Katapodis.
Juice pouches, energy bar wrappers and potato chip bags are all items that can’t be recycled traditionally. Instead, the school sends such waste to a New Jersey business called TerraCycle, which takes the rubbish and repurposes it into other products.
Long Beach Unified School District board member Diana Craighead applauds the efforts of the Longfellow community to be environmentally sustainable.
New Delhi, April 14 -- Hackensack University Medical Center is the first hospital in the country to partner with recycling pioneer TerraCycle to keep difficult-to-recycle items such as keyboards and mice, diaper packaging, chip bags and writing utensils out of landfills. TerraCycle will recycle the items into affordable, eco-friendly consumer products and industrial applications.
Hackensack University Medical Center is the first hospital in the country to partner with recycling pioneer TerraCycle to keep difficult-to-recycle items such as keyboards and mice, diaper packaging, chip bags and writing utensils out of landfills. TerraCycle will recycle the items into affordable, eco-friendly consumer products and industrial applications.
Eating through a lot of Easter candy? Make all those candy wrappers earn money for
Elmwood Park Zoo by dropping them off at the Admissions counter.
The wrappers will be sent to Terracycle, which converts waste into a "wide variety of products and materials," according to their website. Waste is upcycled or recycled to create new products.
Eating through a lot of Easter candy? Make all those candy wrappers earn money for
Elmwood Park Zoo by dropping them off at the Admissions counter.
The wrappers will be sent to Terracycle, which converts waste into a "wide variety of products and materials," according to their website. Waste is upcycled or recycled to create new products.
