The Ruidoso News is launching a company-wide recycle campaign. Even though the newspaper's parent has an existing corporate mandate that recycles all newsprint products, General Manager Marianne Mohr is initiating a broader initiative to support the TerraCycle "Brigades" sponsored by Coyote Howling
The Ruidoso News, through its offices at 104 Park Avenue, will provide collection receptacles to staff and clients. The list of products that can be put to good use through Coyote Howling's Terracycle program is large.
While Orange County does not recycle this polystyrene #6 cup, Wilson has identified a market with specialty recycler Terra Cycle that remanufactures the cups into dog bowls and contributes 2 cents a cup to charities chosen by those sending in the cups.
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
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If you feel guilty when you throw away a butter tub, deodorant tube or other trash, check out some of the recycling programs from the Trenton, N.J.-based company TerraCycle.cigarette_butts
The company has 40 programs for collecting and recycling everything from candy wrappers and juice pouches to Solo cups and tape dispensers. The trash is turned into new products such as park benches and backpacks, some of which can be found at Target and Walmart.
One of the programs, known as The Cigarette Waste Brigade, is run by TerraCycle and the Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. Members of the public are asked to collect extinguished cigarettes, filters, loose tobacco pouches, outer plastic packaging, inner foil packaging, rolling paper and ash, which are turned into plastic pallets and other products. (The cardboard boxes are not accepted since they can be recycled through municipal programs.)
When it’s time to send in the waste, a free shipping label can be printed out from TerraCycle web site.
The company was founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky when he was a Princeton University student. TerraCycle began producing organic fertilizer by packaging liquified “worm poop” in used soda bottles.
More than 40 million people nationwide participate in the recycling programs, diverting more than 2.5 billion pieces of waste from landfills, according to a company news release.
