Sinds enkele maanden is Hoorn een Fruittella-snoepverpakking recyclingpunt rijker. Initiatiefneemster van dit recyclingpunt is Afra Geurs. Zij zamelt met de lege snoepverpakkingen geld in voor de Cat Shelter in Limburg.
De Snoep Brigade is een gezamenlijk initiatief van Fruittella en TerraCycle. Consumenten kunnen met dit programma hun lege snoepverpakkingen gratis recyclen, als beloning hiervoor krijgen ze een financiële bijdrage waarmee een goed doel naar eigen keuze kan worden gesteund. Zo zamelt de familie Geurs dus in voor de Cat Shelter in Limburg.
De Cat Shelter is een organisatie die als doel heeft om hulpbehoevende katjes op te vangen en die extra verzorging te bieden. Als lid van de Snoep Brigade wil de familie Geurs de Cat Shelter ondersteunen “Op dit moment zamelen we alleen met ons gezin in, maar we doen het wel met hart en ziel.” De snoepverpakkingen worden op dit moment bij de familie thuis ingezameld.
De Cat Shelter is geen gewoon asiel. De katjes worden allemaal ondergebracht bij pleeggezinnen. Vanuit de pleeggezinnen worden de kittens uiteindelijk geadopteerd. Voor een goede verzorging van de kittens kan de Cat Shelter giften goed gebruiken. Daar doet Afra Geurs dan ook graag aan mee: “Het is misschien niet altijd veel wat we naar TerraCycle opsturen, maar die ene euro die we aan de Cat Shelter kunnen geven is het waard.”
Inmiddels zijn er verspreid over heel Nederland teams actief die op deze manier een concrete bijdrage leveren aan het milieu en de maatschappij. Alle ingezamelde snoepverpakkingen worden weer verwerkt tot nieuwe duurzame grondstoffen en producten.
Through a partnership with the upcycle and recycle company TerraCycle, the Superior company has provided 50 meals to people in need, made a donation to support Sandy Hook Elementary following the 2012 shootings there, and brought clean water to 11 adults in Third World countries for a year. Employees have also donated more than 700 eggs cartons since 2013 to a local farmer and about 50 used cell phones to the Red Cross.
Wertvolle Ressourcen können auf kreative Weise wiederverwendet werden. Wie? Zum Beispiel indem daraus ein neues Bürodesign entsteht. Türen werden zu Tischplatten, aus Schallplatten oder Korken wird ein Sichtschutz zum angrenzenden Kollegen und aus Shampooflaschen werden Raumtrenner.
With the help of a program called TerraCycle, St. Kate’s students are flexing their creativity and caring for the earth all at once. According to their website, TerraCycle is “a highly-awarded, international upcycling and recycling company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and repurposes the material into affordable, innovative products.” Materials like old toys, Capri Sun pouches, and material that isn’t fit for its original purpose are being saved from a trip to the landfill and instead finding their way into participating companies and institutions, including St. Kate’s, so that they can be made into new products.
Your family will probably be generating a little more trash than usual over the next few weeks as you make your way through unwrapping your
favorite Halloween treats. Instead of tossing all those wrappers in the rubbish bin, use
Terracycle’s Snack Wrapper Zero Waste Box and turn your trash into recycled plastic products like park benches or watering cans. The boxes, which are available in three sizes, come with a prepaid return shipping label, so just fill them up and send them on their merry soon-to-be recycled way.
Printed on woodfree paper in a fresh design with DYI projects for all ages,
Make Garbage Great has broad appeal—it’s smart and instructive, playful and crafty, environmentally contentious and inspiring. With craft projects ranging from a simple, folded coin purse from a CapriSun pouch to a beautiful pallet coffee table, the colloquial voices of Tom Szaky and Albe Zakes make the engaging information, little known facts, compelling graphics, and sustainable suggestions accessible for teachers, parents, DIY artists, and even young readers.
Fully titled Make Garbage Great: The TerraCycle Family Guide to a Zero-Waste Lifestyle this book is AWESOME! It's a large hardbound, 224 page, book. You will find fascinating information, little-known facts, awesome graphics, and colorful images on every page.
“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” as the saying goes. For TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky, it was more than a saying—it was also his business plan. Founded in 2003, TerraCycle takes your garbage—everything and anything you could throw away or recycle—and transforms it into consumer products like cutting boards, reusable grocery bags, and even yard fencing.
TerraCycle, Inc. started in 2001 when CEO and Founder Tom Szaky dropped out of Princeton University after his freshman year to sell liquefied worm poop in a reused soda bottle, for fertilizer purposes. Despite having little brand recognition and only rudimentary manufacturing operations, Szaky managed to get major big-box retailers like Walmart and The Home Depot to start testing the product in 2004. By 2006, TerraCycle's worm-poop-based plant foods were being sold nationally across the United States and Canada in Walmart, Target, The Home Depot and Whole Foods Market retail stores.
