Beekman 1802, the Schoharie County-based makers of artisanal goat milk-based products, announced a new partnership with TerraCycle to make all of its product packaging recyclable throughout the United States.   Participants in the program are invited to send in all empty Beekman 1802 product packaging to TerraCycle, where the packaging is cleaned and melted into hard plastic that can be remolded to make new recycled products, such as park benches and picnic tables, according to a media release.   “Now more than ever, consumers don’t want to sacrifice the planet for their personal well-being,” said Tom Szaky, TerraCycle CEO and founder. “Together, Beekman 1802 and TerraCycle will keep as many of these products out of landfills as possible, allowing consumers to keep both themselves and the planet clean.”   Sign up at terracycle.com/en-US/brigades/beekman-1802 and mail in packaging using a prepaid shipping label.   Sarah Eames, staff writer, can be reached at seames@thedailystar.com or 607-441-7213. Follow her @DS_SarahE on Twitter.

Beekman 1802, the Schoharie County-based makers of artisanal goat milk-based products, announced a new partnership with TerraCycle to make all of its product packaging recyclable throughout the United States. Participants in the program are invited to send in all empty Beekman 1802 product packaging to TerraCycle, where the packaging is cleaned and melted into hard plastic that can be remolded to make new recycled products, such as park benches and picnic tables, according to a media release. “Now more than ever, consumers don’t want to sacrifice the planet for their personal well-being,” said Tom Szaky, TerraCycle CEO and founder. “Together, Beekman 1802 and TerraCycle will keep as many of these products out of landfills as possible, allowing consumers to keep both themselves and the planet clean.” Sign up at terracycle.com/en-US/brigades/beekman-1802 and mail in packaging using a prepaid shipping label.

A Semana Lixo Zero, que tem programação até 1º novembro, em Porto Alegre e 13 cidades do RS, apresentou, na última quinta-feira, um painel transmitido pelo YouTube, mostrando o que é logística reversa, qual a importância e quais são os quatro projetos de lei tramitando atualmente na Câmara de Porto Alegre. A logística reversa é o procedimento que permite o consumidor retornar à empresa um produto após seu consumo, de forma que o fabricante possibilite um descarte correto.

Itens como canetas, lápis, marcadores e lapiseiras são utilizados diariamente por uma grande quantidade de pessoas, mas você já refletiu sobre o que acontece com esses materiais depois que são jogados no lixo? Pensando nisso, há oito anos a Faber-Castell, em parceria com a TerraCycle, empresa especializada em soluções ambientais, lançou um Programa Nacional de Reciclagem para instrumentos de escrita, possibilitando que esses resíduos tenham uma nova vida por meio da reciclagem.

Um programa de logística reversa criado em parceria com o TerraCycle permitiu que a Faber-Castell conseguisse coletar 2 milhões de instrumentos de escrita para reciclagem. A empresa alcançou a marca nesta semana, mesmo em meio à pandemia, em uma ação que reúne mais de 5 mil pontos de coleta, reduzindo de maneira significativa o impacto do setor de papelaria, que produz milhares de produtos todos os anos, principalmente na volta às aulas

Beautycyle is here my friends!!! In case you haven’t heard, Nordstrom has launched their Beautycycle initiative! The goal is to help customers create a zero waste beauty routine! Drop off your empty beauty packaging in the Beautycycle bins at any Nordstrom! Their ambition is to recycle 100 tons of empty containers by 2025!! So awesome!! Upping my beauty game for the upcoming holidays with Chanel from Nordstrom!!! Have you tried Chanel’s CC cream? Or healthy glow foundation? Their shimmery liquid eyeshadow is subtle & PERFECT! Nordstrom is my go-to for all things makeup! Charlotte Tilbury & MAC are a couple more brands I love that I get from Nordstrom too! When you’re ready, take advantage of the Beautycylce benefits!! I’m grateful for the opportunities to help make recycling easier! This is a fantastic way to do our part and Nordstrom is making it convenient! Click any photo below to shop! So glad you’re here!! XO!!  

Two more Nordstrom Local service hubs are opening soon in Los Angeles, which happens to be the retailer’s largest-volume metro area. The additions bring the Nordstrom Local count to five in L.A., and furthers the retailer’s evolving market strategy to bring greater conveniences to shoppers. The Nordstrom Local concept is designed to be a convenient service hub in neighborhoods where Nordstrom customers live and work, so trips to actual Nordstrom stores farther away can be avoided. Nordstrom Local provides such services as order pickups, returns, alterations, stylists and gift wrapping. It’s also a piece of the retailer’s overall market strategy to get closer to customers, get them more engaged, and provide faster deliveries and more seamless shopping experiences, channel to channel, such as enabling customers to pick up nordstrom.com, nordstromrack.com and HauteLook.com orders at Nordstrom Rack off-price stores. They’re not mini-versions of Nordstrom stores and there’s no merchandise displayed, aside from a handful of items in the back of the store by a touch-screen for online shopping, or what Nordstrom stylists have gathered to show clients coming in. The first Nordstrom Local opened on Melrose Avenue in L.A. three years ago. Subsequently, Nordstrom Locals opened in the Brentwood and downtown sections of L.A. Coming up in L.A., a 1,193-square-foot Nordstrom Local at 2043 Westcliff Drive in Newport Beach is opening on Nov. 6, and a 1,886-square-foot Nordstrom Local at 451 Manhattan Beach Boulevard in Manhattan Beach is opening in the coming months. There are also two Nordstrom Locals operating in New York City, in the West Village, at 13 Seventh Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets, and on the Upper East Side, at 1273 Third Avenue. Before the pandemic, the company’s executives said the plan was to roll out the local market strategy with Nordstrom Locals to other major markets, including Chicago, San Francisco, Miami and Dallas. The timing of that is unclear. “We don’t have anything to share about opening additional Nordstrom Local locations at this time, however our customers help us guide our journey and this is something we will continue to look at,” a Nordstrom spokeswoman told WWD.

Seattle, WA /PRNewswire/ - With the goal of being closer to customers to better serve them on their terms, leading fashion retailer Nordstrom is opening two additional Nordstrom Local service hubs in Newport Beach and Manhattan Beach. The 1,193 square foot Nordstrom Local Newport Beach (2043 Westcliff Drive) will open Friday, Nov. 6, and the 1,886 square foot Nordstrom Local Manhattan Beach (451 Manhattan Beach Blvd.) will open in the coming months. "Opening Nordstrom Local service hubs in the Los Angeles area is part of the continuation of our market strategy in one of our largest markets to provide customers with greater access to merchandise selection and faster delivery while increasing convenience and connection through our services," said Ken Worzel, chief operating officer at Nordstrom. "Nordstrom Local customers who engage with our services at a Local including curbside pick-up, returns, alterations and styling spend more than two-and-a-half times compared to other customers." At Nordstrom Local Newport Beach and Manhattan Beach customers will have access to the following services:

• Order Pickup: Order it today from Nordstrom.com, NordstromRack.com or HauteLook.com and pick it up in your neighborhood.
• Contactless Curbside Pickup: Place an order online and choose curbside pick-up. When you arrive at your Nordstrom Local, we'll bring your order out and place it in the trunk of your car.
• Fast and Easy Returns: Dropoff your returns from Nordstrom, Nordstrom Rack, Haute Look, Trunk Club and other online retailers- we will take care of the rest.
• Alterations: Get expert alterations on your purchases from Nordstrom, other retailers or items from your own closet. Need it fast? Enjoy same-day hems, sleeve shortening, sizing adjustments, simple repairs, and more. Our alterations experts will make sure you have the perfect fit.
• Styling: Our expert stylists can help with everything from styling tips to helping advise on a complete wardrobe refresh at no cost to you.
• Gift wrapping: Leave the wrapping to us! In addition to complimentary signature silver boxes, Nordstrom Local offers complimentary gift-wrapping for all Nordstrom purchases.
  • Gift-wrapped items can also be picked up in-store or via Curbside Pickup. Plus, our gift wrap is 100% recyclable. Non-Nordstrom purchases can be wrapped for $8 per package.
  • BEAUTYCYCLE: Bring in your empty beauty packaging to be recycled for free with Nordstrom BEAUTYCYCLE.
  • Clothing donation drop-off: In support of Nordstrom's commitment to local communities, bring in your gently used fashion for drop-off at our donation box, which will be distributed to a local non-profit.
  These two newest Nordstrom Local locations mark the fourth and fifth service hubs in the Los Angeles area, which include Melrose, Brentwood and Downtown Los Angeles. There are also Nordstrom Local's in New York City on the Upper East Side and in the West Village. In addition to these new Nordstrom Locals, Nordstrom also expanded its services and fulfillment solutions for customers in Los Angeles to better serve them on their terms, serving as a unique point of differentiation including:
  • Customers can now pick-up Nordstrom.com, NordstromRack.com and HauteLook.com orders at any Nordstrom Rack store.
  • Southern California customers can digitally shop across all the stores in their area and pick-up their purchases at the store of their choosing the next day, giving customers four times greater product selection.
  • • Starting Nov. 5, Nordstrom cardmembers in Southern California are eligible for free two-day home delivery.
    • Later this year, customers will be able to pick up their U.S. NordstromRack.com and HauteLook.com orders at their nearest Nordstrom and Nordstrom Local.
    • Los Angeles is one of Nordstrom's largest markets with 14 full-line stores, 30 Rack stores and soon to be five Locals with the addition of these two new locations.
    About Nordstrom Nordstrom, Inc. is a leading fashion retailer based in the U.S. Founded in 1901 as a shoe store in Seattle, today Nordstrom operates 355 stores in 40 states, including 100 full-line stores in the United States and Canada; 248 Nordstrom Rack stores; two clearance stores; and five Nordstrom Local service hubs. Additionally, customers are served online through Nordstrom.com, Nordstrom.ca, Nordstromrack.com, HauteLook.com and TrunkClub.com. Nordstrom, Inc.'s common stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol JWN.

Footwear brands are introducing creative initiatives to advance the circular economy by recycling worn wares and turning them back into new product instead of clogging up the waste stream.   Thousand Fell, the recyclable footwear brand rethinking sustainable practices, is teaming up with both UPS and TerraCycle to launch an innovative sneaker recycling program.   It marks a two-year-long partnership between Thousand Fell and TerraCycle, which have been working to create at-scale recycling solutions for footwear. The nationwide program offers customers an easy and accessible way to recycle their sneakers through the expansive network of The UPS Store locations and UPS authorized partners, such as Staples.   Customers can now bring their prepaid, labeled packages containing their sneakers to any of these 14,400 locations to be shipped directly back to TerraCycle for recycling, and in exchange, Thousand Fell will issue a credit of $20 toward a future purchase.   Since its launch last year, Thousand Fell tasked itself with getting product back from customers, while responsibly maintaining carbon footprint and cost and breaking down that product so that the materials could be reused in new sneakers. With TerraCycle and UPS as collaborators, Thousand Fell is working toward those goals and empowering customers to join them in building a better, zero-waste future, while affording full visibility and the ability to track their footwear’s life cycle.   Now, with access to support and scale of UPS and TerraCycle, Thousand Fell is doubling down on its mission to never send another sneaker to landfill and securing its foothold as a pioneer in the circular fashion economy.   UPS will run all shipping for Thousand Fell’s sneaker recycling program, lending its resources to build and manage Thousand Fell’s front-end logistics and fulfillment. Thousand Fell is using UPS’s reverse logistics program for recycling returns and freight that they can build and scale together over time, while keeping their carbon footprint as low as possible, an important step toward powering the circular economy.   Thousand Fell has worked with Ware2Go, a UPS company providing on-demand warehousing and fulfillment, to streamline the logistics process with UPS from warehousing and delivery at the beginning of the product/customer path to purchase through returns and recycling at the end of the customer journey.   TerraCycle, a specialist in recycling the unrecyclable, with programs in over 20 countries, will handle the receiving, storage and sustainable recycling of the footwear. TerraCycle and Thousand Fell are also working on a closed loop solution where old sneakers will be reintegrated into the supply chain to make new sneakers.   Thousand Fell will enable customers to create an account and register their sneakers once received. This will allow customers to initiate free recycling when they’re ready, either at one of the in-person drop off locations or by shipping them back directly to TerraCycle. Customers will also be able to see their entire purchase history and track the personal carbon footprint for their sneakers through ThousandFell.com.   Meanwhile, barefoot footwear company Vivobarefoot has introduced what it’s billing as the world’s first global “shoe amnesty.” Processed through its recently announced reconditioning, re-commerce platform, ReVivo, the shoe amnesty program asks new and returning customers to wear their Vivobarefoot footwear in, wear it out, and then to send it back.   In July, Vivobarefoot launched ReVivo as part of its quest to change how footwear is made and consumed. As a recommerce platform that revives, reconditions and resells worn and returned footwear from the brand, ReVivo also recycles any materials not used in the repair process.   These efforts are a bid to keep Vivobarefoot footwear on feet longer and help stop the number of shoes ending up in landfill each year. Now with shoe amnesty, those who return their footwear can get 20 percent off of a new pair of Vivobarefoot shoes or have a donation made on behalf to the LiveBarefoot Foundation, an in-house incubation that pioneers regeneration solutions for environmental and social problems.   “The shoe industry has historically put short-term performance and fashion before foot health and the wellbeing of our planet,” Galahad Clark, founder of Vivobarefoot, said. “Our ambition this year has been for ReVivo to lead the way, offering a model with real-world solutions that the industry can follow. Now with shoe amnesty, we’re opening the door for new customers to participate in a program that benefits the environment in an accessible way. ReVivo and shoe amnesty is just the start. As part of our wider regenerative journey, Vivobarefoot will also be launching 3D footwear, opening up radical transparency in our supply chain and redesigning all of our current footwear to allow us to reduce all suppliers and materials that make our products.”