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Beauty brigade freshens up campus

The “beauty brigades” started in every residence hall bathroom on Rider’s campus. Green buckets, adorned with pictures of cosmetic packaging and various personal hygiene bottles accompanied by a list of accepted empty containers, mysteriously appeared in both men’s and women’s restrooms. The only other signal for the fate of these empty bottles was a logo that read “TerraCycle.” The founder of TerraCycle, entrepreneur and environmentalist Tom Szaky, was a special speaker for Rider in 2008.

St Michel recycle ses emballages de biscuits

Les Français consomment 8,6 kg de biscuits et pâtisseries industrielles par an. Soit un million de tonnes d’emballages mis sur le marché chaque année en France. Or, en attendant que les consignes de tri des plastiques se généralisent sur tout le territoire, il n'existe pas encore de filière de recyclage de ces films. Ils finissent aujourd'hui dans les incinérateurs ou les centres d'enfouissement.

Surfrider aims to can cigarette butts in Huntington Beach

It’s a message the volunteer with the Huntington Beach chapter of Surfrider Foundation takes seriously, for the past three years helping to implement a canister program called “Hold Onto Your Butts” that has gathered more than 250,000 cigarette butts.Then, Sellers gathers the piles of butts each month or so in big plastic bags and takes it to the U. S. Post Office to ship them out to be recycled to a company called Terracycle.