Smokers are harming a whole lot more than just themselves. Here’s why smoking should be considered not just a health concern, but a major environmental one as well.

The boys and ghouls at Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful have conjured up a list of frightfully fun and shockingly simple ways to incorporate eco-friendly components into your Halloween décor leading up to the big day on October 31st. TerraCycle® Your Candy Wrappers – Once the holiday has come to an end, it’s easy to decide what to do with all of that candy (nomnomnom!). Unfortunately, it hasn’t always been easy to figure out what to do with all of those wrappers – which often wind up in our landfills due to the mix of materials that go into creating them (not easily recycled, we’re afraid!)

Elles arrivent en déchèterie ! En quelques années seulement, elles se sont imposées comme le gouter de référence : pratiques, légères, ergonomiques et parfois ludiques, les gourdes de compotes, style pom’pote se cachent dans toutes les poches. Jusqu’à présent non recyclable, cet emballage encombre largement la poubelle des ordures ménagères ou se retrouvent par erreur dans les colonnes d’emballages. L’entreprise Terracycle, en partenariat avec Materne, a développé le recyclage de ces gourdes. Consciente de l’impact de ces emballages non recyclés sur l’environnement, la Copler a décidé de participer à l’opération. Désormais, les déchèteries de Matard et Régny auront des bacs pour collecter ces fameuses gourdes de compote de toutes marques ainsi que les gourdes de yaourt. Attention, ces emballages ne sont acceptés que dans les déchèteries et non dans les points-tri.

Last year Americans bought over 1 billion pounds of pumpkins, sent around 85 percent of textiles to the landfill and ate 598 million pounds of candy to celebrate Halloween. Halloween, like other holidays, is often fraught with over-consumptive behavior and waste. But you can be less impactful and still have fun.

The City of Salem, Massachusetts is launching a city-wide program to collect and recycle cigarette butts, in an effort to keep Salem streets clean. Salem’s rollout is the first in New England for this new initiative and will launch this month with the installation of dozens of new cigarette-recycling receptacles around the city, especially downtown. The receptacles will be easily identified with stickers that say “Recycle Your Butts Here.”

The city is launching a program to collect and recycle cigarette butts. Salem has become the first municipality in New England — and one of the first in the nation _ to team with TerraCycle on the firm’s butt recycling initiative. Salem last week was set to begin installing dozens of cigarette receptacles in the city, primarily in the downtown. The waste will be collected regularly by city workers and shipped to TerraCycle.

Students at Fowler Elementary are doing their part to keep our community clean and planet healthy – all while raising much-needed funding. With the help of recycling and upcycling company TerraCycle, the Fowler students are collecting cheese packaging and drink pouches while earning two cents for every item returned. Helping the planet by recycling more is already a no-brainer, but the fact that we can raise money for the school at same time is almost too good to be true.