Varmdrikkskapsler og foliepakninger havner i skrivende stund normalt sett enten på deponier eller på forbrenningsanlegger grunnet deres komplekse materialsammensetning.

TerraCycle har nå samlet inn og gjenvunnet over 600 000 varmdrikkskapsler som tidligere ble definert som ”ikke-resirkulerbare”.

Miljøvirksomheten TerraCycle har samlet inn og gjenvunnet 600 000 varmdrikkskapsler i Norge.

By Brandpoint (BPT) - From an early age, children can roll up their sleeves and get involved in helping reduce the amount of trash they produce by participating in recycling programs. Across the country, children will celebrate Earth Day April 22 with science fairs and environmental educational seminars about the importance of recycling. When children start recycling early in life, they’re more likely to continue that behavior as they get older – and pass the practice on to their own kids. Recycling is a growing program in households, cities and schools across the country. In fact, Americans recycled 82 million tons of materials in 2009 – the most recent year for reported data, and that number keeps increasing, according to Keep America Beautiful. School programs are a great way to not only promote recycling in younger generations, but also to create a fundraiser for the schools. This year, as Earth Day approaches April 22, schools can organize aluminum can drives and participate in cash-for-schools programs based on recycling lunch packaging. One such program is The Recycle...Reuse...Replenish Earth Day Campaign which encourages school children to recycle their Entenmann’s Little Bites Pouches with TerraCycle, resulting in cash back to the school. In addition, here are some more recycling, reusing and replenishing tips, perfect for school children to promote every lunch day at the school. Recycle: * Know your numbers – Teach your children to look for numbers and recycling symbols on plastic containers to know which containers can be reused through a recycling program. * Sign up for cash back programs – Sign up your school for the TerraCycle program – if it’s not already registered – and have your children recycle their Little Bites pouches each lunch hour. Visitwww.terracycle.com/en-US/brigades.html to find a listing of other lunch items TerraCycle collects. Reuse: * Keep the container – Send your children to school with their daily sandwich packaged in a reusable container they can bring home and use again the next day. Let them decorate the container to make it a personal item to show off at lunch. * Craft material supplies – Before throwing anything away, teach your children to think about how the material might be reused in a crafting project. TerraCycle provides several do-it-yourself project ideas atwww.terracycle.com/en-US/do-it-yourself-projects.html. Replenish: * Have leftovers? – Set up a compost pile at home, and give your children a lesson in biodegradable foods. Ask them to bring leftovers that are biodegradable home in their sandwich container to add to the compost pile. * Grow new lunch materials – Give your children a small garden to plant and tend that contains their favorite vegetables. Show them how beneficial their lunch compost is for growing those plants they can eat at future lunches. Entenmann’s will be giving away weekly prizes, including Little Bites coupons home improvement gift cards for starting an Earth Day garden, and a $5,000 cash grand prize through a sweepstakes link atwww.facebook.com/Entenmanns. Register your school now for a chance to win the prize and build a beautiful Earth Day garden. Help teach your children the importance of the three R’s: recycle, reuse and replenish. The earlier they start, the more likely they’ll be to participate the rest of their lives.

Earth Day is April 22nd, and it’s time to celebrate! There are many things we do daily like reusable bags and recycle plastic bottles. Then there are some fun ways to get the family involved with doing more for  Earth Day like making some great up-cycle crafts and items for the home. Capri Sun partners with TerraCycle to help keep our Earth healthy and happy. Check out some   amazing inspiration! Like these : Cosmetic Tube Earrings Upcycled Toothbrush Holder or this fun Capri Sun bag

Læs artiklen om Nickie som samler penge ind til børn og unge i Vietnam. Foreningen kan man støtte med penge eller med låg fra mælkekartoner, som foreningen kan få penge for ved at deltage i TerraCycles indsamlingsprogram Brug Låget!.

Protéger l’environnement et collecter des dons pour des associations en même temps, c’est possible ! Dès maintenant, les classes peuvent participer aux programmes de recyclage innovants de TerraCycle grâce auxquels des déchets qui atterrissaient auparavant à l’incinérateur ou à la décharge peuvent à présent être recyclés. Les élèves collectent leurs stylos vides ou leurs brosses à dents usagées, et reçoivent par déchet envoyé deux centimes qu’ils peuvent dépenser en faveur de l’association de leur choix. À travers ces programmes, les élèves apprennent concrètement en quoi consiste la protection de l’environnement et la préservation des ressources naturelles.

「サンタフェ　ナチュラルタバコ　ジャパン」（東京都港区）と米国に本社を置くリサイクル企業の「テラサイクル　ジャパン」（同区）は１７日、神奈川県藤沢市の江の島海岸で、タバコの吸い殻をリサイクルのために回収するイベント「吸い殻ブリゲードプログラム」を開催する。

It is the height of irony that Tyson Gersh is shy a handful of credits until he graduates from the University of Michigan-Dearborn. At 24, the president of one the fastest-growing, most successful Detroit nonprofits that hardly anybody (over 30 years old anyway) has ever heard of, is short a French class and another class he could probably teach blindfolded. “Yeah I know,” the collegiate rower and triathlete says, head down, in a rare display of self consciousness. “I failed ‘Urban Entrepreneurship: Doing Business in Detroit.’ ” Judging from the speed at which Michigan Urban Farming Initiative has taken off, Gersh was likely doing business in Detroit during class time. In March 2012, Gersh, and his co-founder, Darin McLeskey, also an accomplished twentysomething who holds a masters in civil and environmental engineering, began the multifaceted nonprofit with a purchase of a uninhabitable three-story, six-unit apartment building on 7432 Brush off East Grand Boulevard. In the span of a little over two years, the nonprofit is transforming several city blocks in the North End community of Detroit. What began as a small experiment in urban farming aimed at tackling food insecurity has morphed into several innovative projects. While 7432 Brush is slated to be the headquarters for the nonprofit, complete with an educational center for nutrition classes and a commercial kitchen, across the street, the once-barren, almost 1-acre lot produced close to 12,000 pounds of fresh, organic last year. The majority of the produce goes to the North End residents and vendors, most notably the nearby Firewater Bar and Grill on John R, which bought them out of collard greens last year. Farm manager Pinky Jones is a long-term resident whose house sits directly across the street from the garden. “At first we bonded over our mutual love of agriculture and then it turns out she’s freaking awesome,” Gersh says. Jones is readily available to harvest produce for customers via a knock on the door; her cell number is posted outside on a sign. Produce is then weighed and “sold” at a suggested donation based on market value. “But,” Gersh says, “it’s strictly based on ability to pay.” In addition to 7432 Brush, five more abandoned homes (most bought at auction from the city for a few hundred bucks apiece) are in the process of being gutted, thanks to young volunteers willing to don hard hats and construction masks. Plans are to convert them into a storm management system and retention pond, a veterans’ center called “Boots take Roots,” a building to train and house interns, a site for a for-profit business to fund the nonprofit, and, thanks to a recent collaboration with General Motors, the city’s first occupied shipping container homestead. “It was never supposed to be this big,” Gersh says, “but we soon realized it just wouldn’t be valuable if we built this little garden and then left.” Amazingly, all of the farming initiative’s projects are accomplished by volunteers, with a capital “V. “MIUFI is 100 percent volunteer-run; 100 percent nonprofit,” Gersh declares. “We have 3,000 who have put in in over 30,000 volunteer hours. No one here has been paid for anything they’ve done here. Not a dime.” To that end everybody at MIUFI — from the volunteer coordinator to the community liaison to the farm manager — wear several different hats, as well as carry day jobs. To wit: when she‘s not learning how to put in electrical wiring and planning crop rotation, Molly Hubbell (who at 28 is the self-described “old lady here”) works as a harbor master at the Grosse Pointe Club. Co-founder McCleskey works full time as an environmental engineer for Soil and Materials Engineers Inc. Volunteer coordinator Shelby Wilson is a behavioral analysis aide at The Children’s Center of Wayne County. Even Gersh, who works for a social psychology research lab in Ann Arbor, has been known to accept odd jobs on Craig’s List, cleaning out elderly people’s attics to pay his rent. Here’s where you come in: the bulk of the farming initiative’s funding comes from online contests sponsored by corporations. With their formidable force of Facebook followers numbering close to 14,000 ready and willing to vote at a moment’s notice, Gersh estimates they’ve been awarded close to $70,000 from companies like Aveda and the granola bar company, Nature Valley. In April, MIUFI was named as one of five finalists in the country to win a community garden from Garnier Green Garden Project. It could mean a nice chunk of change for a really deserving nonprofit that has an inestimable supply of goodwill. Let’s keep ’em going. Vote green If you’d like to help Michigan Urban Farming Initiative win the Garnier Green Garden Project, vote online for at green.garnierusa.com/#/vote/detroit. mkeenan@detroitnews.com

Trending Now on Patch The Battlegrounds at Cedar Lake, the Midwest's only permanent mud run and obstacle course, recently held its fourth bi-annual race and collected 350 pairs of shoes for the less fortunate. The Battlegrounds teamed up with Barrel Aid, which partners with the non-profit Mission-Haiti.org to supply clean shoes, fresh water, food and schooling for more than 1,600 unserved children in Southern Haiti. Barrel Aid attends mud races from around the country and collects donated shoes, which are laundered and transported in barrels to Mission Haiti in Ti-Rivier. After the shoes have been distributed, Barrel Aid's barrels are fitted with an easy-to-use gutter in order to capture clean rain water for drinking and cooking. Barrel Aid donates all of the broken and unusuable shoes to TerraCycle, which refurbishes them for people in the U.S. For every 25 pounds of recycled shoes they receive from Barrel Aid, 10¢ is donated to Mission Haiti. "This year we had our biggest run ever with 850 mud runners plus more than 1,000 spectators," said Carl Bolm, owner of The Battlegrounds and Cedar Lake Cellars. "We are so honored to be a part of Barrel Aid's mission to help children in Haiti." The Battlegrounds is located at 960 State Highway 00 in Wright City, Mo. next to Cedar Lake Cellars winery and event center. The mud run is held on the first Saturdays in May and October. For more information, contact Barrel Aid's president Nic Zahasky at (563) 419-7465 or visit www.barrelaid.com. For mud run details, call The Battlegrounds' Bob Holm at (314) 569-3005 ext. 114 or visit the website at www.thebattlegrounds.com.