KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* has launched a pioneering initiative across EMEA that enables cleanroom and laboratory operators to recycle a wide range of used protective garments. This follows a successful launch in the United States earlier this year. The programme, called RightCycle, makes it easy to dispose of previously hard-to-recycle garments such as coveralls, gloves, hoods, boot covers and hairnets in a sustainable manner. The used items are simply placed in a RightCycle collection box or the operator's own box. Full boxes are assembled onto pallets and collected by KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* programme partner TerraCycle. Launched initially in the UK and Germany as a one-year pilot scheme, RightCycle is the first large-scale recycling solution for this kind of waste, offering companies an opportunity to reduce landfill waste streams and enhance their sustainability efforts. After the used garments are collected, they are turned into raw materials to create eco-friendly consumer products such as plastic chairs. Ruud Sleumer, Customer Marketing Manager at KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL*, commented: "Our cleanroom and laboratory customers have ambitious sustainability goals, yet often struggle with where and how to get started. Our innovative RightCycle programme offers a powerful and easy way for them to exceed their solid waste reduction goals, while helping to make their workplaces healthier, safer and more productive." The RightCycle programme supports the 'Planet' pillar of the three-pronged Kimberly-Clark Corporation Sustainability 2015 vision, which also encompasses 'People' and 'Products'. The Sustainability 2015 strategy engages Kimberly-Clark businesses, brands and employees globally. Under each of the three pillars, the company is working towards meeting a range of demanding targets that will make a major difference to the sustainability of its operations and, potentially, affect millions of people's lives for the better. Sustainability 2015 builds on the success of previous KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* environmental improvement programmes – such as the Vision 2010 initiative, under which the company implemented a number of successful projects worldwide to improve its performance in key environmental areas. It also widens the focus and scope of the company's sustainability agenda to integrate elements that sustain and nurture healthy working environments and communities. Ruud Sleumer said: "The disposal of solid waste by pharmaceutical and other scientific organisations poses considerable challenges for businesses and society. Landfill options are becoming more limited and waste disposal costs continue to rise. The RightCycle programme takes recycling to a new level – beyond downcycling, upcycling and other approaches – by making it easy to recycle pharmaceutical cleanroom and laboratory garments that used to be very difficult to dispose of sustainably." He continued: "This new recycling programme, operated with our partner TerraCycle, further extends the KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* commitment to offering our customers sustainability initiatives which save time, materials and ultimately money. This new capacity to recycle cleanroom gloves and coveralls also importantly helps our customers' employees stay motivated to reach their CSR goals." Chris Baker, General Manager for TerraCycle Europe, added: "TerraCycle is delighted to partner with industry leader KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* to launch this new, first-of-its-kind recycling solution for non-traditional cleanroom waste. Providing end-of-life solutions for previously difficult-to-recycle items from cleanrooms is an exciting new venture and could have massive industry-wide impact." KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* customers can register their interest in taking part in the RightCycle programme by completing the form at www.terracycle.co.uk/gloves or www.terracycle.co.uk/garments.

Muito antes de se discutir a questão da logística reversa, a Faber-Castell estabeleceu uma parceria com a TerraCycle para um programa de coleta que permite a reciclagem de instrumentos de escrita.

Tom Szaky: Founder and CEO of TerraCycle, which makes consumer products from post-consumer waste primarily collected in U.S. schools and through 2.6 million members of his “trash brigades.” Capri Sun juice pouches become pencil cases, circuit boards become picture frames and clocks, and Oreo cookie wrappers morph into kites.

TV2 Nord viser et indsalg om TerraCycles indsamling Brug Låget!, der nu har rundet over halvanden million indsamlede mælke- og yoghurtlåg. En af de lokale dagplejere deltager i tv indslaget med deres indsamling. Se indslaget fra: 11.15 - 13.27.

השבוע עולה על הבמה חברת טרהסייקל ישראל שמקדמת מיחזור על-ידי איסוף אריזות ומוצרים שהוגדרו לפני-כן כבלתי ניתנים או קשים למיחזור

Grundschule Westerengel ist Landessieger des Recycling-Wettbewerbs "BIC Schulmeisterschaften 2013". Westerengel. Umweltschutz und Nachhaltigkeit werden in der Staatlichen Grundschule Westerengel ganz groß geschrieben. Alle Schülerinnen und Schüler der 6. Klassen wurden jetzt bei dem Recycling-Wettbewerb "BIC Schulmeisterschaften 2013" des Schreibwarenherstellers BIC und des Umweltunternehmens TerraCycle für ihr Engagement belohnt: Drei Monate lang waren Schulen in allen Bundesländern aufgerufen, so viele leere oder kaputte Kugelschreiber, Filzstifte, Textmarker und Korrekturmittel wie möglich in einem beliebigen Karton zu sammeln und kostenlos zum Recycling an TerraCycle zu schicken. Darüber informiert das Unternehmen in einer Pressemitteilung.

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A north Northumberland first school has proved it’s not rubbish by winning a nationwide recycling competition.   Wooler First School took the title in the nationwide McVitie’s Biscuit Wrapper Roundup contest, winning the £250 top prize and a prize hamper thanks to the support of local people. A staggering 7,800 used biscuit wrappers were collected by the school’s network of collectors and the wider local community during the six-month contest, which ended in October. Wooler First School beat off strong competition from participating locations all over the UK including runners-up, the Women’s Aid Charity in Grimsby, and the third-placed Preemies UK children’s charity in Droitwich. Dave Sage, the scheme administrator at school, said: “Wooler First School is delighted to have won the Biscuit Wrapper Roundup and would like to say a huge thank-you to everyone locally who helped by saving their biscuit wrappers for us, especially to the Blood Donor Centre in Newcastle, Roddam WI and other community groups. “Since we began collecting various types of waste packaging with TerraCycle a year ago, we have saved an incredible 32,435 pieces of waste from local landfill, raising £1,333, which the school is using to buy additional classroom resources and forest-school equipment. “This is only the beginning though, as we are collecting various types of waste with TerraCycle on an ongoing basis. “Any local people wishing to help can simply drop their used biscuit wrappers, pens, baby-food pouches, baby-wipes packaging and coffee packaging of any brand and Activia, Actimel and Shape yogurt pots back to our 24/7 access outdoor collection point at the Cheviot Centre on Padgepool Place and we will happily send them in as part of our recycling collections.”

TerraCycle's mission is to find ways to transform hard-to-recycle waste, including drink pouches, candy wrappers and cereal bags. A company spokesperson told us in an email: "The Capri Sun Tote Bag is an example of an upcycled product, where the packaging is reused in close to its original form.

“We will be working with a recycling company called TerraCycle, and to make our project a success, we need not only the school but the community’s help,” Carlson said. TerraCycle is a company that takes used packaging and other products that would otherwise end up in landfills and reuses them to create new materials and products, also known as “upcycling.”