Colgate, la marca líder mundial en Cuidado Oral, confirma su compromiso con el cuidado del medioambiente y en alianza con TerraCycle promueve la recolección y el reciclaje de sus productos en 20 tiendas Walmart de Argentina.

Con esta iniciativa, Colgate invita a todos los consumidores a tomar conciencia sobre los desechos y propone disminuir el impacto ambiental a través del reciclaje de sus propios productos. Tubos de pasta dental, cepillos de dientes, hilo dental, enjuague oral y todos sus envoltorios de cuidado oral podrán tener una nueva vida a partir de este innovador programa que lanza por primera vez en Argentina. La recolección de estos productos se realizará desde el 1 de julio hasta el 31 de agosto de 2013 en 20 tiendas Walmart en ciudades de todo el páis. Cada tienda tendrá dos cajas de recolección donde se podrán depositar los desechos de productos de cuidado oral que los consumidores lleven a la tienda Walmart más cercana.  Las cajas completas, luego, serán retiradas por TerraCycle, la empresa que le dará una nueva vida a los materiales, reciclándolos y transformándolos en nuevos productos. La alianza de Colgate y TerraCycle se enmarca en la estrategia global que la marca viene realizando desde hace años y que la posiciona como referente en materia de responsabilidad social.  En Estados Unidos, Brasil y México, Colgate ya tiene programas de recolección junto a TerraCycle, donde ha logrado que más de 900.000 unidades de desechos de cuidado oral eviten terminar en basurales. Con este programa, Colgate se convierte en la segunda marca aliada a TerraCycle en Argentina. Ann Glotzbach, Directora Regional de Argentina y Brasil, anunció con alegría la expansión de TerraCycle en Argentina y dijo que “programas como el de Colgate demuestran el compromiso de las marcas con el cuidado del medioambiente y la responsabilidad por sus desechos.” Para más información sobre el programa de cuidado oral de Colgate, ingresar aquí: www.terracycle.com.ar/brigada-colgate

TerraCycle is a company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and repurposes the material into affordable, innovative products which are all natural, made 100% right here in the USA and most importantly are very effective.

Santana Tamarak, owner of Tamarak’s Wellness Center in Scottsbluff, has built a business on helping customers achieve personal wellness, but recently he found a way to improve the community’s environmental health. “Just as we recommend to our clients that a cleansing is important to do a couple of times a year, Mother Earth needs that cleanse, as well,” he said. Smokers not only neglect their own health, but many of them are litterbugs. According to Keep America Beautiful, the largest community improvement organization in the U.S., 65 percent of all cigarette butts are disposed of improperly, and cigarette waste accounts for 39 percent of all U.S. roadway litter. Since December, Tamarak has collected about 9,000 butts and shipped them off to a recycling company called TerraCycle. He said he became interested in the company because of the odd items it uses to make recycled products. The company accepts post-consumer products that local recycling programs usually can’t take: potato chip bags, cheese packing plastic, oral hygiene products, candy wrappers and much more. TerraCycle has been in business for a little over a decade, growing from a small, dorm-room operation making organic fertilizer using the cafeteria’s kitchen waste. Now it is the world’s leader in the collection and reuse of non-recyclable, post-consumer waste, which it transforms into affordable products for the home, garden and office. “I chose cigarette butts, because I thought it was unusual,” he said. “They sent me a sort of rubber ash tray to show me an example of what they are recycling the cigarette butts into.” Primarily, the butts are converted into plastic pallets for industrial use, and any remaining tobacco or paper is composted. “Obviously, this isn’t a perfect system,” he said. “We still have cigarette butts. But when I look around at auto supply places, or the courthouse, or other institutions that have butt containers sitting outside — there are hundreds of them — I pick that as a place to start.” Collecting the butts is just a hobby venture for the small business owner. He said it fulfills his desire to do something for the community. And while TerraCycle offers prizes to organizations that donate significantly, Tamarak acts as a volunteer, expecting nothing in return. He collects cigarette butts from parks, the local courthouse and private donors. “Between folks that I know who drop cigarette butts off at the store (Tamarak’s Wellness Center), plus the courthouse, my first shipment was nine pounds,” he said. “My second shipment was about five pounds.” Participation in the nationwide Cigarette Waste Brigade is limited to adults age 21 and older. It is completely free. The Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, maker of the American Spirit cigarette brand and partner with the Cigarette Waste Brigade, pays for the shipping cost. Additionally, for every pound of cigarette waste TerraCycle receives, $1 is donated to Keep America Beautiful.  

While we've got nothing personal against shoji screens, there's just something about them that screams, "I really couldn't think of any other way to separate my space". If you're looking for some more imaginative room divider ideas to create different living areas in a studio apartment or to section off a large room, we've compiled a list of options that are as useful as they are unique. Flip through our round-up for 8 interesting partitioning solutions that will help you divide and conquer.   Plastic Bottle Room Divider Take a tip from the repurposing gurus at TerraCycle and copy their plastic bottle partitions. You can use clear bottles if you want light to pass through your bottle wall or darker bottles if you prefer more privacy. Records Music lovers can take another tip from TerraCycle, and recycle their old records into a room divider that is music to our ears.

The Kick-It 3v3 Soccer Tournament is coming to Alton August 3 & 4 with Entenmann's Bakery and recycling pioneer TerraCycle. Entenmann's will offer free samples of Little Bites and have recycling bins for the empty packaging which will then be sent to TerraCycle for recycling. For more information, registration and details about the tournament please visit www.kickit3v3.com.

Entenmann’s Bakery, a Bimbo Bakeries USA company and maker of more than 100 sweet baked goods, has partnered with upcycling and recycling pioneer TerraCycle to launch the Entenmann’s Little Bites Pouch Brigade. Shoppers can now send their empty Little Bites packages to TerraCycle to be recycled or repurposed. For every two pounds of pouches returned, TerraCycle awards points which can be used for charity gifts or converted to cash and donated to the school or non-profit organization of the collector’s choice.

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Action News Reports on a Girl Scout troop doing their part recycling Kraft Cheese packaging while raising money for their school or charity (Link Below). TerraCycle on WPVI-PHI (ABC) The girl scout troop collects Kraft cheese packaging at local eateries to raise funds for their school or charity. TerraCycle, an upcycling and recycling company located in Trenton, New Jersey, is working with the girl scout troop by collecting and reusing Kraft cheese packaging. They convert the plastic into reusable items. This reduces waste while paving a way to help others with donations for education or charity.