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Colgate-Palmolive, Hersteller von Zahnbürsten und anderen Zahnpflegeprodukten, hat mit dem Recycling-Unternehmen TerraCycle das erste Recycling-System für Zahnpflegeabfälle ins Leben gerufen. Damit sollen Zahnpflegeabfällt zu 100% einem stofflichem Recycling zugeführt werden.

Zahnbürsten gehören nicht in den gelben Sack. Doch entsorgt man sie über den Restmüll, werden sie verbrannt und ihr Materialwert geht unwiederbringlich verloren. Schade um die Rohstoffe, fand auch Colgate-Palmolive. Colgate hat sich mit dem Recycling-Unternehmen TerraCycle zusammengetan, um das erste Recycling-System für Zahnpflegeabfälle ins Leben zu rufen.

BOULDER - Alfalfa's Market and the nonprofit Center for ReSource Conservation are among the local companies and groups that have plans to celebrate Earth Day, Monday, April 22. Boulder-based Alfalfa's plans to kick off a beefed-up recycling program on Wednesday, April 17, in honor of Earth Day, the company said in a press statement. Customers can recycle used baby food pouches, Tom's of Maine personal care items and No. 4 plastic bags at the store under the new program. Alfalfa's will send the items to Terracycle, based in Trenton, New Jersey, to be made into new plastic items such as park benches, backpacks and tote bags.

Natural and organic foods retailer Alfalfa’s Market will kick off its second B’Earthday celebration with an enhanced  recycling program. Beginning April 17, Alfalfa’s will allow customers to deposit used baby food pouches, Tom’s of Maine personal care items, and No. 4 plastic bags at the store. The grocer will send these items to Terracycle where they will be recycled and made into new plastic items, such as park benches, backpacks and tote bags.

It’s been said over and over again: reduce, reuse and recycle in order to help Mother Earth. But how many of us actually heed this call and live our lives consciously reducing, reusing and recycling? Not many, that’s for sure. Good thing that people like Tom Szaky not only take up the environmental battle cry with a passion, but turn it into a useful enterprise that shows the rest of the world just how waste elimination can easily be handled. Terracycle, Szaky’s social enterprise, is a prime example of literally turning trash into cash.

Chances are you can recycle your shampoo or body wash bottle just as you would anything else. But if you’d like to recycle items like lipstick tubes, blush compacts and other cosmetic containers, the TerraCycle program is probably your best bet.

George Bernard Shaw said, “Youth is wasted on the young.” If you met Tom Szaky you might disagree. At fourteen, Tom was making …

Natural and organic foods retailer Alfalfa’s Market will kick off its second B’Earthday celebration with an enhanced  recycling program. Beginning April 17, Alfalfa’s will allow customers to deposit used baby food pouches, Tom’s of Maine personal care items, and No. 4 plastic bags at the store. The grocer will send these items to Terracycle where they will be recycled and made into new plastic items, such as park benches, backpacks and tote bags.