Separate your recycling: glass with glass, and cigarette butts with cigarette butts. The little smoked ends of filters that clutter street corners and beaches will be "upcycled" into pellets by Terracycle, according to SF Weekly. The company specializes in hard-to-recycle materials, and cigarette butts, with their cellulose acetate filters, are very hard to recycle. They are apparently also hard to throw away in a proper waste bin, with 65 percent of smokers discarding their butts on streets, in parks, or beaches -- anywhere but a trash can. TerraCycle will repurpose the cellulose acetate into shipping pallets, and is doing so in partnership with the Santa Fe Tobacco Company, which produces American Spirits. But there's no curbside collection: recycling-minded smokers will have to collect their butts in a plastic bag and mail them. Copyright NBC Owned Television Stations

Forget about second-hand smoke; one company wants your second-hand cigarette butts.   TerraCycle, a company that specializes in upcycling hard-to-recycle materials, has joined forces with San Diego based nonprofit RippleLife in an effort to repurpose cigarette filters. The effort is sponsored by Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, which apparently wants to do its part to keep its hipster customers from littering up cool, gentrifying neighborhoods nationwide.   Funded by donations, RippleLife became one of the first grassroots organizations to offer incentives to recycle cigarette butts 18 months ago, but they didn't know what to do with all the butts they collected. Enter TerraCycle, which now offers a way to recycle large quantities of butts by turning them into plastic.   Contrary to popular belief, cigarettes aren't biodegradable because of their filters, which are made of cellulose acetate. It is this acetate that is upcycled into plastic shipping pallets, says Stacey Krauss, TerraCycle's spokeswoman.   "This issue is way more enormous than I ever thought," says Chris Baffico, founder of RippleLife. "If you could show up and clean up 2,000 butts and five or six days later they were right back, you'd see what I mean."   Cigarette butts are some of the most commonly littered materials, with 65 percent of them not making it into trash cans, according to Keep America Beautiful.   "You don't have to walk or drive very far to see that smokers often discard cigarette waste in ways that litter the environment," says Cressida Lozano, head of sales and marketing for SFNTC.   Anyone can participate in this recycling campaign: simply collect the butts in a plastic bag, put that bag in a shipping box, and mail it off to Terracycle. But, as with any new initiative: Will people actually do it?   Terracycle's next coup: Turning dirty diapers into park benches. No kidding.

Barnmaten från Ella’s kitchen är både ekologisk och har snygga förpackningar. Härliga färger med fina illustrationer, samt ett fint, barnsligt typsnitt gör att dom väl passar sitt ändamål. Utbudet verkar vara större för den engelsk-språkiga världen men vi håller tummarna att sortimentet utökas i Sverige allt eftersom.

Att det sen kan vara lättare att dessa förpackningar hamnar i soporna än i återvinningen är en annan sak, men det försöker Ella’s kitchen uppmuntra oss att tänka på.

Lancée depuis juin dans les 3 groupes scolaires (Pasteur, Bruyères et Jean Macé), cette opération de recyclage des stylos, initiée par le Point Information jeunesse, est déjà un premier succès avec 11kg récoltés et ce n’est pas fini !

La Feria, organizada por IFEMA, se celebra desde el miércoles 5 hasta el domingo 9 de diciembre DABADUM, Salón del Ocio Infantil en Familia, que se celebra del 5 al 9 de diciembre en la Feria de Madrid, volverá a contar con la colaboración del Circo Ecológico de Alejandra Botto para la organización del espacio Mundo del Medio Ambiente y las Especies Protegidas, que reunirá, en el pabellón 5, múltiples actividades para hacer el puente de diciembre más divertido a los niños de entre 0 y 12 años.

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Eller rettere sagt, jeg er ikke, men en kurv jeg selv har flettet er. Firmaet Terracycle har gennem den sidste måned kørt en genbrugskonkurrence. Kriteriet for at deltage var, at man skulle fremstille et kakao- te- eller kaffeinspireret stykke brugskunst.

Actividades deportivas; cine; espectáculos; cuentacuentos; teatro; baile; robots; globoflexia; talleres de reciclaje; cocina; manualidades; cuidado de mascotas; solidaridad; talleres de decoración navideña; primeros auxilios; pintacaras; lectura y pintura; juegos de mesa; talleres literarios; videojuegos; radio.

Los fumadores del madrileño edificio de Torre Espacio formarán parte, durante tres meses, de un proyecto pionero en Europa