Rund 560 Kilo Müll produziert jeder Deutsche im Jahr. Für uns ist Müll wertlos, wir bezahlen sogar noch für dessen Entsorgung.

Upcycle: the process of converting trash into new materials or products of better quality or a higher value. In a time where we are encouraged to recycle, compost, and make superhuman efforts to reduce waste, the concept of making something nice out of what would otherwise be garbage is certainly not foreign. But upcycling is more than just reusing plastic grocery bags to pick up dog poop or dusting with your husband’s old undershirts. It’s creating something of real value out of literal junk. One of the most prolific upcyclers is Terracycle, an organization based in Trenton, N.J., with more than 20,000 volunteers. Participants “choose a waste stream,” collecting packaging from specific products – many of which were previously hard or impossible to recycle - and sending it in to Terracycle, which converts the waste into a wide variety of products and materials which are then sold at major retailers like Walmart and Whole Foods.

Estimadas familias: Les informamos que nos hemos sumado a una iniciativa de recogida de instrumentos de escritura, productos cotidianos que usamos a diario en el centro, las casas y lugares de trabajo. De este modo cualquier boligrafo, pluma, rotulador, corrector, marcador fluorescente, etc, (sin importar la marca del fabricante o el material del que estén hechos con excepción de la madera) puede ser reciclado. Pondremos en las aulas y hall del colegio donde se podrán depositar en lugar de la papelera habitual.

Would you believe discarded Ziploc bags and juice pouches could be worth more than $3,000? Students at a Burlington County elementary school believe it now, thanks to one woman's extraordinary recycling efforts and generosity. On Thursday night, the Burlington County Education Association and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection honored retiree LuAnn Doyle for her contribution to both the school and the environment. From Feb. 2011 until late May of this year, Doyle collected waste from school meals during lunch hours at Hawthorne Park Elementary School in Willingboro, N.J. She recycled the items and gave the money made from it back to the school. All told, she saved more than 160,000 items from the landfill and raised $3,274.15. Here's the breakdown of what she collected: 29,145 juice pouches

Chers parents, L’équipe des éco-délégués a mis en place le recyclage des feutres, stylos, surligneurs et effaceurs dans toutes les classes de l’école.

Met de school gaan we deelnemen aan een nieuw initiatief. Dit betreft een recycleprogramma van plastic schrijfwaren, zoals balpennen, kleurstiften, drukpotloden, tekstmarkers, enz. Voor alle schrijfwaren die zijn ingezameld, schenken BIC en TerraCycle 2 cent aan een goed doel, naar keuze van de school. Voorbeeld: Vijf kilo ingezamelde schrijfwaar is een schenking van 10 euro. Het goede doel van onze keus is: Stichting van Duchenne. De keus voor deze stichting is gemaakt in verband met de ziekte van Emiel Zwart, uit groep 5. We sparen niet alleen voor een goed doel, maar we willen hierdoor ook mede het milieubewustzijn van de leerlingen verhogen. Door deelname aan de actie verminderen we ophoping van afval en verminderen we eveneens de vraag naar nieuwe grondstoffen. Hoe gaan we aan deze verzamelactie meedoen? Er komt een afvalverzameldoos te staan, naast de ton voor de batterijen en de dozen voor de postzegels en de ansichtkaarten. Als de doos vol is, wordt deze door ons verstuurd. Wat we van u vragen is: meehelpen met sparen. Dat moet niet moeilijk zijn, gezien het

Kimberly-Clark is known for popular consumer brands such as Kleenex, Scott, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, and Depend. Yet through its four business segments, the company also makes products for industrial and medical-related segments. In all, Kimberly-Clark markets its brands in more than 175 countries. This summer, Kimberly-Clark Health Care and Kimberly-Clark Professional, two of those four segments, are launching “SmartPULL*” packaging technology for its STERLING* and LAVENDER* Medical Exam gloves that greatly reduce glove waste from previous packaging and fit into the company’s wide-ranging sustainability efforts. Developed internally, SmartPULL packaging technology incorporates a dual glove opening tab for paperboard cartons used in medical, dental, laboratory, and university research environments.

The Garnier Greener Tour, in partnership with TerraCycle, is making stops all over the country to raise awareness about the recyclability of cosmetic packaging, encourage people to think differently about waste, and teach simple ways to have a positive impact on the environment. And yes, it’s actually coming to Corpus Christi. We shall pause for a moment of silence in honor of the sheer awesomeness of this fact. pause On Sunday, June 10th from 2pm to 4 pm – the Garnier Get Greener Tour Bus is going to be at the Calallen Walmart at 3829 US Highway 77. There will be a couple of stylists to do hair, Terracycle bins for recycling used cosmetics containers, refreshments, even games and activities, and for those lucky ones who RSVP’d to the local evite FB blast — special Garnier Goody Bags!

A recycling revolution is going on through the halls of North Andover Middle School. Students, teachers and other staffers have cut the volume of trash from the cafeteria by more than half, according to Craig Richard, one of the teachers who helped get the program going. The three lunch periods at the school used to produce around 30 bags of trash per day, Richard said. "Now it's around a dozen," he said. Tod Workman, school custodian, pointing to a cart that was about half full of trash bags, said it used to overflow with refuse from the cafeteria. The recycling renaissance was spearheaded not by adults, but by two eighth-graders, Douglas Starrett and Harry Ustik, who wrote a letter to the school's online newspaper NAMS Knightly News, in which they took the school to task for throwing away too much trash.

Tom Szaky, Chief Executive Officer, TerraCycle, Inc. Does spirituality play a role in how you run your company? This is a hard question to answer, as my personal spirituality is what guides my daily decisions -- both consciously and subconsciously. However, if looking for a yes/no I would go with "no" as we try to run an agnostic organization so that all spiritual beliefs can co-exist. If not, can you share your thinking about omitting spirituality? Since spirituality is personal and especially because it can create controversy (when two different spiritual perspectives collide) I don't think there is a place for it in the workplace (TerraCycle). To us it is equally inappropriate as people wearing T-shirts with political slogans on them (e.g. "pro-choice").