Tengo una amiga que dice que no sabe quién compra bolígrafos y mecheros. Ella siempre tiene el bolso lleno, se supone que de pedirlos prestados y no devolverlos. Esta amiga, y la mayoría de nosotros, tampoco sabe qué se puede hacer cuando bolis y rotuladores se gastan. ¿Tirarlos al contenedor amarillo? ¿A la basura normal? Hasta ahora eran objetos casi imposibles de reciclar. Me escriben desde TerraCycle para comentarme un interesantísimo proyecto que están llevando a cabo en España con la recolección y posterior reciclaje de los instrumentos de escritura. Al mismo tiempo que ayudan a mantener más limpio nuestro planeta, la iniciativa ayuda a asociaciones comoSave the Children y Fundación + árboles. Han cumplido su primer año de actividad con buenos resultados y con la esperanza de que cada vez sean más los colegios, universidades y ayuntamientos que se unan a la iniciativa.

While we're talking Earth Day, if you're reading this on Saturday, you might check out Moore College of Art & Design (20th Street and The Parkway) today between 11 am and 3 pm, where they'll be doing a presentation called MOOREcycle. It's an exercise "aimed at creating environmental awareness and encouraging camaraderie across all majors at Moore. Students have been working hard all semester upcycling ‘waste’ donated by TerraCycle into functional pieces for class assignments and a design competition held by Student Services. On April 21, Moore will showcase all class assignments and competition entries, and will also offer craft activities as a way to involve the rest of the community during the MOOREcycle event.

Chris Baker vil gjerne ha tak i den brukte tyggisen som ligger på fortauene i alle verdens byer. Han vil gjenvinne dem. Det er ett av hans svar på verdens miljøproblemer. Les artikkelen i: Aftenposten-23.04.12

TerraCycle tar gjenstander som har null verdi, eller til og med negativ verdi (best kjent som søppel) og gir disse nytt liv ved å oppsirkulere dem til noe nytt! Målet er å eliminere ideen om søppel, de vil at vi skal se at mye av det vi kaster, faktisk kan brukes på nye og nyttige måter! I Norge har de et innsamlingsprogram for varmdrikkekapsler og emballasje, der de lager blant annet vesker, høyttalere og notatbøker av det, istedet for at det havner på søppelfyllinga eller blir forbrent.

TerraCycle en janvier. Cette petite entreprise a pour but d'éliminer la notion de déchets et organise des programmes de collecte nationaux pour proposer une solution de recyclage à des produits traditionnellement considérés comme non recyclables.

El comercial Bicibus, sintetiza el logro de los chicos que se sumaron al Programa de Reutilización de Envases de Bebidas en Polvo, desarrollado por Tang y TerraCycle durante 2011. Esta acción, única en su tipo en la Argentina, convocó a más de 350.000 niños, que se unieron para conformar más de 1.100 Brigadas Tang y lograron recolectar 500.000 sobres.

Le collège du Pays de l'Alloeu a créé son équipe de collecte d'instruments d'écriture usagés TerraCycle en janvier.

Finished a beauty product? We know—it’s a rarity in our world. We’ve only reached the elusive empty pan so many times in our lives, so it’s difficult to imagine the life cycle of a product after you’ve actually used it up! But an empty bottle isn’t an excuse to toss the remains in the trash, and a product junkie doesn’t have to forsake eco-responsibility in the name of beauty. In honor of Earth Day, let’s rethink the afterlife of used makeup merchandise.

RETURN IT

If you've got the urge to purge, some beauty brands will do the heavy lifting for you. MAC's famous Back 2 MAC program encourages recycling at the source. If you bring back six empty plastic containers to your local counter, they'll take the goods and gift you a lipstick of your choice! How's that for eco-incentive? For any other products, Garnier has teamed up with TerraCycle to responsibly dispose of makeup, skin care, and hair care bottles you don’t know what to do with. They send you a prepaid mailer, and you send them your stash!

HONEST TEA, like other organic beverage sellers, normally promotes its real leaves, fair trade certified tea, less sugary taste and environmentally friendly packaging. Its newest campaign acknowledges that it is part of a problem of waste in discarded drink containers and, to counter that, encourages more recycling. Enlarge This Image A rendering of a giant bin for Honest Tea's "Great Recycle" on April 30 in Times Square. The company alone generates about 20 million glass bottles and 60 million plastic bottles annually. Over all, Americans used 38.6 billion glass beverage containers, and 71.9 billion plastic beverage bottles in 2010, according to the Container Recycling Institute, an antiwaste organization based in Culver City, Calif., that tracks data on the topic.