TERRACYCLE NEWS

ELIMINATING THE IDEA OF WASTE®

Recycled fashion, zero waste touted for Sustainable Living expo

“We’re trying to avoid generating waste by looking at alternatives,” said Michael Brown, director of the Ecology Action Center in Normal, one of the sponsors of the event. There will be a nonrecyclable bag of potato chips in vendors’ lunches but the bags will be collected by a local group and sent to Terracycle, a company that makes products from items that can’t be recycled.

Vamos de Upcycling

Quem é que não tem um vestido de festa que nunca mais usou, uma saia, ou qualquer peça de roupa. Pensou em doar? Antes disso saiba que você transformar isso numa peça moderna e com o mesmo valor tanto fashion quanto financeiro. Essa prática antiga hoje em dia recebe até nome: upcylcing. Além de ganhar uma roupa nova, você ainda gasta menos e consume menos.

Honest Tea Launches “The Great Recycle” In Effort to Boost Recycling Nationally

In a show of support for New York City’s pledge to double recycle efforts by 2017, Honest Tea and partners GrowNYC, Recyclebank, Coca-Cola Live Positively, Global Inheritance and Five-Boro Green Services will place a 30-foot tall recycling bin in Times Square and attempt to crowd-source recycle more than 45,000 plastic, glass and aluminum beverage containers in ten hours. The plastic bottles collected will be recycled into essential gardening supplies including shovels, watering cans and plastic lumber, which will be used to build and cultivate an urban garden for PS 102, an elementary school in Harlem. “National recycling rates are nowhere near where they need to be,” says Honest Tea co-founder and TeaEO Seth Goldman. “Honest Tea is committed to finding ways to help Americans recycle more. We’ve helped install recycling bins in our hometown of Bethesda, MD and now it’s time to expand our efforts.” At the event in Times Square, bottles will act as currency. People who bring bottles down to “The Great Recycle” will be awarded points for each bottle recycled, that can be redeemed at the onsite TRASHed Recycling Store run by Global Inheritance. There, points can be redeemed for rewards such as cold bottles of Honest Tea, t-shirts and reusable bags, jeans, video games, and tickets to sporting events, concerts and Broadway shows.

Winning Consumers Dropps by Dropps

Years before there were Pods, there were Dropps. Back in 2005, Jonathan Propper, CEO of Cot’n Wash Inc., Philadelphia, listened to his wife complain about lugging laundry detergent bottles and measuring cups up and down basement steps. He knew he could find an easier way. Propper’s “Aha!” moment led to the development of Dropps Laundry Pacs and the birth of an entirely new laundry category.

Sykler og resirkulerer i kampen mot kreft

Skal sykle Birkebeinerrittet - Jeg er i gang med et innsamlingsprosjekt for Aktiv Mot Kreft. Begge mine foreldre er gått bort som følge av kreftsykdom, og dette er for meg et meget viktig formål. Prosjektet sponses av venner og bekjente mot at jeg i august sykler Birkebeinerrittet, uttaler Thoresen i en pressemelding fra TerraCycle. Han samler nemlig inn penger til prosjektet sitt gjennom resirkulering også, ikke bare gjennom sykling. Det skjer gjennom TerraCycle, som er forholdsvis nytt i Norge, men veletablert i blant annet USA, Storbritannia og Sverige. Resirkuleringen skjer ved at man sender inn søppel som ellers sees på som vanskelig å gjenvinne. Til gjengjeld får man en slags pant, som doneres til veldedige formål. I Norge er det foreløpig kun embalasje fra en type kaffekapsler som kan gjenvinnes på denne måten. Kaffemaskiner som bruker kapsler med kaffe, te og andre pulver til å lage varme drikker er blitt svært populært i Norge den siste tiden, men bruken fører til mye avfall i forhold til for eksempel tradisjonelle espressomaskiner. I dag samler Thoresen inn kapslene og emballasjen fra sitt eget hjem, men håper å også kunne sette opp en innsamling på arbeidsplassen sin også, ettersom alle hans kolleger mottok en Tassimo-maskin til jul. Det er nemlig kun denne typen kaffemaskiner som deltar i TerraCycle i Norge.

Todo se transforma

Hasta los paquetitos de de jugos en polvo pueden reciclarse. Como ejemplo, la marca Tang y la organización TerraCycle, ya recolectaron medio millon de envases que seran utilizados como materia prima para fabricar mochilas, cartucheras, tarjeteros, cuadernos y bolsas amigables con el medio ambiente. La consigna es unirse en grupos (puede ser desde una familia  hasta una escuela) y juntar los sobrecitos. La novedad es que los sobres son canjeados por puntos que equivalen a dinero,  que luego se donan  a escuelas públicas o organizaciones sin fines de lucro que elijan quienes se unan para recolectar. De esta manera se puede colaborar con el medio ambiente y a su vez con  las entidades que mas lo necesiten.  Para participar www.terracycle.com.ar

Cause Marketing Lessons from the TerraCycle Experience: Albe Zakes to Present Lessons from 'Turning Waste into Wonder'

Since 2001, TerraCycle has risen from a dorm-room start-up selling worm poop-based plant food into a internationally-known growth business. Its focus: providing consumer packaged goods companies and retailers with cause marketing programs and nonprofits with fundraising opportunities. TerraCycle has over 70,000 schools and charities collecting waste globally and they have earned collectively almost 4 million dollars just by recycling more! Whether you work for a large company, a start-up or an NGO, you'll pick up valuable lessons from Global VP Albe Zakes based on Terracyle's decade of turning "waste into wonder".