Quem é que não tem um vestido de festa que nunca mais usou, uma saia, ou qualquer peça deroupa. 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. Em Londres, a grife Lost Property of London recicla sacas de café e as transforma em bolsas, e por aqui temos a Terra Cycle, que cria bolsas a partir de embalagens, e o Projeto Grael que usa velas de barcos para produzir acessórios.

Para cada embalagem enviada, a TerraCycle e Coppertone doarão R$0,02 para o SOS PRAIS, uma ONG que se dedica a conscientização e educação ambiental da população brasileira quanto aos problemas relativos à preservação dos oceanos, praias e meio ambiente costeiro no país. Veja o filme da campanha: Fonte da imagem: http://atitudesustentavel.uol.com.br

“A moda é uma plataforma incrível para o upcycling”, afirma Chiara Gadaleta, consultora de moda e autora do blog Ser Sustentável com Estilo. Como exemplo de empresas nacionais que já estão seguindo esse caminho, Chiara cita a TerraCycle, que  faz bolsas a partir de embalagens, e o Projeto Grael, que usa velas de barcos para a produção de acessórios. “O que precisa ser sempre levado em consideração são dois pontos: a qualidade de acabamento e estética dos produtos”, explica.

Das Unternehmen Terracycle unterstützt das Recycling von leeren Stiften und Korrekturmitteln.

More than half of U.S. product packaging –37 million tons – is discarded in landfills or burned rather than recycled, and packaging comprises nearly one-third of all U.S. landfill waste (US EPA).  Terracycle is an innovative waste reduction solution that encourages producer responsibility for their packaging, and recycles or upcycles packaging and other hard-to-recycle or previously non-recyclable items. Terracycle partners with producers who sponsor specific “brigades” – like chip bags or writing instruments - whereby waste can be collected and re- or up-cycled. Further, Terracycle incentivizes participation by rewarding “points” for items collected that can then be used to support nonprofit organizations of our choice. Harvard has recently expanded single-brigade programs located at several individual sites on campus into a multi-brigade Terracycle program being piloted at Harvard Law School.  We hope to scale the program to become University-wide in the near future.  Harvard community members can now drop off many kinds of waste in bins located throughout the University. Collection of Terracycle items in managed through a partnership between the Office for Sustainability and Harvard Recycling and assisted by the LABBB program (http://www.labbb.com/). The “points” Harvard earns for the waste we collect are donated back to this program. While the total volume of waste collected through Harvard’s Terracycle program is small compared to the total amount we generate, recycle, and compost, Terracycle participates in a new model of voluntary producer responsibility for their environmental impacts.  This producer responsibility lies in contrast to the traditional model in which costs for landfilling packaging after a product is consumed are externalized by product manufacturers – and internalized by taxpayers. Rob Gogan, Harvard’s Recycling & Waste Manager, weighs in on why Terracycle matters: “What I like most about this program is that it involves the producers and TerraCycle has managed to get them to take on some of the responsibility for the next phase in the life of these materials and not pass the cost of disposal/recycling on to consumers.” Get involved today by collecting the waste below and bringing it to the Law School’s Wasserstein Caspersen Clinical building. Find bins on the first floor of the Caspersen Student Center under the ramp leading up to the café in and at the ITS helpdesk in the basement. Harvard’s Brigades (we hope to expand further as Terracycle’s wait list for other brigades opens up – check the Law School Green Team site frequently for an up-to-date list of all brigades):

• Oral care: Any brand toothpaste tubes, toothpaste caps, tooth brushes, floss containers.
• Personal care and beauty packaging: Any brand lipstick cases, mascara tubes, eye shadow cases, shampoo bottles, conditioner bottles, bronzer cases, foundation packaging, body wash containers, soap tubes, soap dispensers, lotion dispensers, shaving foam tubes (no cans), powder cases, lotion bottles, chap stick tubes, lotion tubes, face soap dispensers, face soap tubes, face lotion bottles, face lotion jars, eyeliner cases, eyeliner pencils, eyeshadow tubes, concealer tubes, concealer sticks, lip liner pencils, hand lotion tubes, hair gel tubes, hair paste jars.
• Energy bar wrappers: Any brand foil lined energy bar wrappers, foil lined granola bar wrappers, foil lined meal replacement bar wrappers, foil lined protein bar wrappers, foil lined diet bar wrappers. Clif SHOT wrappers, Clif Twisted Fruit Wrappers, Clif Roks Wrappers, Clif Bloks Wrappers, Clif Gels Wrappers.
• Elmer’s Glue products: Elmer's glue sticks, Elmer's glue bottles, and Elmer's glue tops.
• Tape products: Any brand plastic tape dispensers, plastic tape cores.
• Cheese packaging: Any brand string cheeses packages, individual singles wrappers, singles packages, shredded cheeses packages, grated cheese containers, creamed cheese packaging, cottage cheese tubs, all cheese wrappers.
• Drink pouches: Any Brand aluminum drink pouches, plastic drink pouches.
• Bear Naked packaging: Bear Naked granola bags, Bear Naked trail mix bags, Bear Naked Granola cookie boxes.
• Cookie Packaging: Any brand Cookie Wrappers, Cookie Bags, Individual Cookie Bags, Inner Plastic Trays.
• Chip Bags: Any brand chip bags, tortilla chip bags, pretzel bags, pita chip bags, bagel chip bags, soy crisp bags, salty snack bags.
• Writing Instruments: Any brand pens, pen caps, mechanical pencils, markers, marker caps, highlighters, highlighter caps, permanent markers, permanent markers caps.

Want a Terracycle bin for your office? Contact sustainability@lists.law.harvard.edu to learn more, or with any questions.

I discovered the site TerraCycle through information that was on my gourd organic fruit juice. It said that the packaging could be recycled and the TerraCycle website report stated. Curious as I am, so I went to make a turn and I found their concept quite surprising! TerraCycle proposes to harvest some of the daily waste (yogurt, pencils, printer cartridges, packaging for chips or cakes ...) and send them for free via UPS.United States simply drop the box in a UPS box or in a shop in France and the UPS will look directly at you! ;) In return for this you collect points which are used to receiving gifts eco-friendly or to make donations paid to schools and charities. TerraCycle uses these waste products to create other, totally recyclable, you've already had to perceive in some shops, I'm sure! You have to register on the site and then enroll in "brigades" that correspond to the waste that is to be harvested. This system exists for different countries, not only for the United States: France, Canada, Germany, Spain ... To see the types of products that can retrieve and send, just choose the country in the small bar "Select your country" at the top of the homepage. However, I note a few minor gripes ... For some countries there are very few brands that participate in the experiment. In France for example, only offered to collect the Bic pens. But hey when you do the bottom of the barrel, which is recovered all the old pens that no longer works, it's been enough to send! :) And for the United States, where many brands are available, his little bio: only two brigades of 29 porposant retrieve food packaging! Luckily it was the good because they are two brands that we consume at home ;) But I still adheres to the concept and I will participate by sending my yoghurt pots and gourds my juices!

Fondée en 2011 par Tom Szaky, TerraCycle est une entreprise internationale spécialisée dans le recyclage de déchets traditionnellement considérés non recyclables comme les stylos.

Don’t feel like cooking dinner tonight?  No problem!  Enjoy dinner at Chipotle between 5 and 8pm and 50% of your purchase will go toSustainable Westford.  Chipotle's "Food With Integrity" commitment, makes them a perfect match.  Download your coupon here and print it or show on your smartphone. Sustainable Westford is a non-profit most notably responsible for the Westford Farmers Market.  But it has become much more over the past 2 years.   They are committed to providing education and inspiration on issues of sustainability.  From food to recycling, Sustainable Westford has got "green" issues covered.  The following are a few of its current programs.

“If you were to come to our school and watch during lunchtime, you would see a typical elementary school setting: students eating their lunches, talking about everything from sports to their favorite movies” says Emmorton Elementary Principal, Dr. Peter Carpenter. “But once it’s time to finish lunch, you would see a very different dismissal procedure for our students.” Emmorton Elementary students have recently been learning how to go green by composting and recycling their trash in the school cafeteria. It all started last year, when Emmorton fourth graders got in the spirit of going green in a big way. Students from Ms. Kourtney Hamel and Ms. Jennifer Howard’s classes joined together and entered the Disney Planet Challenge and devised a plan to start composting food scraps from the cafeteria. Their project “From Lunch to a Better Planet” went so well, that the students placed first in the state of Maryland!

It is on people. Voting has just begun in the final round of our first-ever, annual Great Trentonian Bar Bracket Challenge to name the Greatest Bar of Greater Trenton for 2012. It’s First N’ Ten vs. Sportsmen’s Pub, two Hamilton bars that fought their way through the field of 32 in very different ways.