A number of difficult-to-recycle and non-recyclable items, including more than 500 juice pouches, will get a new lease on life, thanks to Belle Aire School’s Trash 4 Cash program.
The Belle Aire PTA decided in the fall of 2010 to collect items to send to Terracycle, a national company that makes new green consumer products out of post-consumer materials, such as backpacks created from drink pouches. Terracycle takes in some 100 materials that would normally get thrown in the trash, and Belle Aire formed brigades to collect three of those items: juice pouches, food storage containers such as re-sealable sandwich bags, and health and beauty product packaging.
TerraCycle, the New Jersey-based company that specializes in upcycling waste packaging into durable consumer products, will soon launch a program for disposable diapers, according to Waste & Recycling News.
Ernie Simpson, global vice president of research and development for Terracycle, says the company is 90 percent finished with the development of a continuous process for collecting, sterilizing and processing used diapers. Certain parts of the diaper will be compostable, and the remaining materials will be upcycled into plastic lumber, pallets and outdoor furniture.
One of the dirtiest and most demonized portions of the municipal waste stream may soon be diverted from its centuries-long decomposition site: landfills.
Developing a recycling solution for used disposable diapers, a biological amalgam of complexity, has been a top priority of the global research and development team at TerraCycle Inc., a Trenton, N.J.-based company whose mission is to create innovative solutions for any waste stream headed to the landfill.
TerraCycle´s team of scientists, led by Ernie Simpson, global vice president of research and development, is about to put a clothespin on its formula that will render dirty diapers into a material suitable for plastic lumber, pallets and outdoor furniture.
One of the dirtiest and most demonized portions of the municipal waste stream may soon be diverted from its centuries-long decomposition site: landfills.
Developing a recycling solution for used disposable diapers, a biological amalgam of complexity, has been a top priority of the global research and development team at TerraCycle Inc., a Trenton, N.J.-based company whose mission is to create innovative solutions for any waste stream headed to the landfill.
TerraCycle´s team of scientists, led by Ernie Simpson, global vice president of research and development, is about to put a clothespin on its formula that will render dirty diapers into a material suitable for plastic lumber, pallets and outdoor furniture.
Sabia que as embalagens dos biscoitos
Nestlé e as da margarina
Doriana, só para citar dois exemplos, podem se transformar em vasos, cadernos e bolsas?
Essas empresas fazem parte de um
programa de reciclagem criado pela
Terracycle, organização que atua em 11 países.
Looking to help save the planet, one piece of would-be trash at a time, and possibly earn a few dollars for their school and for special causes, a trio of Mercer sixth-graders made a pitch that’s caught on like wildfire.
The team of Olivia Bentley, Jesse Carson and Kate Murphy formed the EcoEagles. The focus of the EcoEagles is the creation of two “brigades” through TerraCycle. One is a Drink Pouch Brigade and the second is a Candy Wrapper Brigade. Both are officially registered through TerraCycle and can earn points and/or money for the waste that they collect. The waste being collected is exactly what the brigade titles suggest, juice pouch wrappers and candy wrappers.
Used beauty products, aka trash, can now be put to better use post application through a partnership established between
L’Oréal-owned beauty brand
Garnier and green company
TerraCycle, which makes consumer products from post-consumer materials. The companies are working together to collect used personal-care and beauty packaging through the
Personal Care and Beauty Brigade.
One of the dirtiest and most demonized portions of the municipal waste stream may soon be diverted from landfills.
Developing a recycling solution for used disposable diapers, a biological amalgam of complexity, has been a top priority of the global research and development team at TerraCycle Inc., a Trenton-based company whose mission is to create innovative solutions for waste streams.
TerraCycle’s team of scientists, led by Ernie Simpson, global vice president of research and development, is about to put a clothespin on its formula that will render dirty diapers into a material suitable for plastic lumber, pallets and outdoor furniture.
