O Carrefour estreou em França um novo site de e-commerce designado de Loop, no seguimento da iniciativa recentemente lançada por várias grandes multinacionais para testar a reutilização de embalagens de modo a reduzir os resíduos.

They are also attempting to do their part for the environment through the implementation of an in-store recycling program — with the help of TerraCycle — where customers can drop off the plastic packaging, from any brand, with confidence knowing they will be properly recycled.

Some companies would like to use more sustainable packaging but feel the nature of their product makes it difficult or impossible with available options. Recycling facilities can’t accept the flexible plastic pouches Buddy Fruits uses for their small-batch fresh fruit purees. Sustainability is an important part of their brand, but the highly perishable product needs to be as airtight as possible. While searching for a more sustainable and equally secure alternative, BuddyFruits has partnered with  TerraCycle. Terracycle collects and recycles hard to recycle products and makes new materials and products. Buddy Fruits customers can request an envelope from TerraCycle to ship-in their empty pouches. Many other food and beverage companies, like White Leaf Provisions, partner with TerraCycle for the same reasons as Buddy Fruits.

TerraCycle had a glimmer of a start when Tom Szaky, then a 19 year old university student, decided to drop out of school so he could build a company. His first company made “organic fertilizer from worm poop,” according to Emel Simpson, TerraCycle’s vice president of research and development. While that certainly wasn’t a recycling company, there was a re-use component since he started getting bottles from major soda companies which he used to bottle his fertilizer.

Herbal Essences a fait équipe avec TerraCycle, une compagnie verte spécialisée en récupération, pour la création de bouteilles en plastique recyclé.

Herbal Essences a fait équipe avec TerraCycle, une compagnie verte spécialisée en récupération, pour la création de bouteilles en plastique recyclé.

In other news, Amorepacific has signed an MOU with TerraCycle. According to the accord,  Amorepacific will  recycle  at least 100 tons of empty plastic bottles each year for three years; increase the ratio of using recycled empty bottles for its products and furnishings 10% in the first year, 20% in the second and 30% in the third year; and achieve 100% recycling of empty bottles and 50% of those used for products and furnishings by 2025.

As consumers have become more supportive of recyclable products, the options for recycling what we used to deem trash have grown. Major manufacturers are partnering with companies such as TerraCycle to recover their (and sometimes even competitors’) products. Cities and counties have ramped up recycling programs to accept a wider variety of items.

Colgate, ShopRite and TerraCycle, a recycling company that specializes in hard-to-recycle waste, ran the contest, in which one school would win a colorful new playscape made from recycled materials, with a retail value of $55,000.

Colgate, ShopRite and TerraCycle, a recycling company that specializes in hard-to-recycle waste, ran the contest, in which one school would win a colorful new playscape made from recycled materials, with a retail value of $55,000.