Bristol’s Mountain View School and Southington’s Derynoski Elementary School are in first and second place, respectively, as of Wednesday morning in the Colgate and ShopRite Recycled Playground Challenge through TerraCycle.
Bristol’s Mountain View School and Southington’s Derynoski Elementary School are in first and second place, respectively, as of Wednesday morning in the Colgate and ShopRite Recycled Playground Challenge through TerraCycle.
MSW Consultants, a management consulting firm specializing in the waste and recycling industry, is utilizing a TerraCycle recycling solution in order to minimize the overall waste sent to landfills at MSW’s Orlando, Fla., headquarters.
Some people may wonder what happens to the Brita filters and pitchers when their life cycle has expired. The company works with TerraCycle so that the filters and pitchers can be recycled into items like cutting boards, toothbrushes, and cups. Consumers can drop off their used filters at London Drugs locations in the western provinces, or mail them back (a minimum of three) to Brita for upcycling.
he NC Aquarium on Roanoke Island recently collected and recycled 10,900 cigarette butts (weighing 8.7 pounds) from locations such as designated non-smoking areas on the Aquarium site, beaches and roadsides. And for the record, recycling company TerraCycle is the organization that actually counted the number of cigarette butts. The Ocean Conservancy says cigarette butts are the top item collected globally during coastal cleanups.
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.
Back to Gallery Recycling used to be so simple: aluminum cans, glass bottles, newspapers and paper bags. The sheer amount of disposable items has turned a garbage problem into a garbage crisis, says Tom Szaky, founder and chief executive of TerraCycle. The company’s mission is recycling the previously unrecyclable, such as cigarette butts, contact lenses and chewing gum. As consumers have become more supportive of recyclable products, the options for recycling what we used to deem trash have grown.
That fur you brushed from your pet can be used for valuable purposes, officials say. That fur you brushed from your pet can be used for valuable purposes, officials say. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt, AFP/Getty Images Photo: Hendrik Schmidt, AFP/Getty Images Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Image 1 of 3 That fur you brushed from your pet can be used for valuable purposes, officials say. That fur you brushed from your pet can be used for valuable purposes, officials say. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt, AFP/Getty Images Contact lenses, pet fur and other surprising recyclables 1 / 3 Back to Gallery Recycling used to be so simple: aluminum cans, glass bottles, newspapers and paper bags. The sheer amount of disposable items has turned a garbage problem into a garbage crisis, says Tom Szaky, founder and chief executive of TerraCycle.
Recycling used to be so simple: aluminum cans, glass bottles, newspapers and paper bags. The sheer amount of disposable items has turned a garbage problem into a garbage crisis, says Tom Szaky, founder and chief executive of TerraCycle. The company's mission is recycling the previously unrecyclable, such as cigarette butts, contact lenses and chewing gum.
Recycling used to be so simple: aluminum cans, glass bottles, newspapers and paper bags. The sheer amount of disposable items has turned a garbage problem into a garbage crisis, says Tom Szaky, founder and chief executive of TerraCycle. The company's mission is recycling the previously unrecyclable, such as cigarette butts, contact lenses and chewing gum.
