Local musicians are invited to attend a free recycle and restring event at American Guitar Boutique in Phenix City, AL on Saturday June 29, 2019 from 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM. Sponsored by D’Addario and TerraCycle, musicians can bring any old instrument strings for recycling and get their electric or acoustic guitars restrung with D’Addario NYXL or Nickel Bronze Acoustic strings. Old strings collected during the event will be recycled through Playback, D’Addario’s free, national recycling program.

By 1965, the Solid Waste Disposal Act went into effect, creating a national office to tackle solid waste, and in 1976, Congress passed the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, requiring facilities to line the dumps, collect leachate for proper disposal, and vent and burn the resulting methane.

According to Tom Szaky’s The Future of Packaging, things snowballed quickly.

The campaign sends much of the collected waste to TerraCycle, a company that is able to recycle the butts, turning the plastic into industrial-grade products like plastic pallets. Vancouver, where people litter a million cigarette butts a day, was the first city to pioneer this partnership with TerraCycle, installing 110 cigarette butt recycling bins in its downtown area in 2013.

The campaign sends much of the collected waste to TerraCycle, a company that is able to recycle the butts, turning the plastic into industrial-grade products like plastic pallets. Vancouver, where people litter a million cigarette butts a day, was the first city to pioneer this partnership with TerraCycle, installing 110 cigarette butt recycling bins in its downtown area in 2013.

The campaign sends much of the collected waste to TerraCycle, a company that is able to recycle the butts, turning the plastic into industrial-grade products like plastic pallets. Vancouver, where people litter a million cigarette butts a day, was the first city to pioneer this partnership with TerraCycle, installing 110 cigarette butt recycling bins in its downtown area in 2013.

Set Your Intentions “I think the big first step is simply being mindful about all the waste that we create on a daily basis,” says Sarah Paiji Yoo, cofounder & CEO of Blueland, a cleaning company that hopes to eliminate single-use plastic packaging. “That increased awareness has led me to seek and apply easy solutions across my daily life.” Yoo recommends taking stock of your disposal pain points and finding resources online, like Terracycle (a collection service that can recycle almost anything) and Catalog Choice (Finally! An easy way to stop all the junk mail), to make smart and sustainable choices about waste.

Tom Szaky Founder and CEO, TerraCycle “To prepare for the unpredictable and minimize risk to the company, I meet regularly with my finance team and business leads to review budgets. We look at opportunities and risks and, as a company, operate off of a ‘worst-case’ budget so that we don’t get into a situation where we’ve overspent. We also have a committee that reviews new and incremental business opportunities from all angles before they are finalized, which keeps us from overlooking a detail that could be problematic later on.”

Alicia Forero is with TerraCycle, a company that specializes in hard-to-recycle things like cigarette butts and dirty diapers. She says one of the biggest drivers of recycling today is the desire to turn a profit

此外，色彩繽紛的瓶子不被回收商青睞，TerraCycle回收公司全球項目經理莎拉．提特(Sarah Teeter)表示，「回收商只會回收有利可圖的東西。到目前為止，只有透明和白色塑料賣得了錢。」

Recycling contamination occurs when otherwise well-meaning people put things into the recycling bin that can’t be recycled. Our city faced a $65,000 fine for contaminated recycling last year. One of the primary culprits is plastic bags in the bins, which can only be recycled at stores. At our office, yes, I’m that person you will see picking through the recycling bin on our floor to get out all the plastic straws (not recyclable) put in with the plastic cups (recyclable) because people either don’t know, or are not willing, to separate them. Know what goes in, what doesn’t and help educate others. Besides curbside recycling, there are two companies who can help with plastics recycling. Preserve Products has a “Gimme 5” initiative and will take back yogurt containers, plastic caps, dip containers and more — plus all their own recycled plastic products. Terracycle also offers infrastructure for community recycling programs for everything from plastic baby gear to food pouches to action figures.