Cigarette butt receptacles will be installed in key areas of Port Washington as part of a recycling program geared towards keeping cigarette butts off the streets and out of waterways, North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and local advocacy group Residents Forward announced Thursday via a press release.
The would-be pollution from the cigarette butts will be recycled instead. A team from a local business, Spectrum Designs, will empty the receptacles and transfer the waste to TerraCycle. They will then separate and melt the cigarette butts into hard plastic to be remolded for use in new products.
Hey haters, back off. If your company isn’t serving a customer, then why does it exist? Does that mean every company makes the world a better place? Unless you’re Tesla or TerraCycle, that is probably an overclaim.
Earlier this year, the beloved drugstore hair care brand announced the launch of their Beach Plastic collection, which featured fan-favorite formulas repackaged in upcycled bottles made from ocean plastic. (Little known fact: More often than not, plastic particles from ocean cleanup efforts are sadly, often considered non-recyclable due to levels of dirt and exposure to nature.) To break the vicious cycle, they've joined forces with
TerraCycle, a company that specializes in recycling hard-to-recycle waste, to launch a nationwide take-back program to encourage people to recycle their empty bottles in addition to saving an estimated
three tons of plastic that would’ve otherwise ended up in the trash — or even worse, on a sandy beachfront.
The school will earn one ‘Playground Credit’ for each unit (“unit” defined as 0.02 lbs of used, post-consumer oral care products and packaging) of oral care waste, such as empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers, sent to TerraCycle for recycling. An additional credit is earned for every online vote cast for the school at www.meijer.com/colgate or www.terracycle.com/en-US/contests/colgatemeijerplayground2019 by June 30th. The grand prize is a playground made from recycled oral care waste collected through the Colgate® Oral Care Recycling Program, a free, national program operated by Colgate and TerraCycle.
Herbal Essences a fait équipe avec
TerraCycle, une compagnie verte spécialisée en récupération, pour la création de bouteilles en plastique recyclé.
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.
Local musicians are invited to attend a free recycle and restring event at Murphy’s Guitars in Bountiful, UT on Saturday June 8, 2019from 10:00 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.
PTO is still working on raising funds for renovating the playground at Je-Neir. You can also Vote every day for Je-Neir @ https://www.terracycle.com/en-US/contests/78 to help us win a playground. Vote every day until June 30th!!!! Please!!
For no cost to the participating restaurant, they are supplied with a Sidewalk Buttler receptacle, as well as materials needed to ship collected butts to TerraCycle, where they will be recycled. Cigarette filters can be turned into plastic pellets, and they can be turned into things like pallets and park benches. The organic materials left over are then composted by TerraCycle facilities.
