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Taco Bell Wants You To Save Your Sauce Packets So They Can Help You Recycle Them
When ordering a meal from Taco Bell, it’s pretty common to grab a handful of sauce packets for the road. Half you’ll use for now to smother on top of your Crunchwrap Supreme or Doritos Locos Tacos. The other half you’ll probably save for later to pull out of the junk drawer when you’ve made a bowl of rice to add some flavor. Normally, you throw out the little sleeve of plastic when you’re done using it.
But Taco Bell wants you to do something else—send them back to be recycled. You may be thinking how on earth will those little packets of mild, hot, and diablo sauce being recycled make any kind of difference? Well, 8 billion end up in landfills every year.
Taco Bell is partnering with TerraCycle, a company known for recycling hard-to-recycle items, to create a program where customers collect the sauce packets to eventually ship back. Here’s how it works. Go onto Taco Bell’s website, and create an account for the Sauce Packet Recycling Pilot Program. Start collecting the packets in a box and once full, print the label provided by TerraCycle for free shipping and send it off! “Recycling just got saucy,” as the company’s website so perfectly puts it.
From there, the recycling company will clean them and melt them down to form into a plastic to be used for numerous other items. Who knew you could help out the planet so much when ordering 12 tacos and a cheesy quesadilla?
Taco Bell Wants You To Save Your Sauce Packets So They Can Help You Recycle Them
So don't throw them away.
When ordering a meal from Taco Bell, it’s pretty common to grab a handful of sauce packets for the road. Half you’ll use for now to smother on top of your Crunchwrap Supreme or Doritos Locos Tacos. The other half you’ll probably save for later to pull out of the junk drawer when you’ve made a bowl of rice to add some flavor. Normally, you throw out the little sleeve of plastic when you’re done using it.
But Taco Bell wants you to do something else—send them back to be recycled. You may be thinking how on earth will those little packets of mild, hot, and diablo sauce being recycled make any kind of difference? Well, 8 billion end up in landfills every year.
Taco Bell is partnering with TerraCycle, a company known for recycling hard-to-recycle items, to create a program where customers collect the sauce packets to eventually ship back. Here’s how it works. Go onto Taco Bell’s website, and create an account for the Sauce Packet Recycling Pilot Program. Start collecting the packets in a box and once full, print the label provided by TerraCycle for free shipping and send it off! “Recycling just got saucy,” as the company’s website so perfectly puts it.
From there, the recycling company will clean them and melt them down to form into a plastic to be used for numerous other items. Who knew you could help out the planet so much when ordering 12 tacos and a cheesy quesadilla?
Mississauga eye doctors now offering to recycle contact lenses
by Steve Pecar on August 12, 2021
in Lifestyle
Eye doctors throughout Mississauga are trying to do their part for the environment by reducing waste and keeping otherwise non-recyclable disposable contact lenses and their packaging out of the landfill.
Through the Bausch + Lomb Every Contact Counts Recycling Program, consumers are invited to bring all brands of disposable contact lenses and their blister pack packaging to participating eye doctor locations to be recycled.
“Contact lenses are one of the forgotten waste streams that are often overlooked due to their size and how commonplace they are in today's society," said Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle.
TerraCycle is a waste management company that partners with leading consumer product companies, retailers and cities to recycle products and packages.
"Programs like the Bausch + Lomb Every Contact Counts Recycling Program allows eye doctors to work within their community and take an active role in preserving the environment, beyond what their local municipal recycling programs are able to provide," continued Szaky. "By creating this recycling initiative, our aim was to provide an opportunity where whole communities are able to collect waste alongside a national network of public drop-off locations all with the unified goal to increase the number of recycled contact lenses and their associated packaging, thereby reducing their impact on landfills."
Below is a list of local eye doctors participating in the program:
- Dr. Lisa Lo Optometrist, L5R 3E7 Mississauga 30 Eglinton Ave. W., Unit 9
- Queen Spectacle Streetsville, L5M1L4 Mississauga 201 Queen St. S.
- Vision Centre At Trelawny, L5N 6S3 Mississauga 3899 Trelawny Circle, Unit 6
- VIP Optical, L5A3Y1 Mississauga 377 Burnhamthrope Rd. E.
- Osmond Optical, L5C4P3 Mississauga Unit 23 E&F-1177 Central Parkway W.
- Meadowvale Optometry, L5L3T8 Mississauga 6956 Financial Dr.
- Dr. A. Kara & Associates, L5N 2W7 Mississauga 6975 Meadowvale Town Centre Circle
- Dr. K. Fong, Dr. M. Chiu & Associates, L5B 2C9 Mississauga 100 City Centre Dr.
- Erin Mills Eye Exam Clinic, L5M 4Z5 Mississauga 5100 Erin Mills Pkwy.
- IGO Optometrist, L5W 1X1 Mississauga 735 Twain Ave.
- Sheridan Eye Clinic, L5K 1T9 Mississauga 2225 Erin Mills Pkwy.
- Trillium Eye Care, L5G 1H9 Mississauga 515 Lakeshore Rd. E.
- FYiDoctors Mississauga-Port Credit, L5H 1G6 Mississauga 228 Lakeshore R. W, Suite 6
Shipham school to raise money by recycling
A North Somerset School has pledged to accept hard-to-recycle plastics from residents to prevent them from going to landfill sites.
Shipham First School has signed up to a project managed by recycling company, TerraCycle which will award points to be later converted into money for the school.
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Of course, there are still some items which end up in your regular bin – and therefore in landfill.
But thanks to TerraCycle, which partners with individual collectors and companies to collect and recycle almost any sort of waste, and other schemes, it is getting easier to give old items a new lease of life and take your recycling to the next level.
Here are seven ideas for starters.
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Lots of plastics are labelled as “not yet recyclable”. Truth is, most things can be recycled, just not in your local council pick-up.
Soft plastic such as grocery bags, bread bags and crisp packets can be dropped off at larger Tesco stores, while Boots are encouraging people to bring in their beauty and dental products for recycling.
Check out TerraCycle, a scheme set up to recycle those “non-recyclables”, such as cheese packets, Pringles tubes and razors.
Kickstart: Finding partners, opening doors
Finding partners, opening doors
The Society of Plastics Engineers' PlastiVan program has visited hundreds — if not thousands — of classrooms over the years to introduce kids to plastics and STEM programs in general.
But how do you reach out to kids most in need of exposure to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers while also opening doors to a more diverse workforce? As Sarah Kominek writes, SPE looked to partner with a someone already working with kids in urban Detroit schools: Keith Young, founder of Detroit-based science research lab Ecotek Science at Work. This summer, with many education programs sidelined or shuffled to virtual content only, Young and PlastiVan hoped to see some 1,000 students from fourth through 12th grade for its new program in Detroit. But by June, about 6,000 had taken part. Alumni from Young's Ecotek program also are among the first Black educators for PlastiVan: Evan Morton and Briana Young. "I want to help lead the next generation of young scientists find their passion," Morton said. Sarah's story on PlastiVan's work in Detroit is just one part of the special report Plastics News staffers produced this week about diversity in the plastics industry. You can go to www.plasticsnews.com/Excuse me, but you can recycle that stapler
I know a lot of people have already returned to their offices. Or they never left them. (Or they work on the manufacturing floor, so may have been putting in extra time at work.)
But with an estimated 44 percent of U.S. workers preparing to return to the office, recycling group TerraCycle says it is gearing up collection programs to meet the needs of a changing office environment.
"No matter if you're implementing a hybrid schedule or if you're planning to return to the office in full force this fall, our workplaces will likely begin to look a lot different compared to how we left them," Tom Szaky, CEO and founder of TerraCycle, said.
TerraCycle says its Zero Waste Boxes are designed to be an easy recycling point for "nearly every conceivable piece of office waste" not normally recycled through regular recycling systems.
Similar TerraCycle Zero Waste Boxes were developed to help deal with personal protective equipment. An office products waste box can be used for binders, labels, binder clips, stickers, desk organizers and even staplers. (Just make sure you don't trash the good stapler.)
There are also boxes for media storage such as CDs and memory sticks and electronic waste.
TerraCycle then sorts through boxes sent to it to reclaim material and turn it back into new products.
Early warning systems?
I'm sure you've noticed that masks are coming back for many communities and businesses. U.S. automakers that had just dropped mask requirements earlier this summer reinstated them starting today.
Unlike the early weeks of the pandemic, health systems appear to have plenty of protective equipment on hand, but the resurging coronavirus has communities keeping a close eye on conditions.
But what if there was some way to detect if the virus is in the air in an office or classroom? Opteev, a company majority owned by auxiliary equipment maker Novatec Inc., is beginning to market the ViraWarn, a plug-in air sensing system that it says can detect the virus.
"With more people dying from COVID-19 in the first six months of 2021 than all of 2020, it's clear that the pandemic is far from behind us," said Conrad Bessemer, Novatec CEO and co-founder of Opteev. "Less than half of Americans are fully vaccinated and dangerous COVID-19 variants have been identified. New procedures and technologies are needed to stop the spread of COVID-19 this year while allowing people to enjoy their lives."
Catherine Kavanaugh has more about the system here, and Opteev says ViraWarn is being tested by outside groups.
THE FACE BEHIND THE ATHING MU MURAL
DEAN “RAS” INNOCENZI IS A GRAPHIC DESIGNER, VIDEOGRAPHER, AND LOCAL GRAFFITI ARTIST, PAINTING THE TOWN WITH PORTRAITS FOR OVER 12 YEARS. THE 37-YEAR-OLDS’ LATEST MURAL AT THE TERRACYCLE BUILDING FEATURES OLYMPIC ATHLETE ATHING MU.
“I feel Athing showed there’s no reason people can’t accomplish great things, coming out of Trenton,” Innocenzi said. “People don’t realize how many amazing people have come from Trenton: Elvin Bethea, Richie Cole, Al Downing, Ernie Kovacs, Dahntay Jones; the list goes on and on of great people that have gone on to achieve great things coming from Trenton.”
This most recent artwork was painted just last week, a couple of days before the Jersey Fresh Jam. The artist’s work is featured at the back of the building, portraying Mu just after she won her world record-breaking sprint.
“Athing’s accomplishments at the 2021 Olympics put her right up there among these all-time greats from Trenton. So in painting the mural of Athing, I hope it can inspire and remind people that people continue to do great things coming out of Trenton, NJ and hopefully, Athing can inspire young people to be dedicated and work hard to achieve any goal in life,” Inocenzi said.
Inocenzi started in Trenton, spray painting with friends across the city before joining Leon Rainbow and learning there was an entirely legitimate art scene in Trenton. “I guess they saw something that I might have had some potential, ’cause they taught me a lot,” Inocenzi said.
Innocenzi started to create life-life portraits of celebrities and ordinary people in Trenton alike beginning in 2013. He works on a greyscale having up to 9 different cans of spray paint to even out the tones. “One of the key things with spray paint that makes it easier and faster is when working in grayscale, I have nine different shades of color from black to white,” Inocenzi said. “I tend to work from dark to light. I like to lay in the darker tones and then layer on top of that”
Inocenzi will continue his work on memorials and murals celebrating the people of the city of Trenton. “I try to do things that are relevant not only to me but other people because I would like my work to be not so much about me and looking cool, but something that has a deeper meaning,” Innocenzi said. To learn more about Innocenzi, check out a previous article at this link.