•Gillette Razor Local Recycling Solutions – Businesses, gyms, colleges, cities and community organizations are invited to become public drop-off points for the Gillette Razor Recycling Program. Participants interested in becoming a drop-off point are invited to sign up on the program page https://www.terracycle.com/en-US/brigades/gillette-local-recycling. After acceptance to the program, they will be sent an exclusive razor recycling bin developed by TerraCycle and Gillette. Once full, they can simply seal and return the bin to TerraCycle via UPS and a new one will be sent back to them. The address listed in the account will be posted on the publicly available map of local recycling solutions on the Gillette Razor Recycling Program page.

New Loop circular platform promotes reusable consumer product packaging

BRISTOL - The students of Mountain View Elementary School need a new playscape and Principal Mary Hawk wants your help.   Hawk said the school has signed up for an online contest where people can vote daily for their favorite school to win new playground equipment.   Colgate, ShopRite, and TerraCycle, a recycling company that specializes in hard-to-recycle waste, are running the contest, in which one school can win a colorful new playscape made from recycled materials, with a retail value of $55,000.   The prize for the first runner-up school is a village playhouse and slide made from recycled materials, with a retail value of $25,000.   The second runner-up school will get a ShopRite gift card for $1,250. The next six runner-up schools will each receive a ShopRite gift card for $150.   The recycled materials used are oral care waste, according to the contest website. These consist of toothpaste tubes and caps, toothbrushes, toothpaste cartons, toothbrush outer packaging, and floss containers, which are shredded and melted into hard plastic that can be remolded into new products.   The regional contest is running now through June 30, when the winners will be announced. Mountain View is the frontrunner.   There are two ways to help Mountain View.   1. Vote for the school daily at the contest website https://www.terracycle.com/en-US/contests/colgateshopriteplayground2019.   Participants can vote daily using and every separate email address counts as a vote. The first vote will require you to confirm your email to make the vote count. After that, each vote is a click.   2. Send Mountain View your oral care containers to recycle.   Each vote will count as one Playground Credit and each unit of used, post-consumer oral care waste will count as one Playground Credit. A “unit” is defined as 0.02 pounds of used, post-consumer oral care products and packaging.   The kids are all bringing in their used toothpaste tubes now, and they’re getting a good message about recycling as well, Hawk said.   If people want to donate their recyclable dental materials, they can just bring it to the school anytime during the school day, she said. “We would love to have other people in the community contribute, that would be wonderful.”   Hawk said if a dental office, nursing home, hospital, or any organization that uses dental supplies wants to donate, “we will go pick it up from them.”   Mountain View has been looking to replace its rusting, corroded playscape since 2017 when Pete Fusco, director of grounds, did an inspection and declared it unsafe. The pre-kindergarten kids have their own playground, which is usable, but the older students just have hopscotch, basketball courts, and other games painted on the blacktop nearby.   Right now there is just a pile of dirt where the old playscape was behind the school. It was 30 years old and was attacked by vandals at night, leaving sharp jagged holes. Hawk said it would have cost as much as $10,000 to repair.   Tabacco & Sons Builders volunteered to remove the pieces and bring them to Liberty Recycling, but in the end the school didn’t even get money from the scrap metal because there was so much cement attached to it, she said.   Since then, the school has been fundraising for a new playscape, she said. “They’re are just incredibly expensive. They range from $40,000 to $120,000, so it’s a monumental task to try to raise all the money.”   Mountain Drive isn’t the only local elementary school in the contest. Ivy Drive, South Side, and Stafford are too, though they are farther down in the competition: Ivy Drive is currently at seventh place, South Side is 19th, and Stafford is 21st.   “But they already have playscapes,” Hawk said. “We just have a pile of dirt.”   Susan Corica can be reached at 860-973-1802 or scorica@bristolpress.com.  

O que para muitos pode ser considerado lixo, para outros pode ser considerado luxo. E com o Upcyclingisso se torna possível transformando resíduos têxteis em roupas novas. Mas, como? A expressão vem do inglês, que traduzido para o português pode ser entendido como a capacidade de reaproveitar descartes, cujo destino seria o lixo, para a confecção de novos produtos sem o uso de energia.

Local musicians are invited to attend a free recycle and restring event at Dietze Music on Saturday, April 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.     Sponsored by D’Addario and international recycling company TerraCycle, musicians can bring any old instrument strings for recycling and get their electric or acoustic guitars restrung

"Instrument strings have been a huge waste for us in the past, and it's great that D'Addario has teamed up with TerraCycle to provide a program for dealers that confronts this issue,"

美国泰瑞环保公司创始人兼首席执行官汤姆·萨奇说，他对解决塑料垃圾污染问题充满信心，但解决方法有赖于正在发展中的塑料垃圾处理商业运作模式。“我们需要让塑料垃圾回收利用变得有利可图。”

White Pines students who take what they learn in the classroom and put that knowledge to work in the community are up for a national environmental award. A Grade 12 environmental geography class at the Algoma District School Board school is one of 100 finalists for the 2019 Superpower Your School contest. The finalists are split between elementary and high schools. Ten schools, five high school, five elementary, will each win $20,000 of technology products from Staples Canada. The winners will be announced before Earth Day on April 22. White Pines was also a finalist in 2016. The 12 students in Kevin Magilll’s class held tutorials on how to grow microgreens, do composting, demonstrate how to make natural cleaning products, plant trees and maintain a section of the Voyageur Trail at Robertson Cliffs in Goulais River. The activities were done between September and December of last year. “It gets them out of the classroom and into the world to see what we’re learning about in the classroom in the broader community,” Magill said of student involvement outside of White Pines. “That was really beneficial from a teacher’s standpoint of seeing them engage so actively.” His students chose what they wanted to do. Magill worked to make those priorities happen. “I was a facilitator,” he said. “They were the leads, for sure.” Students fromWhite Pines are also helping with the creation of a nature preserve with Lake Superior Watershed Conservancy. Signage highlighting biological information and traditional Indigenous use of flora and fauna and a boardwalk were created by students at the high school. Six groups, including Wilfrid Laurier University, TerraCycle Canada and Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, are Ontario judges for Superpower Your School. Criteria schools will be judged on include incorporating environmentally responsible behaviour into daily school life, demonstrating a long-term commitment to backing a healthier environment and giving the school community, including parents and staff, and the wider community a chance to get involved. For White Pines to be nominated a second time in less than five years is “awesome” for Magill, who teaches geography at the high school. “I think that it shows a great interest in the kids,” he said. “They have an interest in these issues.” His environmental geography class brings together students who have past experience in green projects and others who are new to helping the Earth. “At the end of the day, everyone’s working together and learning,” said Magill, who has taught at White Pines for 15 years. “That experiential learning really is the way to go. That’s what I’ve always preached as a teacher.” Technology White Pines identifies as priorities for the possible $20,000 prize includes colour printers, cameras and MacBook laptops.

A new program from Mountain House allows you to send in your used Mountain House meals to be recycled. Mountain House recently partnered with TerraCycle in order to bring a free recycling program to Mountain House consumers in an effort to reduce waste and keep their meal pouches out of landfills.  

  You even earn reward points which turn into donations for a school or non-profit of your choice. This program is only open to the United States and pouches will need to have all food debris removed from them before sending. If you opt to wash or rinse out your pouch, you will need to make sure it has completely dried out before sending them in.

How to Recycle Mountain House Pouches:

1. Create a free account on TerraCycle.com and join the Free Mountain House recycling program.
2. Save your used Mountain House pouches instead of throwing them away.
3. When you are ready to recycle them, box them all up, log in to your TerraCycle account, click on profile & click “Get Shipping Label” to have a pre-paid shipping label emailed to you. Print off your pre-maid shipping label and attach it to your box.
4. Drop of your box at your nearest UPS store.

While you are at it, browse their other free recycling programs and join those whose products you use frequently. About TerraCycle TerraCycle is an innovative waste management company with a mission to eliminate the idea of waste®. Operating nationally across 21 countries, TerraCycle partners with leading consumer product companies, retailers, cities, and facilities to recycle products and packages, from dirty diapers to cigarette butts, that would otherwise end up being landfilled or incinerated. In addition, TerraCycle works with leading consumer product companies to integrate hard to recycle waste streams, such as ocean plastic, into their products and packaging. TerraCycle has won over 200 awards for sustainability and has donated over $25 million to schools and charities since its founding 15 years ago.