A partir de agora, Santo Antônio da Patrulha integra o sistema apresentado pela TerraCycle, programa que atende 21 países e recicla o “não reciclável” comumente. Conforme a diretora de Meio Ambiente da prefeitura, Jordana Borba, com isso, a secretaria municipal da Agricultura e Meio Ambiente amplia o cuidado com as questões ambientais.

From March 1 to April 13, resident design visionaries TerraCycle® and the Trenton Downtown Association will present “Scrapped: A Collection of Upcycled Artwork.” Designed to encourage viewers to question their day-to-day lifestyle and their impact on the planet, the exhibit, located at the BSB Gallery in Trenton, curates artwork created entirely from reclaimed materials.

“Creativity and community are at the heart of what we do, so when the Trenton Downtown Association approached us about the chance to showcase the transformative nature of art in the city,we jumped at the opportunity,” said TerraCycle CEO and founder Tom Szaky “From hosting our very first annual graffiti jam 15 years ago to decking out global offices in what many would consider “trash,” Scrapped is in line with our mission to change perspectives and connect people through shared experiences.”

The collection of upcycled art, which includes on-site installations and mixed media pieces of varying scales and styles, illustrates the power of unconventional thoughtand includes works from acclaimed artists Leon Rainbow, Ede Sinkovics, Heemin Moon as well as TerraCycle employees. All the featured art utilizes discarded and otherwise “scrapped” materials including old and broken toys, littered plastic collected off of beaches and shorelines, wine corks and cigarette butts, to name only a few.

Scrapped will debut with an opening reception at the BSB Gallery on Friday, March 1, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., where TerraCycle will discuss its mission Eliminating the Idea of Waste®, how it has diverted over seven billion pieces of traditionally unrecyclable waste from landfills and unveil a special collaborative work put together by its employees using found materials.

“Over the last decade Trenton has reinvented itself as a budding destination for the arts,” said Tom Gilmour, Executive Director of the Trenton Downtown Association. “Through grant funding generously provided by the George H. and Estelle M. Sands Foundation and Isles, Inc., the Trenton Downtown Association opened the BSB Gallery to support local artist, curate exhibits like Scrapped and act as a platform to recognize all the extraordinary art being created in our Capital City.”

The club donates gently-used balls to The First Tee, a Salinas-based nonprofit that teaches life skills through golf. Older balls are recycled through Terracycle, a New Jersey-based recycling company.

Working on its dedication to develop solutions for sustainable laundry, recently, Tide revealed its partnership with TerraCycle, an international recycler. As per TerraCycle, the new joint venture will help the latest Eco-Box packaging to be completely reusable from bag to box. Latest Tide Eco-Box is designed in such a way that it is eco-friendly. The new highly-concentrated formula of Tide is developed with thirty percent less water & its package has sixty percent less plastic as compared to the bottled size. The modernized boxed design doesn’t need excessive secondary packaging & needs minimum space compared to the bottle. This means that less trucks are required to deliver it to the shops. Isaac Hellemn who is P&G’s Brand Manager stated that the next logical step for them is TerraCycle because they want to assure that not only the product is developed for environment friendly usage & shipping, but also that every single component can be recycled and recycled with the help of a simplified method. With the help of Tide Eco-Box Recycling Program, customers can reuse the complete packaging from Eco-Box for no cost. Once they are done with Eco-Box, consumers can remove waste of plastic from cardboard box & mail it with the help of shipping label, which is already paid for. After collection, plastic is cleaned & melted into hard plastic, which can be reused to create novel recycled products. Moreover, every pound of waste sent to TerraCycle, collectors can get a dollar which can be donated to a non-profit, charitable firm or school of their preference. In order to recycle cardboard box, consumers can put in their address into the interactive map at terracycle.com & look for recycling choices, which includes drop-off areas of TerraCycle & municipal recycling programs. Tom Szaky who is Chief Executive Officer of TerraCycle stated that every year over seventy-nine percent of waste which is present in landfills can be recycled. TerraCycle with firms such as Tide, puts in a lot of efforts every day to decrease the number & combine single-use packaging into novel products. The proposed recycling program is open to anyone, be it school, community firm, office or individual. It is predicted that the pilot program will be introduced in Paris metro area this spring and also in New York, which includes areas of Pennsylvania & New Jersey.

Com uma necessidade cada vez maior das grandes empresas trabalharem com sustentabilidade, surgiu a TerraCycle, uma companhia especializada em reciclagem.

Hoje parece muito hype fazer compostagem caseira e ter canudinhos reutilizáveis. Mas gerações atrás tinham hábitos ecologicamente muito mais corretos e viáveis do que os atuais.

It means everything that would come on campus could either be composted, recycled or repurposed into something else.   Author: Nina Mehlhaf Published: 6:06 PM PST February 20, 2019 PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon has always been a leader when it comes to recycling, but there's a lot of stuff you can't throw in your curbside bin. Jesuit High School in Portland is trying change that for their families. The private, Catholic school has an ambitious plan to become a "zero waste" school. It means everything that would come on campus could either be composted, recycled or repurposed into something else. Recycling is already front and center in their cafeterias. There's the normal receptacles for paper and cans. But new bins collect odd plastics brought from home by students. Those can't go to the city curbside. They are destined for a conveyor belt across the country in New Jersey.     A revolutionary company called Terra Cycle is teaming up with schools and businesses nationwide to get those drink pouches or markers shipped here. They're shredded into tiny bits, then pummeled into pellets. Those pellets are bought by other companies to be made into new plastic products: gardening or garbage cans, frisbees, plates, the options are endless.     "Ideally we're going towards becoming a zero waste school, which is a huge undertaking because it means everything we take into the school has an end purpose and an end life," said Jesuit physics teacher Jennie Kuenz, who's headed up the recycling program. It's become a movement that kids are getting behind. A few years ago, the school started an environmental science elective class. Grace Wetzler is a junior and has taken the class. "We made a water filter and studied micro-plastics in the ocean and that kind of inspired me to look at what we throw away and how that pretty much ends up in the ocean," she said. Alex Guitteiu, a senior, agrees. "Yeah it's definitely a mindset shift. I think it has to do with your perception of when you throw something away, what happens to that." "You can see students applying what they have learned and internalizing it and recognizing that their decisions actually matter," says Kuenz. Becoming zero waste will realistically be a 10-year process, but Jesuit could become the first Oregon school to do it. They're already switching to refillable dry erase markers, looking at pumps instead of packets for ketchup and mustard, and yes, straws are going bye-bye. Students are on board, knowing the future relies on them. "If my generation doesn't start fixing all our problems, nobody is going to fix it, now is the time," said junior Elizabeth Kapellakis.    

I watched the conveyor belt whiz past and recognized the brand of toothbrush I use. And was that the same takeout sushi container I get all the time? Could those plastic items heading to the landfill have been mine? As the founder of Sea Hugger, a nonprofit organization working to protect the marine environment from plastic pollution, I was invited to tour Recology’s San Francisco Recycling Center to see how the recycling process works. Recology is employee-owned and committed to recycling as much waste as possible. But with the average American producing 4.4 pounds of trash per day, the sheer volume of materials that pass through the facility is astounding. According to Robert Reed, Recology’s Public Relations Manager, “Six hundred tons of material comes through the tipping floor each day, that’s equivalent to the weight of 38 Muni buses.” Recology said the most efficient way to manage our waste isn’t to rely on recycling; it is to consume fewer single-use items. I stood on that tipping floor and saw those muni bus-sized piles of rubbish spilling out of Recology’s trucks into a massive jumble of paper, plastic, glass, and metal. The beep beep beep of the reversing trucks and the cacophony of crashes, crunches, and breaking glass assaulted my ears. As did the unpleasant odor; it was as if I had stepped into my recycling bin. We left the tipping floor and climbed a flight of stairs to the landing of the first conveyor belt where the initial sorting is done by hand. The conveyor belt moved at high speed as five sorters stood on each side grabbing plastic bags and tossing them into a shoot marked Landfill. Now that China stopped buying our recyclables, the plastic wholesale market has dropped from $120 to just $5 a ton, and there is no market for plastic bags, which despite being banned in San Francisco in 2007, were found throughout the facility in startling numbers. The second stage of the sorting involved an optical sorting machine that shot a blast of air when it identified a piece of plastic ejecting it into a large bin for baling. There are two issues here: first, the optics cannot identify black plastic on the black conveyor belt; and second, no small items (straws, utensils, lids, stirrers, etc.) are recognized by the optics. Off to the landfill they go. I hear the excuse all the time, “I use single-use plastic, but I recycle it, so it’s OK.” Unfortunately, that is not the truth. Approximately 91% of all plastic waste ever created has never been recycled. I witnessed this shocking statistic while standing alongside the conveyor belt. There is no way to ensure that everything you place in your recycling bin and wheel to the curb each week is actually getting recycled. “Low oil prices make it cheaper for companies to just make plastic from scratch,” according to TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky. There is little incentive to use recycled materials, and even if all plastic was recycled, it is made from crude oil and cannot be recycled indefinitely. At some point it is discarded, takes centuries to degrade, and current scientific research shows it is toxic to us and our environment. Are we really OK with this? We are at the tipping point. We now know that plastic exists in one form or another forever and has caused severe damage to our oceans. An estimated 100 million aquatic animals die every year because they mistake plastic debris for food. If this does not disturb you, consider that microplastic (plastic pieces less than five millimeters long) has been found in our water supply, soil, salt, beer, seafood, bottled water, and has recently been discovered in human feces. Marine plastic is impacting our food chain and as it breaks down, releases greenhouse gases contributing to climate change. Furthermore, the health of the ocean is unequivocally vital to the health of our planet. Americans consume twice as much as those in developing nations, and our buying patterns affect what large corporations offer. If we demand change, support ecologically responsible companies, and replace our consumables with reusables, our collective voice will be heard. A great example of this is when the public’s demand for organic produce and ingredients persuaded mainstream food producers to offer more organic options. As one of the wealthiest nations, Americans have a lot of power to affect change. If the pen is mightier than the sword, then the wallet is mightier than the corporate board. Let’s stop assuming we can recycle our way out of the plastic pollution epidemic and refuse, rethink, and reuse. We caused this problem. Together we can fix it. Shell Cleave is the founder of Sea Hugger, a nonprofit organization based in Half Moon Bay, CA is focused on eliminating marine plastic pollution.

Building on its commitment to developing sustainable laundry solutions, Tide announced its strategic partnership with international recycling leader TerraCycle. This will allow the new Tide Eco-Box packaging to be 100 percent recyclable from bag to box. The new Tide Eco-Box is designed to be environmentally friendly. Its new ultra-concentrated Tide formula is produced with 30 percent less water, and its package has 60 percent less plastic than the equivalent bottled size. The boxed design doesn’t require wasteful secondary packaging and takes up less space than the equivalent bottle, which means fewer trucks needed to transport it to stores. “TerraCycle is the logical next step for us, because we want to ensure that not only is the product designed for more eco-friendly shipping and usage, but that every element of it is 100 percent recyclable, and recyclable through a very seamless process,” said Procter & Gamble Brand Manager Isaac Hellemn in a statement. Through the Tide Eco-Box Recycling Program, consumers can recycle all of the packaging from the Eco-Box for free. Once finished with the Eco-Box, consumers can separate any plastic waste from the cardboard box and mail it in using a prepaid shipping label. Once collected, the plastic is cleaned and melted into hard plastic that can be remolded to make new recycled products. Additionally, for every pound of waste shipped to TerraCycle, collectors can earn $1 to donate to a nonprofit, school or charitable organization of their choice. “Each year, more than 79 percent of waste that ends up in landfills has the potential to be recycled,” said TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky in a statement. “TerraCycle, in association with companies like Tide, works every day to reduce that number and integrate single-use packaging into new products.” The Tide Eco-Box Recycling Program is open to any interested individual, school, office or community organization.

Jesuit High School in Portland is trying change that for their families. The private, Catholic school has an ambitious plan to become a “zero waste” school. It means everything that would come on campus could either be composted, recycled or repurposed into something else. Recycling is already front and center in their cafeterias. There’s the normal receptacles for paper and cans. But new bins collect odd plastics brought from home by students. Those can’t go to the city curbside. They are destined for a conveyor belt across the country in New Jersey. A revolutionary company called Terra Cycle is teaming up with schools and businesses nationwide to get those drink pouches or markers shipped here. They’re shredded into tiny bits, then pummeled into pellets. Those pellets are bought by other companies to be made into new plastic products: gardening or garbage cans, frisbees, plates, the options are endless. “Ideally we’re going towards becoming a zero waste school, which is a huge undertaking because it means everything we take into the school has an end purpose and an end life,” said Jesuit physics teacher Jennie Kuenz, who’s headed up the recycling program. It’s become a movement that kids are getting behind. A few years ago, the school started an environmental science elective class. Grace Wetzler is a junior and has taken the class. “We made a water filter and studied micro-plastics in the ocean and that kind of inspired me to look at what we throw away and how that pretty much ends up in the ocean,” she said. Alex Guitteiu, a senior, agrees. “Yeah it’s definitely a mindset shift. I think it has to do with your perception of when you throw something away, what happens to that.” “You can see students applying what they have learned and internalizing it and recognizing that their decisions actually matter,” says Kuenz. Becoming zero waste will realistically be a 10-year process, but Jesuit could become the first Oregon school to do it. They’re already switching to refillable dry erase markers, looking at pumps instead of packets for ketchup and mustard, and yes, straws are going bye-bye.