Start small and take one step at a time. Visit us at the Geotourism Center for your free wrapping paper and packaging and check out our great Terracycle station for recycling additional waste!
Sandi Smith, development and marketing coordinator for MCBP, said the organization will work with TerraCycle to recycle the butts. The company provides free shipping and donates a dollar to the Keep America Beautiful Cigarette Litter Prevention Program for every pound of discarded cigarettes that are collected.
Every single toothbrush ever used is still somewhere on our planet. It’s gross and completely avoidable. Replacing your plastic toothbrush with a bamboo, compostable one is an easy step toward making your bathroom a single-use, plastic-free zone, as is replacing any single-use plastic razors with stainless steel alternatives.
Unfortunately, there isn’t much in terms of sustainable packaging for cosmetics, and what’s available is often expensive. That said, try to find out if any of your favorite brands offer a refill program (plenty do, and normally at a discount), or whether they have a recycling service. Garnier, for example, has partnered with TerraCycle and DoSomething.org on their
Rinse, Recycle, Repeat program which aims to keep empty bottles out of landfills.
Hillside Grad School placed second last month in a Save Water Garden promotion courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive, ShopRite, and recycling company TerraCycle.
Hillside Grade School in New Hyde Park won a new garden made from recycled oral care waste through this year's "Save Water Garden" promotion, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive ( "Colgate"), the global oral care leader; ShopRite, which has more than 270 stores in the Northeast; and recycling company TerraCycle.
The cigarette butts will be recycled through TerraCycle, which recycles them into a variety of industrial products, such as park benches. St. Johnsbury and Lyndonville will receive funds from this recycling program to utilize within their own communities.
Hillside Grade School in New Hyde Park won a new garden made from recycled oral care waste through this year's "Save Water Garden" promotion, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive ( "Colgate"), the global oral care leader; ShopRite, which has more than 270 stores in the Northeast; and recycling company TerraCycle.