With the goal of reducing waste, Keep Golden Isles Beautiful’s 2018 School Recycling Challenge did just that. This fall, 11 local schools took part in the challenge to collect non-traditional items for recycling. By collecting items not accepted in local curbside recycling programs, participating schools had an immediate impact on reducing landfill waste. In just two short weeks, students collected more than 155 pounds of oral care products, pens, markers, highlighters and cereal bags — all diverted from the landfill and sent to be recycled at TerraCycle.

Howell and her classmates saved their candy wrappers — eventually amounting to six garbage bags, stuffed full — as part of a recycling campaign organized by CBC stations in Gander, Corner Brook and Happy Valley-Goose Bay for the month following Halloween. Anyone was welcome to drop off snack wrappers at the stations, which after Nov. 30 will be sent to Terracycle, a company repurposing hard-to-recycle plastics.

La LPA de Calais possède un point de collecte pour les dosettes usagées de la marque Tassimo. Recyclées, ces dosettes sont ensuite transformées en dons pour les animaux.

The ever-present red plastic cup, an essential part of Ole Miss tailgating since 1848 – probably; I didn’t Google it – are also recycled through Green Grove by a company called Terracycle. Green Grove recycled 5,668 of them this year.

Terracycle Zero Waste Box. These efficient cardboard boxes are an easy way to live a lower waste lifestyle without too much added effort. You simply toss all those hard to recycle items and let Terracycle do all the work for you. The only catch is that they are a little on the pricey side. But what a better gift to give someone who aspires to do better for the environment but isn’t sure where to start. Use code NOVEMBER20 for a discount through the end of the month (or TGIM if you’re catching this on cyber Monday)!  

The efforts involved collaboration with waste management and repurposing company Terracycle, and the groups’ efforts led to a diversion of approximately 31,000 pounds of product optometry-related waste from oceans, lakes, steams and landfills, according to a Bausch + Lomb release.

Recycle your butts! Although it is not common, there are a few places, like the City of Vancouver, and organizations, like TerraCycle, that will actually recycle your filters for you. Check to see if there are any programs in your area.

    Hocking County has applied for cigarette butt dispensers through the Keep America Beautiful grant. It was noted that 45 dispensers will be placed, after application approval, around Logan, Laurelville and other locations in Hocking County.