Tina e Valdo recepcionam os visitantes do Centro de Computação da Unicamp (CCUEC). Estão sobre o balcão, em frente ao computador da recepção. Os dois pinguins de gesso, batizados “Sustentina” e “Sustenvaldo” são porta-vozes de mensagens em favor do meio-ambiente sustentável. Mascotes de uma campanha que começou na unidade em 2013 e ainda perdura.

New York-based eos Products, known for its lip balms, shave creams and hand and body lotions, has partnered with TerraCycle, Trenton, New Jersey, to recycle the company’s end-of-life packaging into park benches, picnic tables and bike racks.

The ubiquitous coffee capsules and pods that have been “an environmental bogeyman” are unrecyclable curbside due to their size, need to separate the components and organic matter. There is a solution for all brands of hot beverage capsules, including K-cups, pods, discs and their packaging, with a Coffee Capsule Zero Waste Box.

Gary Hensley also shared information on TerraCycle, an interesting program that accepts many items for recycling, including baby pouches, through the mail. After joining, you can print free shipping labels, but the box of recyclables has to weigh five pounds. This may be better suited to groups such as cooperatives, schools, community centers, etc.

Premiums and promotional packaging specialist Supremia has announced that it has hired TerraCycle to collect and repurpose cotton bags that Supremia is no longer using. Previously, Supremia would either burn or send to landfills the bags it was no longer using. The bags were samples that had been produced for trial, but could not be donated because they were branded. TerraCycle collects the bags and combines them with other cotton products to convert them to low-end yarn called “shoddy.” Shoddy is sold in bulk for use in applications such as insulation or padding in products such as furniture or exercise equipment.

TRENTON, N.J. (KYW Newsradio) — Approximately 4.5 million cigarette butts are thrown out each year. But now, one New Jersey company has created a way to recycle them into plastic. TerraCycle has been at the forefront of recycling post-consumer trash for decades. Recently, the Trenton-based firm has been taking cigarette butts and creating a new product.

Boston Terrier Rescue Canada has won a new bench made from recycled plastics through this year's "Recycling Revolution" collection contest, courtesy of Hain Celestial, one of Canada's largest producers of organic and natural food products, and Toronto-based recycling company TerraCycle Canada.  Boston Terrier Rescue Canada collected the most pieces of flexible food packaging waste during the contest period to win the recycled bench, as well as $300 in TerraCycle points that are redeemable for cash payment to their organization.

Anualmente são produzidas milhões de esponjas, que por terem um tempo indeterminado de decomposição, podem causar grande impacto ambiental quando descartadas incorretamente. Pensando nesta questão, a marca Scotch-Brite da 3M se uniu à TerraCycle para criar o Programa Nacional de Reciclagem de Esponjas, voltado à coleta e processamento desse resíduo.

My first real interaction with bugs happened when I met with Chirps chips' CEO Rose Wang at a Sustainable Brands Conference for my job (I work for the recycling company TerraCycle) a few years ago. Her passion really got me interested in the concept, and from there I read the book Edible: An Adventure Into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet and was totally hooked.