Last year, my daughter and I participated in a river cleanup with her Girl Scout troop.  It was a disturbingly eye opening afternoon that left me seriously concerned with the health of our waterways.  Without clean water, humans, plants, and animals will not survive.  There is no way around it.  We all need water to live a healthy life and without CLEAN water, we are seriously doomed.  Today, I am sharing a few ways to protect our water supply that YOU can do right at home.  I am also including information about the Tom’s of Maine, Let’s Turn the Tide™ campaign to help clean up some of our most important waterways. My husband and I just got back from a trip to Asheville, NC and the rivers up there are amazing!  We made sure we packed out everything we carried in to help keep them that way!

Hasbro is launching a new toy and game recycling pilot program with TerraCycle, a global leader in product recycling, in the contiguous U.S. During the pilot program, consumers can collect and send their Hasbro toys and games to TerraCycle, which will recycle them into materials that can be used in the construction of play spaces, flower pots, park benches and other innovative uses.

Tom’s of Maine also believes that water is important. Whether it is conserving it in your home or cleaning it up locally. They have partnered with The Nature Conservancy, the leading conservation organization, and are donating $1,000,000 to help fund projects that restore waterways across the US!* The Let’s Turn the Tide campaign allows everyone to vote for their favorite body of water.

Over the years I have been trying to find high-quality natural personal care products for my family. I want to reduce the number of chemicals that we put on our skin, hair, and teeth. My kids and I have very sensitive skin and reducing irritants such as fragrances and artificial dyes have improved our complexions. I am trying out new products all the time and trying to find the best ones that work for my family and Tom’s of Maine products are at the top of the list!

During the pilot programme, consumers can collect and send their Hasbro toys and games to TerraCycle, who will recycle them into materials that can be used in the construction of play spaces, flower pots, park benches, and other innovative uses. In 2018, Hasbro is piloting the programme in the contiguous US.

All-natural Clorox beauty brand Burt’s Bees has teamed up with recycling specialist TerraCycleto launch "Recycle On Us," an initiative that lets consumers recycle product packaging for free by mail  — including packaging with materials not accepted by local municipal programs.

Sabe aquele lápis quebrado ou caneta sem tinta que já não pode mais ser utilizada e que você jogaria no lixo? A boa notícia é que esse material pode ser reciclado, transformado em novos produtos e ainda beneficiar escolas de todo o Brasil.

A instituição de ensino pública que mais arrecadar instrumentos de escrita para a reciclagem será premiada com kits de material escolar durante um ano. A participação é totalmente gratuita.

Small businesses are the foundation for a national economy. They are the backbone of communities, providing jobs, generating revenue and comprising a significant part of the state and local culture. Agile and positioned for innovation due to their size and flexibility, small business is a powerful symbol for modern capitalism, as even the world’s largest corporations today once started out as companies working to provide for the needs of everyday people.

How much can we bench press? About 850+ if we’re talking about how many upcycled park benches Johnson & Johnson has helped to create since 2012. The benches are made from plastic boxes that house pipette tips, which are syringe-like tools used to draw and dispense fluids in laboratory testing. These boxes (shown above) are usually considered biopharma waste because they’re constructed from tough number 5 plastic, which isn’t accepted at most recycling facilities. But through its partnership with lab material supplier VWR and TerraCycle, which upcycles the used containers, over 164,000 boxes from participating Johnson & Johnson labs across the U.S. were recycled into more than 200 park benches in 2017 alone that were then distributed to underserved communities and schools.