Birdsong Brewing’s love of sustainable practices is no secret. The brewery installed solar panels on the roof earlier this year, and their longtime environmental stewardship also takes the form of cleaning up creeks and working with local farmers.
In a statement on April 10, company representatives said in the past 15 months the company was qualified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue shares in its $25 million Regulation A offering, allowing any category of investor to invest in TerraCycle’s U.S. operating company. It had also hired 70 new employees and acquired Air Cycle, a universal waste company based in Chicago.
Para deixar o planeta ainda mais limpo, nosso colégio juntou-se à TerraCycle para participarmos de um programa de reciclagem de esponjas de limpeza de uso doméstico. O programa irá proporcionar um destino mais nobre para as esponjas descartadas e a oportunidade de contribuirmos com o futuro do planeta.
Lauren Singer is an advocate for the zero-waste movement who leads by example—and by very engaging videos (“DIY deodorant,” “What do you do about toilet paper?”). She herself has only generated a single Mason jar of garbage in the past five years. She also manages to waste very little time: At only 26, the New York University grad (environmental studies) is the founder/owner of Brooklyn’s
Package Free Shop, purveyors of plastic-free living essentials;
The Simply Co., chemical-free bulk laundry soap sold in refillable glass containers; and the blog/YouTube channel
Trash Is for Tossers.
Size up the contents of your garbage bags and consider ways to cut down. For instance, is your recycling bin brimming with plastic takeout food cartons? If that’s the case, come up with an alternative: start bringing your own reusable containers to your to-go source; better yet, vow to cook big batches of food on Sunday that can take you through the week. Singer, of course, advocates for recycling but doing it conscientiously—”it still uses tremendous amounts of energy.”
Anything that’s still should be donated rather than tossed. As for wasteful but unavoidable items, such as contact lens solution plastic bottles, Singer notes that
TerraCycle of NJ “will recycle anything—even diapers and cigarettes”—and the company’s many free programs help make this viable for individuals and communities.
Charlotte, North Carolina's
Birdsong Brewing Co. has announced the release of a new Gose beer called Sunshine Gose, which will release at an Earth Day party at the brewery on April 21.
The seasonal release comes just in time for spring, and according to a release from Birdsong "the beer is crisp, clean and tart and reminiscent of a healthy dose of sunshine. Made with local lemon oil, Sunshine Gose is bright and refreshing with a note of salinity, lemon zest and a very sessionable 4.7% ABV and 20 IBUs."
The beer will be available through June 16 in 4-packs of 16-ounce cans wherever Birdsong's beers are available. The full release from the brewery is below.
For over thirty years, Burt’s Bees has been committed to protecting the beauty, wisdom and power of nature—and now, through the Burt’s Bees Recycle On Us program, their consumers can recycle any and all Burt’s Bees packaging, nationwide. In partnership with TerraCycle®, the world’s leader in the collection and repurposing of complex waste streams, the program allows anyone to recycle their product packaging through a free mail-in program, regardless of any regional recycling limitations.
