Franklin’s newly formed Green Team is hitting the ground running with the help of their PTA. The school has updated its Recycling Rally Program and is teaming up once again with New Jersey-based TerraCycle.
Did you know that you can recycle pens at the University of Ottawa? A few years ago, the Office of Campus Sustainability introduced Pen Recycling on campus as an expansion to the recycling program. There is only one problem... how can you get people to recycle something they don't know that they can recycle?
泰瑞环保，回收不可能
TerraCycle泰瑞环保回收箱，
回收用完的牙膏皮、旧牙刷、漱口水瓶、牙线盒及该产品的包装，
各类洗发护发产品的塑料空瓶（不限品牌），
只要是洗净晾干的都可以送来零废弃小站，
用于再生塑料制造新产品，变身鞋、花盆、课桌椅！
Vancouver-based recycling company TerraCycle has launched a new program aimed at recycling plastic writing utensils that are often simply discarded when they run out of ink.
Hello and welcome back to Talkin' Trash, Waste Dive's look at the stories from the week, big and small. This week was a big one, with an exclusive Wast Dive interview with the CEO of TerraCycle and important news coming out of municipalities.
有一天你正在温暖的热水里沐浴，
你拿起自己最爱的洗发液。
她有着迷人的芳香，
她如天使的臂膀拂过你的发梢，
她如羽毛般轻柔。
你将瓶口朝下，
好像拿捏玫瑰一样轻挤瓶身。
而今天不再一样了，
你仿佛失去了她的呵护，
没能再见最后一面。
当然，
你把他用完啦。
嗯？怎么这么快就用完了？
用完了空瓶怎么办呢？
于是你看了垃圾桶，
好吧，
只能陪你走到这里。
你可爱的天使就像展翅的飞鸟，
走了最后一个完美的抛物线。
你知道吗？
（不知道）
洗发液空瓶在你丢弃以后，
进入了垃圾处理厂，
他们最终的命运就是走向焚烧或者填埋。
塑料的填埋必然导致土壤的污染，
焚烧产生的空气污染想必各位也闻到过。
那为什么不回收呢？
Bingo！
泰瑞环保正在针对洗发液空品进行回收再利用。
加入我们的回收行动，
环保就在举手之间，
打造零废新生活!
还有机会获得淳萃洗发液哦~
A new C-Tran recycling program will prevent thousands of discarded cigarette butts from going into landfills.
According to a news release, C-Tran started gathering all cigarette butts collected at Vine station receptacles in August 2018 and sending them to TerraCycle, a global, New Jersey-based recycling company that specializes in hard-to-recycle waste. Once received, the cigarette butts are separated by composition and melted into hard plastic. That material can then be used to make new recycled industrial products, including plastic pallets, according to TerraCycle. Any remaining tobacco and ash is recycled as compost.
C-Tran states that as many as 1 to 2 pounds of cigarette butts are discarded at Vine stations every week. That’s the equivalent of roughly 2,000 to 4,000 individual butts. By packing them up and shipping them for recycling, it keeps a huge volume of waste from ending up in landfills or causing environmental harm.
According to the release, TerraCycle donates $1 to the Keep America Beautiful Cigarette Litter Prevention Program for every pound of cigarettes collected. C-Tran plans to designate a local charity to receive donations as part of the program.
