サステナブル・ブランド国際会議2017東京で、テラサイクル創業者のトム・ザッキーCEOが登壇した。テラサイクルはP＆GやJTなど、さまざまな企業と連携してリサイクルを推進している。多くの廃棄物が海に捨てられており、そのうちリサイクル可能なのはわずか数パーセントで、それ以外は焼却している。日本では廃棄物の7割を焼却しているという。ザッキーCEOは、廃棄する以外に何か方法はないかと考えて、テラサイクルを立ち上げた。

私たちは毎日、大量のゴミを捨てています。このような状況の中、「捨てるという概念を捨てよう」というミッションのもと、歯ブラシやタバコの吸い殻など、一見リサイクルができなさそうなものまでリサイクルしてしまう取り組みがあります。今回の「注目の取り組み事例」でご紹介する「テラサイクル」です。

3月8日（水）、ファーストフィナンシャルビル（東京都八重洲）にて開かれた記者発表において、ミス・アース・ジャパンはテラサイクルの「ハブラシ回収プログラム」に参加し、大会を通じてハブラシの回収、リサイクルへの呼びかけを行うことを発表致しました。 それに伴い「2017ミス・アース・ジャパン埼玉大会」を主催する、私たちミス・アース・ジャパン埼玉本部も、早速「ハブラシ回収プログラム」に参加登録致しました！

杉並区役所の本庁舎では、ごみの減量を目的に、庁舎内で出るたばこの吸い殻ごみのリサ イクルを始めることとしました。この取り組みは、テラサイクルジャパン合同会社の行って いる「吸い殻ブリゲード」というプログラムで、年間ではおよそ 1,220kgのごみの減量を 見込んでいます。

Calling all environmentalist...Are you a keen recycler? Do you wonder what to do with those hard-to-recycle materials like yoghurt pouches, coffee capsules and toothpaste tubes? Ahead of Earth Day later this month community members are being sought to sign up as recycling hubs to deal with just those items which would otherwise end up in landfill. TerraCycle, an eco-friendly recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling typically non-recyclable waste, is behind the scheme to grow the public drop-off network. The network comprises all kinds of locations, including schools, sports clubs, community centres, libraries, offices, and individual homes. The waste products are then recycled or upcycled rather than being incinerated or ending up in landfill. Items are shredded and turned into plastic pellets which can be used to make new items including playground equipment, fitness equipment and outdoor furniture. There are 233 active participants in North Canterbury for recycling programmes and about 18 drop-off points, most of which are florists collecting for the Nespresso Coffee Capsules Programme. As well as coffee capsules, other programmes available in New Zealand the Fonterra Pouch Recycling Programme, the GLAD Food Storage Recycling Programme and the Oral Care Recycling programme sponsored by Colgate. The programmes then give back to communities through a points scheme, raising money for a chosen school or not-for-profit organisation. Globally, TerraCycle works with more than 110 or the world's largest consumer goods brands to collect 75 different waste streams, including coffee capsules, toothbrushes, chewing gum and even cigarette waste. It operates in 20 countries and has over 60 million people participating globally in its programmes to collect waste and has diverted almost 5 billion units of waste from landfill and paid more than $15 million to charities and schools worldwide. To learn more about TerraCycle or get involved, visit terracycle.com Northern Outlook_Apr 11

An important part of living more lightly on this earth is to reduce the use of resources and the amount of items going to landfill. Nothing in the natural world is wasted. Instead the output from one system goes on to feed another system. For instance a trees that dies, slowly returns to the earth in a process that feeds numerous micro-organisms and provides nutrients for other plants to grow. Sadly humans have created a production system where commodities are designed to be thrown away when we no longer need them. This has resulted in the creation of large waste sites where festering mounds of discarded materials leach toxic chemicals into the surrounding environment and use valuable land space. To see a landfill site in all its ugly stinking mess provides a striking example of why we need to change our system of production and consumption. The Adelaide Sustainability Centre ran a series of demonstrations at WOMAD this year around this topic. Themed as “Zero Waste Life Hacks” they covered a number of facets of daily life from seed saving and composting, DIY home products, how to darn a sock and how to make bricks from bottles. A number of useful resources and links from these WOMAD workshops can be accessed by clicking here. The Adelaide Sustainability Centre regularly runs a number of workshops that are designed to help us learn skills to live more lightly on this planet. Sign up for the newsletter and keep up to date with the latest workshops .   Further resources:

• Story of Stuff Movie
• Circular Economy Australia
• Cradle to Cradle Manufacturing

Australian Zero-Waste blogs:

• The Rouge Ginger
• Treading my Own Path

The Adelaide Sustainability Centre is a drop off point for:

• Hard to recycle products including Oral Care products, Mailing Satchels and Beauty Products through a partnership with TerraCycle Australia.
• Mobiles and phone accessories through a partnership with Mobile Muster.

Carelessly tossed plastic water bottles eventually go somewhere, and that somewhere might be a hidden cove off Plum Point on the Delaware River, a few miles north of Center City, that snags mighty amounts of trash as it flows downstream. Enter Jay Kelly’s class, determined not only to clean up the mess on the Jersey side of the Delaware, but also to log each and every one of the 7,917 pieces of debris found Saturday morning before the 60-mile bus ride back to Raritan Valley Community College. The students' mission, in collaboration with the nonprofit Clean Ocean Action, was scientific: Where does all the trash come from? What types of debris are most common? The garbage not only is ugly, it also may be swallowed by animals, killing or injuring them. And some chemicals, scientists fear, can end up in the food chain, contaminating other creatures. On Saturday, the class from Somerset County, N.J., found so many plastic water and soda bottles, it was impossible to take a step in a 75-foot length of the cove’s shoreline without the crinkling, crunching sound of collapsing plastic. In all, the students collected nearly 4,000 plastic bottles. But the bottles were just the start. Three dozen car and truck tires were wedged in the muck so densely they looked like headstones poking out of a graveyard. A rubber traffic cone stuck up like a warning. Two giant green plastic barrels, a playground slide, assorted combs, and a child’s tricycle were among trash snarled in nearby brush. Even after 2½ hours of work, the group could only pick up most of the larger items. The plastics were placed in large bags provided by TerraCycle, a Trenton company that specializes in hard-to-recycle items, such as severely degraded plastics. Rudy Sanfilippo, TerraCycle's manager of partnerships, said much of the plastic picked up in Cinnaminson could end up as packaging for new Procter & Gamble products. Items that couldn't be recycled were placed in a dumpster provided by the New Jersey Lands Trust. Left behind were the little bits and pieces that scientists call microplastics, left from decades of decomposing trash and small enough for animals to eat, Henry said. “We see little fish eating plastics and bigger fish eating the little fish,” she said. “So it ends up in the food chain. And the little plastics release toxins.” In just one nine-square-foot area, she said, the group found 152 drinking straws. “A lot of people are not aware of the problem along the river,” said Swarna Muthukrishnan, a scientist with Clean Ocean Action.  “If you got to the ocean beaches, it’s really visible, so people take notice. But lots of these river shorelines don’t get visited.” Kelly doesn’t think people are hurling their unwanted water bottles directly into the river. Rather, he thinks that trash tossed along roadways gets into storm drainage systems that are then overwhelmed during heavy rain, or melt from snowstorms. “It seems to me that most of this trash is coming from upstream during major storm events,” Kelly said. Coves such as Plum Point catch and trap the debris. He believes booms could be set up along the river above covers to funnel the debris into one area where it could be scooped out by heavy machinery. But, for now, he said, that’s just a wish. The more practical solution: Picking up and properly disposing of trash before it becomes a college class project.

Target is looking to make your Spring-cleaning efforts a bit easier this year by offering to take old car seats off your hands. In exchange for the used seats, the company will give you a 20 percent discount on a new seat of your choice. The trade-in program, which will take place in Target stores from April 17 to 30, 2017, is in partnership with TerraCycle — a company that recycles hard-to-recycle waste — which will work to upcycle the old car seats into new products. Through the initiative, Target believes it will "keep more than 700,000 pounds of car seat materials out of landfills." "In honor of Earth Month, we wanted to make it easy for guests to do something positive for the planet and their communities," says Target's chief sustainability officer, Jennifer Silberman. "We love this opportunity to give families an environmentally friendly way to dispose of unwanted car seatsand get the new ones they need just in time for Spring." If you're excited about this program and are planning to take full advantage of the coupon that comes with the trade-in, check out Target's lineup of car seats available to choose from while you wait for April 17 to roll around (your coupon will only be valid until May 31, 2017, so be ready!).

Has your little one outgrown their carseat, or perhaps you want an upgrade. Whatever the case, trade it in by taking it to your local Target starting April 17–30, for a coupon for 20% off any car seat in our stores or online, good through May 31. What happens to all those car seats they collect? Target has teamed up with TerraCycle to make sure they get recycled, or upcycled into new products. Through the partnership, they expect to keep more than 700,000 pounds of car seat materials out of landfills.

Target Stores, including the one in Vallejo — at 904 Admiral Callaghan Lane — has launched a car seat recycling/upgrade program, “just in time for Earth Day,” company officials announced. “It’s spring cleaning time and if an old car seat is on the toss list, Target has you covered,” the announcement says. “Target is teaming up with TerraCycle for a car seat recycling program from April 17-30.” Durign that time, people can drop off an old car seat at their local Target store to be recycled, and then receive a coupon for 20 percent off any car seat purchase in store or at Target.com, good through May 31, officials said. “After receiving positive guest feedback on a test of the program in 90 stores last September, Target is kicking off its first trade-in program available at most stores across the country,” they said. “The program encourages guests to upgrade car seats to the appropriate size for their child to meet car seat safety standards, and Target expects to keep more than 700,000 pounds of car seat materials out of landfills through the partnership.” Bins will be located either in the store’s “baby” section or near the front of the store, and guests can then locate a team member to receive the coupon, they said.