每一年，数以亿计的包装废品都会被填埋或焚烧。泰瑞环保努力让这种浪费的、不可持续的行为得到改变。

おはようございます!! 今日は恒例のクリーン活動日です。 とってもイイ天気なので、上着を着なくても平気かな～と思って、外に出たら…寒かった(-_-;) 今日はちょっとゴミが多かったかな。 特に吸い殻が。 最後にゴミをまとめる時に 「ゴミは少ない方がいいけど、少ないとつまらないよね～。」 「拾ったゴミが多いと、おおっっっっ!!って思う!」 「矛盾してるけど…」 とみんなで話してました笑 ホントに矛盾してます～。 ブランシェスでは社内で呼びかけをして、 お家で集めた吸い殻とゴミ拾いで集めた吸殻を合わせて、 リサイクルにまわす【吸殻ブリケード】に参加しています。 何もしなければ、ただのゴミ。 リサイクルすれば資源です。 送料も無料なうえにポイントがもらえて、環境団体に寄付も出来る いい事ずくめの活動です☆ 個人でも、企業でも誰でも気軽に参加できますよ♪

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「了解海洋中的塑膠帶來多大的災害是很重要的，因為塑膠會困住動物或被動物吃下肚，我認為人們不知道這是多大的危機。」與P&G合作製造洗髮精瓶的回收公司TerraCycle，其創辦人Tom Szaky如此告訴赫芬頓郵報。

Today I sent out email to a few schools (Bullcreek PS, Oberthur PS, Bateman PS, Caralee CS, FLDC, Melville PS, Bicton PS, Attadale PS, Ardross PS, Applecross SHS, Mount Pleasant PS, Brentwood PS, Leeming SHS, West Leeming PS, Leeming PS, Banksia Park PS, Kardinya PS, Palmyra PS, Booragoon PS, Melville SHS, Winthrop PS, Yidarra CPS, Kennedy BC, All Saints C, Corpus Christi C, Mel Maria CPS, Our Lady of Fatima, Santa Maria, St Benedicts and St Georges Anglican Grammar!) Basically, I think schools are a great place to start when it comes to reaching a group of people and … educating them. The gist of the email is as follows… I am challenging the schools of the City of Melville to participate in a free program to promote recycling waste streams that would normally end up in landfill. The City of Melville has an A-Z list of items http://recycleright.wa.gov.au/your-a-z-of-recycling/ that go in their ‘Green top bins’ (aka Organic Compost and Landfill) and ‘yellow top bins’ recycling. RecycleRight have a free app for smartphones http://recycleright.wa.gov.au/download-our-app/ Some of the items that are not recycled through City of Melville is the humble toothbrush and tube of Toothpaste. TerraCycle take on the waste streams that our curb side collectors can’t. They will even pay postage and give you points for each piece over 1kg (up to 22kg/package). All you have to do is bring in your brush (and other dental hygiene products.) Run it through the Student Council, giving the student body ownership and an ingrained school ethic to care for the environment! Advertise it on your school website, in class rooms and the school newsletter. Or perhaps via the P&C/P&F. Put your school and Melville area on the Map for public drop locations. I believe there are 30 odd schools in the City of Melville, which one will be the best at recycling an everyday product that everyone uses? Not only will you be helping keeping toothbrushes out of landfill, you will be stopping them from contaminating glass in the City of Melville yellow bins (yep, glass.) Please read the TerraCycle link and challenge your students to be part of keeping plastic out of landfill. Postage is pre-paid by TerraCycle, the program is free and you get points that make prizes for your school. Other business Oral Care Brigade: http://www.terracycle.com.au/en-AU/brigades/oral-care-brigade Oral Care Recycling Program · TerraCycle http://www.terracycle.com.au TerraCycle and Colgate® have partnered to create a free recycling program for oral care product packaging as well as a fundraising opportunity for participants. Oral Care Brigade specially for schools: http://www.terracycle.com.au/en-AU/brigades/bsbf-schools Bright Smiles, Bright Futures™ Oral Care Recycling Program http://www.terracycle.com.au Welcome to all primary schools receiving Colgate® Bright Smiles, Bright Futures™ oral health education kits. Join this recycling program for free and help divert … RecycleRight do have tours if your school was interested in investigating the impact of of recycling and rubbish and how our systems work in the Melville Shire. http://recycleright.wa.gov.au/contact/take-a-tour/ Recycle Right – Take a Free Tour of the RRRC Recycling … recycleright.wa.gov.au Take a free tour – RecycleRight, designed to educate visitors about the recycling process. Visit m.recycleright.wa.gov.au for ideas on living more sustainably. Take it a step further and do the beauty packaging http://www.terracycle.com.au/en-AU/brigades/beauty-products-recycling-program. They have several different waste streams and quite a few are free! http://www.terracycle.com.au/en-AU/collection-programs Some of their programs do involve a cost, I’d be thrilled if you took them up but I’d be happy with just getting toothbrushes out of landfill. Should your school wish to purchase some of the TerraCycle bins that are not on their free list, fundraise with a mufti-day for a gold coin donation. Have the students and teachers wear all natural fibres (or TRY to.) Natural fibres include cotton, wool, silk & hemp. Beauty Products Recycling Program http://www.terracycle.com.au L’Oréal Australia® and its brand Garnier® have teamed up with TerraCycle® to provide a second life for used personal care and beauty packaging through the free … I am a resident in the City of Melville, I have no affiliation with the companies mentioned. I’m just a mum, with young children in a local school who wants to make a difference in more then just my catchment area. My personal motivation is to have less waste, my inspiration has come from reading about Australian, Erin Rhoads www.therogueginger.com and Beth Terry https://myplasticfreelife.com. Beth Terry has a great book called Plastic Free, which would be an amazing addition to your school library. Although it has an American focus, it is a very good starting point for anyone wishing to minimise their plastic footprint. She also refers to many Australian programs. Other books for your school may be Joel Harper, All the way to the Ocean and Patricia Newma’s, Plastic Ahoy! Please inspire change and awareness, thank you for reading. Please note this program isn’t to undermine the work that the City of Melville & RecycleRight do, it is intended to complement it. Please download their app and/or take their free tour! Electric toothbrushes, electric toothbrush replacement heads & floss string are landfill. Bamboo toothbrushes are to go into home compost. Who knows, maybe they will take up the challenge. I hope so!

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PUR Water Filter Systems, from Helen of Troy Health and Home, officially launches in Canada today at an event featuring Dr. David Suzuki discussing the individual responsibility each Canadian has to the environment, and more specifically, water quality. PUR also launches its environmental stewardship and recycling program in conjunction with TerraCycle.   The next generation of PUR water filtration systems are certified to remove 99% of lead from drinking water. PUR launches two categories today as follows:   PUR Ultimate Pitcher Filtration System with Lead Reduction in 7-cup and 11-cup formats, plus respective filters. PUR pitchers are certified by WQA (Water Quality Association) to remove 14 contaminants including 99% of lead, 96% of mercury and 92% of certain pesticides, more than any other brand. 1 PUR Advanced Faucet Filtration System, plus respective filter. PUR faucet filters are certified to remove over 70 contaminants including 99% of lead, 96% of mercury and 92% of certain pesticides, more than any other brand. 1 PUR pitcher and faucet water filtration systems feature MAXION® Filter Technology; PUR's unique formulation approach for blending carbon and ion exchange materials for maximum contaminant reduction. PUR's water filtration systems are certified by both the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) and WQA to remove 99% of lead in drinking water.   "Drinking water takes a long journey when it leaves local treatment facilities and it's often not as clean once it gets to home faucets," advises Mr. Michael Mitchell, Director of Advanced Technologies for Helen of Troy Health and Home. According to Health Canada, Canadian Water Network and Canadian Water Quality Association, a majority of water infrastructures are aging and that increases the risk for contaminants such as lead, mercury, chlorine, pollutants, pesticides, and microbial cysts. 2,3,4   Kevin Wong, Executive Director of Canadian Water Quality Association confirms traces of these contaminants are found in regular municipal drinking water. "CWQA has been championing testing and establishing guidelines for safe drinking water with all levels of government for many years," said Mr. Wong.   MAXION® Filter Technology, empowers consumers to care for their water with an affordable solution (pitchers and faucet filtration systems) to provide healthier, great-tasting water and peace of mind. However, when it comes to the PUR Advanced Faucet Filtration system, it features PUR MineralClear®, which filters water over natural minerals for a crisp, refreshing taste, plus it removes 10x more contaminants than the leading brand water pitcher. 5   Mr. Mitchell concludes, "The MAXION filtration system is an industry leading technology that reduces contaminants that may be found in drinking water. For example, PUR's pitchers reduce 14 contaminants, and the faucet filtration systems reduce over 70 contaminants. Both the pitcher and faucet filter systems are certified to remove 99% of lead, plus the taste and odour of chlorine".   According to Dr. David Suzuki, it's becoming more important for the individual to care not only for the environment, but to take action on a personal level. Dr. Suzuki's latest research and work dedicated to the challenge of the 21st century and setting the bottom-line in the anthropocene, reveals that humans have a dependence on clean air and water, and that the web of all of life on earth is responsible for cleansing, replenishing and creating air and water amongst other factors.   PUR takes environmental stewardship very seriously, and in addition to creating an industry leading water filtration system, has gone one step further by partnering with TerraCylce, with a national recycling program, to help consumers reduce the impact of the water filtration system and product packaging on the environment. The PUR Recycling Program is open to any interested individual, school, office, or community organization. Participation is as easy as signing up on the TerraCylce website (www.terracycle.ca). Upon registering, TerraCycle then sends pre-paid shipping labels to the end user to send back waste, and uses it to up-cycle, recycle, and even creates art with it!

Careless smokers are covering the West Coast’s serene landscape with cigarette butts and local ocean lovers have launched a campaign to convince them to cut it out. Surfrider Pacific Rim is installing canisters throughout Tofino and Ucluelet as part of a ‘Hold onto Your Butts’ campaign designed to keep beaches and streets clean while raising awareness of cigarette pollution. “The Hold onto Your Butt campaign is a fun and proactive approach to stopping the flow of cigarette litter from sidewalks to storm drains and eventually out to the ocean,” Surfrider Pacific Rim chair Michelle Hall told the Westerly News. “The campaign aims to raise awareness about the environmental impact of cigarette butt litter on our oceans, waves and beaches...We are asking you to hold onto your butt until you see a canister to put it in; it’s easy.” Roughly 12 canisters have been installed so far on district-owned land in Tofino and Ucluelet as well as outside participating businesses like Wolf in the Fog, Wickaninnish Inn and Howlers Restaurant. “We will be working very closely with public works and businesses to monitor the cigarettes collected in the canisters, and celebrate together the prevention of butts from reaching the ocean, and instead being recycled,” Hall said. “Surfrider Pacific Rim will champion the use of these canisters and launch the HOTYB campaign to ensure that the community gets involved, and becomes part of the solution not the pollution. Continuing our work in the schools, to provide education to our youth is vital.” She explained canisters are emptied regularly and the butts shipped to the mainland to be recycled. “With the help of volunteers, public works and this amazing community of people, we will collect those butts, and get them recycled into other plastic products through a company called TerraCycle,” she said. “TerraCycle have formed an amazing relationship with the Surfrider Foundation in the US, and so we reached out to their Canadian branch and they were stoked to start working with us too. They also offer recycle services for items that may be hard to recycle here on the Pacific Rim, and that’s something we will be looking at for the future too.” Local Surfrider volunteers have picked roughly 3,073 cigarette butts off local beaches in the past year, according to the foundation’s cleanup records, making butts the third most frequently found debris behind plastics and styrofoam. “This problem isn’t exclusive to the Pacific Rim here on the West Coast,” Hall said. “The California Coastal Commission reports that 36% of debris removed as part of its annual California Coastal Cleanup Day are cigarette butts and other smoking related items.” She said roughly 4.95 trillion cigarette butts are tossed into the environment each year and these butts can take up to 25 years to decompose and leach toxins that threaten marine life. “We would like to make the general public more aware of their actions when it comes to throwing butts out the window of a car or on a beach, but also provide the solutions to enable people to dispose of butts in the canisters,” she said. Hall has been thrilled so see local excitement surround the young campaign. “Locals are already excited for this initiative, not just because this means cleaner streets, but locals are now able to take part in the solution to end butt pollution,” she said. “Having the canisters and the education, means that we can help others dispose of their butts properly, and let them know that they are awesome because their butts get recycled into other products. Thats a win-win.” Anyone interested in installing a canister at their business is encouraged to contact Surfrider at chair@pacificrim.surfrider.org and anyone interested in volunteering for the campaign can reach out to volunteercoordinator@pacificrim.surfrider.org. “Surfrider is looking for volunteers to help champion this campaign, whether that’s becoming a volunteer for the HOTYB team, helping to collect butts, or being part of informing the community to dispose of butts in the canisters,” Hall said. “Got some fun slogans about holding onto your butt? Have a fun idea for a spoof campaign video on keeping butts of the street? Let us know.”

Personal care product company Garnier is working with TerraCycle and a nonprofit group to help consumers keep plastic out of the trash stream. The company also noted that it boosted the amount of recycled content in its packaging starting this year. Garnier, a hair and skin care products brand owned by L’Oreal, teamed up with nonprofit organization DoSomething.org for a campaign called “Rinse, Recycle, Repeat,” according to a press release. After registering online, participants accumulate 10 pounds of empty containers, at which point they can print out a label for free shipping to New Jersey-based TerraCycle, which recycles the materials. The effort also includes a competition, which kicks off April 1 (no joke), in which dozens of college campuses will compete to collect the most empty containers. The winner will receive items for a garden from Garnier and TerraCycle. The campaign is part of the large Garnier Beauty Recycling Program, which, since its 2011 inception, has diverted more than 8 million containers from landfill. Garnier also noted that it boosted the post-consumer recycled plastic content in its Garnier Fructis products from 30 percent to 50 percent as of January 2017.

New Orleans — Organizers of a beach plastics recovery campaign expect to greatly expand collection efforts in the coming months to locations around the world. Recycling company TerraCycle Inc. and Procter & Gamble Co. grabbed headlines earlier this year with a program that captured ocean-destined plastic for use in shampoo bottles being sold in France this year. Now comes word from TerraCycle that this is only the beginning. "This has become a long-term plan for TerraCycle and our partners, even though it's relatively new," said Brett Stevens, vice president of material sales and procurement at the recycling company. The initial project collected about 15 tons of material in Europe, and Stevens said plans are to expand collection efforts to locations such as North America and Asia and significantly increase the amount of plastics captured from the environment. "The collection goals we've set forth in total approach I would say probably 500 to 1,000 tons coming off beaches over the next 12 months. It is very much not a fad. I think that we're investing the staff and resources and building our programs with our partners, making this a long-lasting impact," he said. TerraCycle will work with existing beach cleanup programs to divert collected plastics away from landfill disposal, Stevens said during the Plastics Recycling 2017 conference in New Orleans. "What we have to do is layer our collection efforts today on top of everyone who is already doing beach cleanups. If you are any organization of any size that's doing beach cleanup, we want the plastic from your beach cleanup. We're already engaging them. We have a team that's reaching out in every market," Stevens said. Ted Siegler, a partner with DSM Environmental Services Inc., looks at the ocean plastics issue from an economics perspective. He said current estimates indicated that some 8 million tons of plastics enter the world's oceans every year. That's the equivalent of a garbage truck full of plastic dumping its load into the ocean every minute of every day throughout the year. Siegler indicated that there's basically not enough money available in developing countries to deal with the waste management issues that lead to litter that ultimately ends up in the oceans. So he's calling for the plastics industry to develop a funding mechanism on its own to help pay for proper management of the material. "The problem is the collection infrastructure simply doesn't exist in most of those developing countries. And that's a real problem. Because if the collection infrastructure doesn't exist for solid waste, then we're not going to be able to solve the problem," he said. He suggests a fee of 1 cent per pound of resin produced to help fund management of the issue. "You would begin to stem the discharge of plastic to the environment," he said. "I think it's a lot less costly to do that than to assume someone else is going to solve the problem." Siegler pointed to a program developed by the Ag Container Recycling Council to voluntarily fund recycling of crop protection, animal health and pest control product containers as an example of how a larger ocean plastics initiative could work. "I'm suggesting that it's something we ought to be looking at on a broader scale to solve this problem," he said. Stevens said there is no shortage of consumer packaged goods companies looking to use beach plastics. "I don't see any issue at all on the demand side. We've gotten a lot of inquiries. Not just from CPG companies, but also from packaging companies for those CPG companies," he said. "Everybody loves the story. They'd love to be able to help and use this material in their finished products." Make no mistake, however, that using beach plastics is much more expensive than virgin resin or even traditional recycled resin. That's why a company has to leverage the story behind use of beach plastics to gain interest to help drive sales. "In order for it to make sense economically, you as a brand need to be able to cover that expenditure somewhere else. So if you are getting incremental shelf space, it makes it easier to cover that. If you are just some generic company that's not going to leverage that it's beach plastic, it makes it hard to swallow when it's more expensive than virgin plastic," Stevens said. TerraCycle, he said, is working to expand the program as quickly as possible. "Our goal is to try to get this to critical mass as soon as we can and then keep it there. Some people will say there's only so much plastic out there. I say there's too much plastic out there," Stevens said. "We will find those hotspots around the globe aside from developed areas like the U.S. and Western Europe. There will be areas that are collecting a hundred or two hundred or five hundred times as much plastic as we're seeing in developed markets. And it's just a matter of putting our finger on it and drawing that volume into our possession," he said. The American Chemistry Council has been involved in a variety of efforts to bring attention to the issue over time, said Stewart Harris, director of marine and environmental stewardship at the trade group. "In our view, plastics and other litter in the environment is unacceptable," he said. While the use of plastics creates "significant benefits to society," he said, "the benefits are lost if the plastics end up in our natural environment. "Waste management," Harris said, "is the key to preventing marine debris."