A Cotribá, preocupada com a preservação ambiental e solidária à missão da ONG MiAuJuda que luta pela proteção dos animais, aderiu à campanha #JuntosSomosMais e implantou pontos de coleta de resíduos considerados de difícil reciclabilidade

A iniciativa atua desde junho de 2014 para transformar esponjas de limpeza doméstica usadas em matéria-prima para fabricar novos produtos: pás de lixo, lixeiras, suportes de notebook, entre outros.

Personal care and cosmetics companies are increasingly focusing on recyclable and sustainable packaging, as evidenced by recent moves among major players Unilever, Procter & Gamble and Lush Cosmetics. In January Unilever pledged 100 percent of its plastic packaging will be fully reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025. The same month Procter & Gamble, in partnership with recycling and environmental management companies TerraCycle and Suez, developed the world’s first recyclable shampoo bottle made from up to 25 percent recycled beach plastic. And just this week Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics’ packaging for creams and lotions, the Lush Black Pot, was recognized as the first US Food and Drug Administration rigid packaging application for cosmetics use made from recycled polypropylene (PP), Recycling Today reports

Circular economy and sustainable materials management (SMM) are buzzwords that have gained popularity recently; but, as one speaker at Plastics Recycling 2017 said, both concepts have the same goal: creating a reliable supply chain that incorporates recyclables. Nina Goodrich of GreenBlue and the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC), Charlottesville, Virginia, said SMM and the circular economy, two approaches to using and reusing materials more productively over their lives, had more similarities than differences. She added that both approaches are concerned with creating a “reliable supply chain from waste.” Goodrich and the other speakers during the session stressed that this would need to be a collaborative process if it was going to be successful. Stephen Sikra, who is responsible for the development of people, packages and processes at Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G), Cincinnati, said his company’s goals are to use 20 percent less material in its packaging and to double its use of recycled resin in packaging. “We want your PCR (postconsumer recycled resin),” he told attendees. Sikra added the P&G recognizes that it has a role to play in recycling by designing packaging for recycling, inspiring consumers to recycle, advancing recycling infrastructure and creating demand for PCR. When it comes to investing in recycling infrastructure, the company is working with the Closed Loop Fund and The Recycling Partnership, he said. Other recycling-related collaborations P&G is involved in include the How2Recycle Label, Materials Recovery for the Future and TerraCycle. P&G funds recycling programs managed by TerraCycle for packaging that cannot be recycled via curbside programs, Skira said. “TerraCycle is a bridging program until curbside recycling is available for packages that offer better overall sustainability but may not be recyclable at the curbside.” One of collaborations between P&G and TerraCycle will use plastics collected at beaches to produce the bottles for Head & Shoulders. The bottles will be made from up to 25 percent recycled beach plastic. P&G, in partnership with TerraCycle and Suez Environnement, based in Paris, will begin the recycling program in France by the middle of this year, producing a limited-edition shampoo bottle. The shampoo will be sold through the retailer Carrefour.  

Procter & Gamble (P&G) will Shampoos seiner Marke Head & Shoulders in Flaschen abfüllen, die bis zu 25 Prozent aus recyceltem Kunststoff bestehen, der an Meeresstränden gesammelt wurde. Dies sei eine "Weltneuheit" sagt P&G und kündigte die Markteinführung für diesen Sommer in Frankreich an. Dort soll eine limitierte Auflage der Flasche in der führenden Einzelhandelskette Carrefour erhältlich sein. Dafür sei die weltweit grösste Produktion von Flaschen aus recycelter Strand-Kunststoff nötig. Basis der Zulieferkette für das Ausgangsmaterial sind Freiwillige und Umweltschutzvereine, die den an Stränden angespülten Kunststoff sammeln. P&G arbeitet im Projekt mit dem Recyclingunternehmen TerraCycle und Suez zusammen

Derzeit stehen an der Promenade in Davos grosse Aschenbecher. Wer seinen Stummel nicht einfach wegwerfen will, kann ihn in einen solchen legen. Dann wird er recycelt und beispielsweise zu einer Sitzbank verarbeitet. Davos ist die erste Stadt, die auf das System von TerraCycle setzt. Die Firma recycelt auf der ganzen Welt ganz unterschiedliche Sachen. In Davos derzeit Zigarettenstummeln. Daraus entstehen dann neue Kunststoffsachen. Wie beispielsweise Transportboxen, Aschenbecher oder Sitzgelegenheiten.

Von einer hervorragenden Idee sprach auch Esther Dreisbach, Regionalleiterin der Arbeiterwohlfahrt für die Kindergärten Bad Laasphe/Erndtebrück. Hier hätten sich die Eltern wunderbar engagiert und die Aktion sei ganz im Sinne der AWo, die den schonenden Umgang mit Ressourcen auch in ihren Zielen verankert habe. Genau darum ging es auch bei der Aktion der Drogeriekette dm mit ihren Kooperationspartnern Terra-Cycle sowie Unilever. „Wir wollen den Kindern zeigen, dass aus Müll auch wieder etwas Schönes entstehen kann“, erläuterte dm-Gebietsverantwortlicher Stephan Welinow die Idee hinter der Initiative „R’cycle“, die für einen nachhaltigen Umgang mit Ressourcen wirbt.

This Saturday, the Balboa Village Merchants Association is hosting a neighborhood cleanup along Balboa Street from 32nd through 38th Ave. The event, titled “Balboa Village Cigarette Butt Cleanup“, targets the littering of cigarette butts along the corridor. To participate in Saturday’s Balboa Village Cigarette Butt Cleanup, meet at the Richmond District Neighborhood Center (741 30th Avenue) at 10:30am. All cleanup materials and supplies will be provided. In addition to cleaning up butts, the group is also considering the installation of ashcans along the streets that encourage smokers to dispose of their cigarettes properly. Surfrider, a local environmental group, provides the ashcans as part of their Hold on to Your Butt campaign. The campaign allows businesses and organizations to sponsor ashcans, which are them personalized for the community before they’re installed for use. According to Surfrider, an estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered every year. The filters within the cigarette butt are a nasty lot, and can leach nicotine, arsenic, formaldehyde, and heavy metals like lead and cadmium into water and soil, threatening water quality, marine and terrestrial life, and seafood safety. Surfrider also encourages recycling of the collected butts from ashcans through the TerraCycle program, offering organizations the chance to accrue LEED points and make donations to the charitable foundation of their choice.

Since 2008, the Council for Responsible Sport has certified over 100 sporting events within four levels. Ironman, a Wanda Sports Holding Co., and The Council for Responsible Sport announced today that, in collaboration with Waste Management, Ironman has earned the highest possible level of certification—Evergreen—recognizing the successful implementation of socially and environmentally responsible practices at the 2016 Ironman Boulder triathlon. The event earned credits across all five categories of standards including planning and communications, procurement, resource management, access and equity as well as community legacy. “The Council applauds Ironman on the achievement of Evergreen certification for 2016 Ironman Boulder,” Shelley Villalobos, managing director of the Council for Responsible Sport, said in a statement. “Staging events in many places poses a challenge for genuine local cooperation, but Ironman has shown itself to be a willing partner in working to leave a positive impact on the Boulder community and steward borrowed venues as if they were home.” Since 2008, the Council for Responsible Sport has certified over 100 sporting events within four levels - Certified, Silver, Gold, and Evergreen. Ironman Boulder is amongst only nine events to receive the highest (Evergreen) status, and is also the only triathlon to achieve this level of certification. “Achieving this certification is the result of a strong and strategic partnership with the team at Waste Management,” said Cameron O’Connell, Senior Director of Sales for Ironman. “With their guidance, we have been able to implement sustainable standards across our event series. Our success with Ironman Boulder can now serve as a best-practices example for our company and for race organizers everywhere.” Ironman worked with Waste Management, first, by capturing current environmental initiatives and then by identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation with a focus on Ironman Boulder. This led to green initiatives that have now been rolled out across the North American race series, such as utilizing compostable cups at all aid stations and donating leftover nutrition to local food pantries and shelters. ”Waste Management is proud to support Ironman on a wide variety of sustainable event programs on its journey to achieve the highest level of certification from the Council for Responsible Sport for the Boulder race,” said Lee Spivak, senior associate with Waste Management’s sustainability services group. “We are excited to continue this relationship and help Ironman grow its sustainability initiatives across all five categories of standards. It was also great for our team to utilize our sustainable event management expertise to help another major event achieve council certification.” Some of its environmental accomplishments included:

• Collected bike inner tubes and tires for reuse through TerraCycle.
• Reduced waste generation by reusing fencing, flags, finish line materials, tents, signs, inflatable arches and the Ironman Village truss from previous Ironman events.
• Collected 64 carbon dioxide canisters from event activities to ensure they were reused instead of ending up in the landfill.
• Provided a free shuttle service to and from major venues; Ironman shuttled close to 10,000 people between locations, reducing about 3,000 vehicle trips in each direction.
• Reduced the material sent to landfill by asking all vendors to sign a participation agreement so they only use materials for the event that were locally recyclable, compostable or reusable.

A new playground will soon come to Fourteenth Avenue School in Newark, and it will be made entirely of recycled products, some of which were sourced from the students’ own recycling efforts.   In an announcement event earlier this week, Neil Greenstein, owner and operator of ShopRite of Newark, joined representatives from Colgate and Trenton-based recycling and waste management company Terracycle, Fourteenth Avenue School teachers and the school’s principal, Alyson Barillari, to celebrate both the program and the new playground it will yield.   Neil Greenstein, owner and operator of the ShopRite of Newark, talks about the playground ShopRite and Colgate will donate to the Fourteenth Avenue School in Newark. Image courtesy BML Public Relations Neil Greenstein, owner and operator of the ShopRite of Newark, talks about the playground ShopRite and Colgate will donate to the Fourteenth Avenue School in Newark. Image courtesy BML Public Relations Shoprite and Colgate are joining forces to donate the playground. Via Colgate’s Oral Care Recycling Program, a collaboration between Colgate and Terracycle, students are being encouraged to learn sustainable habits by recycling old toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes and floss containers. The playground, expected to be unveiled in April, will not only be a facilities upgrade for the students to enjoy, but will also demonstrate how recycling can manifest in large-scale products they can actually use. Terracycle, a private company founded in 2001, works with brands to create recycling and education programs and curricula around the country, and has executed the playground program with Colgate for other schools through its Recycled Playground Challenge.