Du kan omsætte skrald til penge og støtte Plans skoleprojekt i det østlige Zambia, hvor børnene og deres forældre mangler byggematerialer til at reparere skolepulte og bygge nye klasseværelser.

Um case inédito, com ações bem consolidadas, é o Programa de Reciclagem das esponjas Scotch Brite da 3M, em parceria com a Terra Cycle. Em uma única frente, o programa atua em dois aspectos: reciclagem das esponjas usadas e ação social.

Cleaning garbage off the streets of downtown Victoria can be a tedious, never-ending task, but a local group is always up to the challenge.   On weekdays, the Downtown Victoria Business Association's Clean Team, armed with green jackets and cleaning tools such as brooms, garbage cans, kitty litter and cleaner, comb downtown Victoria streets searching for garbage, such as cigarette butts, to pick up.   Over the past three years, they've collected thousands of cigarette butts. Now, the Clean Team, along with similar organizations around the country, have reached a new milestone — they have helped collect 73 million cigarette butts nationwide diverting them from the waste stream.   “It's an enormous number,” said Rob Caunter, manager of the Clean Team. “Not only does it improve the aesthetics of downtown, but it keeps cigarette butts out of storm drains, out of our oceans where fish could eat them, and ultimately out of our food sources.”   The Clean Team's cigarette butt recycling project is a partnership between the Surfrider Foundation and the City of Victoria, which began in 2014.   As part of the pilot project, cigarette butt canisters have been installed around the city, encouraging smokers to discard their butts in the canisters, rather than throwing them onto the street, where they often end up in storm drains and eventually the ocean.   “They're not biodegradable and they are jammed full of toxins that filter out of these cigarettes,” said Caunter, adding the canisters have been helpful in reducing the number of butts on the street, but more canisters are needed.   “It's like putting a million poisonous things in the ocean on an on-going basis.”   Every week, Clean Team members are tasked with emptying the canisters and picking up additional butts, which are then packaged and shipped off to TerraCycle Canada, a company that takes difficult-to-recycle packaging and turns it into affordable and innovative products, such as industrial plastics for palettes and garden benches.   The Clean Team is responsible for more than just picking up cigarette butts around town. Members also wash windows, doorways, and recesses of buildings, clean up graffiti and remove drug paraphernalia year-round.

Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, through TerraCycle’s free, national Cigarette Waste Recycling Program, has helped the nationwide collection reach a milestone of 73 million cigarette butts diverted from the waste stream, it was announced March 2. Along with keeping butts out of landfills, collectors earn points that can be redeemed for cash donations to the non-profit of the collector’s choice. Through the efforts of collectors like Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, nationwide donations have just passed $53,500. “Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise has an extensive recycling program,” said Mortimer Capriles, environmental systems manager, Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, in a release. “As part of our ongoing efforts to improve our environmental performance, the sustainability committee and the grounds team decided to start a cigarette waste recycling program in 2015, with the support of TerraCycle.” TerraCycle is an international recycling company that finds innovative solutions for materials not typically accepted at municipal recycling facilities. The waste collected through the Cigarette Waste Recycling Program is recycled into a variety of industrial products, such as plastic pallets, and any remaining tobacco and paper is recycled as compost. Founded in 2001, TerraCycle is a leader in the collection and reuse of non-recyclable postconsumer waste. It repurposes the waste into sustainable, affordable materials and consumer products. In 21 countries, the waste is collected through programs that donate money to schools and charities.

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..

Students at UC Blue Ash are collecting used dental hygiene materials to help patients who can't afford dental work Students in Blue Ash want your old toothbrush. Yes, you read that right. UC Blue Ash College’s dental hygiene program is asking for used toothbrushes, empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers that are on the brink of being tossed. The class wants to submit them for recycling. They say the goal is to use the proceeds to help patients in the Dental Hygiene Clinic pay for services they can’t afford. "Our cost is already low in our clinic, but some of our patients can't afford the $10 for an X-ray. That's a concern since we have learned in class how important these can be in diagnosing hidden issues beneath the gumlines, as well as cavities between teeth,” Suzanne Yorke, dental hygiene student and project organizer, said in a release. Organizers said the students submit the old dental supplies to TerraCycle, an organization that reuses items that are hard to recycle to make playground equipment. And there is an environmental benefit too. So far the students said they have diverted over 30 pounds of dental waste from landfills. The goal is to raise $100, which would cover the cost of X-rays for 10 clinic patients. Anyone interested in donating can place items in the collection bin outside the Dental Hygiene Clinic at UC Blue Ash College in Walters Hall on the first floor.

Dyna-Mig is doing its part to keep cigarette butts from ending up in landfills or the streets.   It’s joined a national recycling program. The program, which has been put together by TerraCycle, is aimed at doing something with 73 million butts, other than throwing them away.   The company turns them into various industrial products and compost.   On top of that participants earn points that can be redeemed for cash donations to non-profits which so far have just passed $53,500 nationwide. Dyna-Mig’s points were used to buy 92 bee homes.