Quase todos os materiais que nossas indústrias produzem são recicláveis. O problema, porém, é que boa parte dos processos é economicamente inviável e, portanto, muito pouco é reciclado. A TerraCycle é uma empresa que ataca este problema. - See more at: http://projetodraft.com/de-um-lado-vende-tecnologia-de-reciclagem-de-outro-mobiliza-gente-para-coleta-esta-e-a-terracycle/#sthash.ozvOkbfZ.dpuf
Gitte Høstgaard har åbnet sit hjem som en lokal indsamlingsplads for kaffe-kapsler og foliepakker, og har indtil nu samlet næsten 6.000 enheder, som alle er blevet genanvendt til nye produkter igennem miljøvirksomheden TerraCycle.
Den store amerikanske miljøorganisation TerraCycle er nu også kommet til Varde, hvor en aftale med Gitte Høstgaard betyder, at kaffekapslerne i Varde og omegn bliver genanvendt til fordel for Dysleksiforeningen Danmark.
Jævnfør kampagnen " Brug Låget Brigade" kunne vi ved at indsamle kapsler fra Arlas produkter - yoghurt, ymer, mælk m. v. indsende disse til Arla og få dem"" ombyttet" til kontanter, til gavn for vores frivillige arbejde i Kildehaven. Personligt gik jeg op i det med liv og sjæl og overtalte alt og alle til at samle kapsler i stedet for at smide dem i skraldespanden.
Contact lenses and blister packaging can now be recycled through a new program from Bausch + Lomb that also donates to blindness-prevention group for each pound recycled. read…Global eye health company Bausch + Lomb has launched a national recycling program to provide Americans with a responsible option for their otherwise non-recyclable contact lenses and blister packs. By partnering with recycling company TerraCycle to create the Bausch + Lomb ONE by ONE recycling program, Bausch + Lomb gives contact lens wearers the ability to recycle used Biotrue ONEday brand contact lenses and blister packs, and lenses and packs from other Bausch + Lomb brands, as well as all other contact lens brands.
Contact lenses and blister packaging can now be recycled through a new program from Bausch + Lomb that also donates to blindness-prevention group for each pound recycled.
Contact lenses and blister packs are considered non-recyclable through municipal facilities mainly because they are too small to be captured by standard sorting machinery. Through the Bausch + Lomb ONE by ONE recycling program, contact lenses and blister packs are now 100% recyclable, providing a nationwide solution to prevent these items from entering the waste stream, at zero cost to the consumer.
Contact lenses and blister packaging can now be recycled through a new program from Bausch + Lomb that also donates to blindness-prevention group for each pound recycled. read…Global eye health company Bausch + Lomb has launched a national recycling program to provide Americans with a responsible option for their otherwise non-recyclable contact lenses and blister packs. By partnering with recycling company TerraCycle to create the Bausch + Lomb ONE by ONE recycling program, Bausch + Lomb gives contact lens wearers the ability to recycle used Biotrue ONEday brand contact lenses and blister packs, and lenses and packs from other Bausch + Lomb brands, as well as all other contact lens brands.
Contact lenses and blister packaging can now be recycled through a new program from Bausch + Lomb that also donates to blindness-prevention group for each pound recycled.
Contact lenses and blister packs are considered non-recyclable through municipal facilities mainly because they are too small to be captured by standard sorting machinery. Through the Bausch + Lomb ONE by ONE recycling program, contact lenses and blister packs are now 100% recyclable, providing a nationwide solution to prevent these items from entering the waste stream, at zero cost to the consumer.
Once collected, contact lenses and blister packs are separated and cleaned. The metal layers of the blister packs are recycled separately, while the contact lenses and plastic blister-pack components are melted into plastic that can be remolded to make recycled products. For every pound of accepted Biotrue ONEday and other Bausch + Lomb brand packaging sent through this program, a $1 donation will be made to Optometry Giving Sight.
Did you know? Normally, used blister packs, top foil and contact lenses are not recyclable locally. Usually they are filtered out and sent to landfills instead.
But if you're a wearer, there's great news: The new Bausch + Lomb #OneByOne recycling program lets you recycle your used lenses, blister packs and top foil, free of charge.
And that's true whether you wear Bausch + Lomb Biotrue Oneday lenses, other Bausch + Lomb brands or any other contact lens brand.
If keeping Mother Earth cleaner isn't enough motivation for you, for all recycled materials received, Bausch + Lomb is donating to the eye care charitable organization Optometry Giving Sight.
The program was developed in partnership with TerraCycle, a company that collects and repurposes hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste.
How does it work? Simply place your used blister packs, top foil and contact lenses into a small cardboard box. When the box is full, print a free One by One shipping label, available at
BauschRecycles.com. Take the box to a UPS location or ship it from your home or office. That's all you have to do!
(Note: Don't include the outer boxes of your contact lens packaging. These can be placed with other cardboard that you normally recycle locally.)
Did you know? Normally, used blister packs, top foil and contact lenses are not recyclable locally. Usually they are filtered out and sent to landfills instead.
But if you're a wearer, there's great news: The new Bausch + Lomb #OneByOne recycling program lets you recycle your used lenses, blister packs and top foil, free of charge.
And that's true whether you wear Bausch + Lomb Biotrue Oneday lenses, other Bausch + Lomb brands or any other contact lens brand.
If keeping Mother Earth cleaner isn't enough motivation for you, for all recycled materials received, Bausch + Lomb is donating to the eye care charitable organization Optometry Giving Sight.
The program was developed in partnership with TerraCycle, a company that collects and repurposes hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste.
How does it work? Simply place your used blister packs, top foil and contact lenses into a small cardboard box. When the box is full, print a free One by One shipping label, available at
BauschRecycles.com. Take the box to a UPS location or ship it from your home or office. That's all you have to do!
(Note: Don't include the outer boxes of your contact lens packaging. These can be placed with other cardboard that you normally recycle locally.)
Every year, more than 10 billion coffee pods wind up in North American landfills — enough, in fact, to circle the globe more than 10 times over.
That’s due, in large part, to the fact that while Keurig, Tassimo and other brands of single-cup coffee are becoming increasingly popular, most municipal and private recycling systems do not yet recycle the pods they come in — it’s simply too expensive a process to separate the compostable coffee grounds from their recyclable plastic containers.
From an environmental perspective that presents two problems, according to Eugene Ace, cofounder of a unique Toronto startup that’s come up with a solution to the coffee pod dilemma.
“Not only do discarded coffee pods see landfills clogged with plastic, but within the landfill, the coffee grounds trapped inside the pods are not exposed to air, so they end up producing methane — a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide,” said Ace, who cofounded GoJava, a GTA coffee delivery company that recycles its clients’ used coffee pods for free, with Evan Birrman in July 2015.
By partnering with TerraCycle Canada, a Fergus, Ont.-based specialty recycling company, Ace and Birrman have so far been able to divert more than 220,000 of the pods — that’s nearly five tons of coffee grounds and plastic — from local landfills in their first 16 months in business.
“We’re just at the very beginning of what we’re trying to do, but we’re really trying to find a mass-market way to collect these used pods and recycle them,” Ace said, noting that company’s current slate of customers includes more than 200 homes and 100 offices in Toronto, Mississauga, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Markham and Thornhill.
How GoJava works is this: customers simply place their coffee order for home or office at GoJava.ca, where Ace said they can find a full range of Keurig and Tassimo brands and ancillary products — often at better prices than the grocery store.
All orders of $40 or more are eligible for free next-day delivery courtesy of GoJava’s carbon-neutral delivery van, he added.
Upon delivery, first-time customers receive a special collection bin for their discarded coffee pods along with their coffee order, while repeat clients have their used pods picked up by GoJava for recycling at the same time their newest order is delivered.
“What we’ve tried to create here is a really simple-to-understand and easy-to-use service,” said Ace, a Davisville area resident. “We provide a good variety of products for a good value — including fast delivery and free recycling.”
Once Ace, Birrman and their two employees have transported their clients’ used coffee cartridges back to GoJava’s Scarborough warehouse, the pods are then sorted and aggregated into pallets and shipped off to Terracycle in Fergus.
There, the coffee grounds separated to be either composted or used as fertilizer, while the coffee pods are ground down and recycled into plastic lumber to be used for such products as flooring or park benches.
Lerners LLP is just one of many downtown Toronto offices that make use of GoJava’s coffee delivery and recycling program. The Adelaide Street law firm boasts more than 150 employees, many of whom make use of the office’s single-cup coffee systems, said Karen Hervias, Lerners’ administrative services co-ordinator.
“We go through quite a bit of coffee in a week,” she said, noting that they solicited GoJava’s services about six months ago as part of the firm’s overall waste diversion initiative.
To those ends, Hervias said Lerner also subscribes to GoJava’s Zero Waste Office program, which, for a fee, allows offices to recycle materials that would otherwise end up in the landfill — hard-to-recycle items such as paper coffee cups, foil packaging, electronics, batteries, ink cartridges and general office supplies.
“For us, it’s everything from staplers and calculators, to old laptops and binders,” said Nicole Sullivan, who helped spearhead Lerners’ zero-waste initiative alongside Hervias.
“One of the big things that drew us to (GoJava) was that we were collecting hundreds and hundreds of old binders ... We didn’t want them to end up in the landfill, but we couldn’t find a place where we could send them, either. Then the guys at GoJava mentioned that they teamed up with TerraCycle to deal with binders, so we got on board.”
Thus far, Sullivan said Lerners’ recycling partnership with GoJava has been a successful one she’d “absolutely” recommend to other offices.
“If we were to think of the legal field as an ocean ecosystem, our litigators and support staff would be the great whites of that ecosystem — they’re ferocious, they’re powerful, they get the job done,” she said.
“But, even they realize that, over time, their success depends on the health of the community, so adopting zero waste was just Lerners doing its part and leading by example.”
