Recycling used satchels

Did you know that not all councils allow soft plastics to be recycled? That includes the plastic satchels you often receive your online shopping in. To combat this, we’ve teamed up with TerraCycle so that our customers are always able to recycle our products. We’re also working alongside TerraCycle to help other big brands such as Colgate, Garnier, Maybelline, L’Oreal and Natures Own, recycle their products through our network. Toothbrushes, coffee capsules, cosmetic items and more move through Australia Post to be repurposed and recycled.

TerraCycle Zero Waste Box

Have you got heaps of old stuff to get rid of, but don’t know the best way to make sure it doesn’t end up in landfill? Enter, the TerraCycle Zero Waste Box. Everything you send in to TerraCycle using their Zero Waste Box will be recycled or re-purposed. =

That message is reinforced by the Australian wing of US eco business TerraCycle, which partners with the likes of Nespresso, Colgate, Australia Post and L'Oreal to recycle its waste. Like Green Thread, TerraCycle acknowledges consumers are more likely to make the right choice when the solution is spoon fed to them. For example, Nespresso sponsoring the recycling of its notoriously wasteful pods. "There is no doubt a growing concern for the world around us, and recycling is an integral part of minimising our impact on the environment. We see recycling as apolitical, in that we can all agree it's a good idea. Eventually, we realised that businesses, government and individuals may also be willing to pay to divert these products from landfill, and that we could provide the recycling solutions they were looking for," Gemma Kaczerepa, from TerraCycle Australia, said. Its new product, Zero Waste Box is a self-assembled box that can collect different waste items such as hair nets or binders, pens, pencils or markers.

That message is reinforced by the Australian wing of US eco business TerraCycle, which partners with the likes of Nespresso, Colgate, Australia Post and L'Oreal to recycle its waste. Like Green Thread, TerraCycle acknowledges consumers are more likely to make the right choice when the solution is spoon fed to them. For example, Nespresso sponsoring the recycling of its notoriously wasteful pods. "There is no doubt a growing concern for the world around us, and recycling is an integral part of minimising our impact on the environment. We see recycling as apolitical, in that we can all agree it's a good idea. Eventually, we realised that businesses, government and individuals may also be willing to pay to divert these products from landfill, and that we could provide the recycling solutions they were looking for," Gemma Kaczerepa, from TerraCycle Australia, said. Its new product, Zero Waste Box is a self-assembled box that can collect different waste items such as hair nets or binders, pens, pencils or markers.

That message is reinforced by the Australian wing of US eco business TerraCycle, which partners with the likes of Nespresso, Colgate, Australia Post and L'Oreal to recycle its waste. Like Green Thread, TerraCycle acknowledges consumers are more likely to make the right choice when the solution is spoon fed to them. For example, Nespresso sponsoring the recycling of its notoriously wasteful pods. "There is no doubt a growing concern for the world around us, and recycling is an integral part of minimising our impact on the environment. We see recycling as apolitical, in that we can all agree it's a good idea. Eventually, we realised that businesses, government and individuals may also be willing to pay to divert these products from landfill, and that we could provide the recycling solutions they were looking for," Gemma Kaczerepa, from TerraCycle Australia, said. Its new product, Zero Waste Box is a self-assembled box that can collect different waste items such as hair nets or binders, pens, pencils or markers.

That message is reinforced by the Australian wing of US eco business TerraCycle, which partners with the likes of Nespresso, Colgate, Australia Post and L'Oreal to recycle its waste. Like Green Thread, TerraCycle acknowledges consumers are more likely to make the right choice when the solution is spoon fed to them. For example, Nespresso sponsoring the recycling of its notoriously wasteful pods. "There is no doubt a growing concern for the world around us, and recycling is an integral part of minimising our impact on the environment. We see recycling as apolitical, in that we can all agree it's a good idea. Eventually, we realised that businesses, government and individuals may also be willing to pay to divert these products from landfill, and that we could provide the recycling solutions they were looking for," Gemma Kaczerepa, from TerraCycle Australia, said. Its new product, Zero Waste Box is a self-assembled box that can collect different waste items such as hair nets or binders, pens, pencils or markers.

Environmental educator Leah King-Badyna has a bonus question for students at the College of Coastal Georgia. When your writing pen runs out of ink, you: a.) Toss it in the trash can. b.) Drop in on the ground. c.) Stuff it in bottom of your backpack with all the other out-of-ink pens in there. d.) Drop it off at one of the six recycling containers set up across campus specifically for pens, markers and highlighters. The really cool students know that the correct answer is D. Just ask junior marketing major Eric Seals. The young man from Brunswick knows that CCGA’s 3,400 students go through a lot of pens, markers and highlighters. Without this recycling program by Keep Golden Isles Beautiful, that many small, plastic writing tools could eventually add up to a significant problem in a landfill. “I think it’s really interesting because a lot of this stuff gets thrown in the trash,” Seals said Thursday in the student center. “Especially with pens and stuff because they’re running out of ink all the time. I’ll put all my used pens in those containers.” Seals earned high marks from King-Badyna, whose status as environmental educator comes with her role as executive director of Keep Golden Isles Beautiful. The nonprofit organization introduced this new recycling program Thursday, setting up a demonstration table in the student center on the campus, located on Atlama Avenue in Brunswick. Pens, highlighters and markers cannot be recycled locally. But Keep Golden Isles Beautiful collects these items and sends them off to TerraCycle, a non-traditional recycling organization. Terra Cycle is a global nonprofit organization that finds uses for hundreds of items that are not part of traditional large-scale recycling efforts, such as aluminum cans, plastic bottles and paper. “Pens, markers and highlighters are things that are normally thrown away because we do not have the ability to recycle these locally in Glynn County,” King-Badyna said. “It is just another way that Keep Golden Isles Beautiful and our partners can help reduce waste and keep these things out of the landfill.” Keep Golden Isles Beautiful has already seen success with this program in a school setting. During the Recycling Challenge in October, some 14 public and private schools combined to deliver 65 pounds of used pens, markers and highlighters in a one-month period, King-Badyna said. “And that’s a lot,” King-Badyna said. “And once again it’s keeping it out of the landfill. It’s all about waste reduction.” Local residents also can drop off these used writing tools at the Keep Golden Isles Beautiful office, located on the first floor of Old City Hall, 503 Mansfield St. On campus at CCGA, students will find the clear plastic, cylindrical-shaped recyclable containers at the six locations spaced conveniently across campus. Matt Giovengo, a student at both CCGA and Brunswick High, has volunteered to empty containers monthly and take the recyclables to Keep Golden Isles Beautiful for shipment to TerraCycle. Seals plans to spread the word to fellow students at CCGA to stop putting used pens in the trash, on the ground and in the bottom of backpacks. “Finding a way to turn it into something new is really awesome,” Seals said. “I think students will be more than willing to put their pens into a receptacle.”

More than 500 people attended Loggerhead Marinelife Center's "TurtleWeen," held Oct. 22 at the center, at 14200 U.S. 1, in Juno Beach. At the annual Halloween-themed event, guests enjoyed fun activities including a costume parade, face painting and scientific experiments. New this year was the center's Candy Wrapper Recycling Program. Until Nov. 20, parents can bring their children's candy wrappers to Loggerhead Marinelife Center and place them in the TerraCycle bin on campus. At the end of November, the center will collect all recycling bags for shipping to TerraCycle. The wrappers will be used to make school supplies and other re-purposed materials.

Bestimmte Abfallprodukte sammeln, zum Recyceln an Terracycle schicken und dafür Spendengelder für gemeinnützige Einrichtungen erhalten: Das ist – kurz gesagt – das Konzept der kostenlosen Recyclingprojekte von Terracycle. Das 2001 in den USA gegründete Unternehmen hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, dort anzufangen, wo andere Entsorgungsfirmen aus Kostengründen kapitulieren: Bei der Rückführung schwer recycelbarer Abfallprodukte in den Wertstoffkreislauf. So entstehen etwa aus Zigarettenstummeln Transportkisten oder aus leeren Deodosen Kinderfahrräder.

Downtown Oakland Association has plans to decrease the amount of cigarette buds that are thrown on the streets by implementing ashtrays in high traffic, bar scene areas. These won’t just be any ashtrays, but SPECIAL ones!

An organization called TerraCycle will provide Downtown Oakland with ashtrays and swing by regularly to clear them out. TerraCycle is an innovative recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle waste. Instead of the cig buds going towards their normal destination, the landfill, TerraCycle will use a special process to convert the buds back into everyday products.