VILLA PARK – Villa Park’s Environmental Concerns Commission will offer a recycling drop-off location Sept. 10 during the village’s Oktoberfest.
The Environmental Concerns Commission also will be running a booth from noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 10 at Oktoberfest to educate patrons about what products are recyclable. Stop by the commission’s booth to get information about its recycling efforts and other environmental issues and learn what items can be recycled curbside.
Attendees can drop off pens, mechanical pencils, markers, highlighters, crayons – used, new, broken and whole – Brita and PUR pitchers, filters, packaging, faucet mounts and adapters and Brita bottles. The crayons will be taken to the local nonprofit SCARCE.
The other items will be sent to the international company Terracycle. It’s “widely considered the world’s leader in the collection and reuse of nonrecyclable, post-consumer waste,” according to its website Terracycle.com.
Recycling old school binders when purchasing new ones is being offered to shoppers by Terracycle at Office Depot and OfficeMax stores.
Office Depot has teamed with Trenton-based Terracycle, which collects and repurposes hard-to-recycle, post-consumer waste. Shoppers can bring any old, empty binder to an Office Depot or OfficeMax retail location and receive a $2 instant discount off a same-day binder purchase.
The Binder Recycling Program encourages shoppers to help preserve the environment by recycling, since many binders are tossed into the garbage after each school year. TerraCycle is able to recycle the binders, significantly reducing the amount of waste going into landfills.
“We’re excited to partner with TerraCycle this back-to-school season as parents, teachers and students prepare for the school year with new supplies,” said Ron Lalla, executive vice president of merchandising for Office Depot. “The program provides a way to recycle binders in an environmentally conscious way while also offering a discount to shoppers who are looking for new ones.”
TerraCycle works with major manufacturers and retailers to recycle products and packaging that would normally be thrown away. To learn more about TerraCycle and its innovative recycling solutions, visit
www.terracycle.com. For more information on the Office Depot Binder Recycling Program, visit
officedepot.com/recyclebinders
The $2 discount applies only to binders purchased and will not be applied to any free binders with a purchase. It is limited to six discounts per household or business.
Area participating stores are Office Max, Route 541, Burlington Township and Office Depot, Route 561, Voorhees.
Founded in 2001, TerraCycle, Inc., collects and re-purposes waste, ranging from used potato chip bags to coffee capsules to cigarette butts. The waste is collected through free, national, brand-funded recycling programs, as well as various consumer and government-funded models. The collected waste is reused, upcycled or recycled into a variety of affordable, sustainable consumer products and industrial applications.
Each year, across 20 countries, TerraCycle collects and repurposes billions of pieces of waste, donating millions of dollars to schools and charities in the process. To learn more about TerraCycle or get involved in its recycling programs, visit
www.terracycle.com
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A Prefeitura de Nova Roma do Sul, em parceria com a Câmara de Indústria, Comércio, Serviços e Agropecuária - CIC de Antônio Prado está aderindo a campanha de coleta de embalagens vazias da TerraCycle...
Want to recycle your toothbrush? Yes,
it’s possible! Terracycle have partnered with a number of different companies and created programs to recycle many of the soft waste items around your home. Heard about how terrible your coffee pods are for the environment? Terracycle have a
program to recycle them.
How did I end up with a new coffee machine? Well, I was contacted by the folks at
TerraCycle as part of their initiative to spread the word about recycling coffee capsules. Coffee machines that use capsules have become quite popular during the last few years since they’re easy to use and taste a million times better than instant coffee (and I imagine all those Nespresso ads with George Clooney may have helped too).
But all those coffee capsules create a lot of garbage, right? Not necessarily! What many people probably don’t realize is that you don’t have to throw your capsules in the trash – many of them are
recyclable.
As someone who has been using a Nespresso machine multiple times a day for several years, this was pretty exciting for me to discover. And when TerraCycle offered to send my coffee-addicted self a new machine, well that was even more exciting.
In case you’d like to know a little something about who gave your reviewer her machine (and/or are interested in recycling), let me quickly give you the rundown on what TerraCycle is. TerraCycle is a company dedicated to ‘eliminating the idea of waste’ by recycling things that are generally considered ‘non-recyclable’. They operate in 20 different countries including Australia, the US, Canada, the UK and France. In Australia, TerraCycle has recently
partnered with Dolce Gusto to raise awareness about recycling coffee capsules.
As mentioned in the post, I received a Dolce Gusto ‘Stelia’ machine from TerraCycle (Australia). You can find out more information about the coffee capsule recycling program on their website.
