The Sustainable Activity Centre launched a series of recycling containers on Wednesday, which will allow people to recycle containers used for beauty, cleaning and dental products, plus pens and postage packaging. Centre director Claire Greenhalgh said she was excited to get involved in the national TerraCycle program.

Freshwater State School is also a hive of activity in the lead-up to their annual event. As part of one initiative, students are collecting used dental hygiene products as part of a TerraCycle Oral Care Recycling Program.

Colgate has launched the second edition of the Colgate Community Recycle Drive. New Zealanders can now save used oral care items from landfill and join a nationwide competition to help raise funds for a local school, club or community group.

This weekend, a local recycling company is bringing together hip-hop music, breakdancing and graffiti murals for its annual arts festival in New Jersey’s capital.

This weekend, a local recycling company is bringing together hip-hop music, breakdancing and graffiti murals for its annual arts festival in New Jersey’s capital.

Thousands of families descended on the Henry Ford Museum last weekend for the 2016 Maker Faire Detroit. Kids had the opportunity to design, build and take home items like model race cars, leather wristbands and other do-it-yourself projects.

Wood-Ridge's Catherine E. Doyle Elementary School has won a new plastic playground made of recyclable materials. The school and community earned their prize by collecting Colgate brand plastic recyclables such as floss containers, toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes and sending them on to Terracycle, Inc. and also by voting online for their school.

For Veronica Rajadnya, what’s most rewarding about working for an innovative recycling company is that it brings people together. The numbers say it all. To date, over $60 million people in 20 countries have helped to collect and recycle enough waste to raise over $15 million for charities around the world.

It’s the classic camping paradox: You flee to the wilderness for the simplicity of a night in the woods, only to end up packing half the house in the car anyway. Between shelling out for the portable furniture, cooking supplies, sleeping bags, tent and oversized cooler, camping can be expensive — but there are some supplies you can slash costs on by making yourself.