TERRACYCLE NEWS

ELIMINATING THE IDEA OF WASTE®

Free Guitar Recycling and Restringing Event

Riverton Music is hosting a free recycling and restring event for local musicians. Sponsored by D’Addario, participants can bring old guitar strings in to recycle, as well as get their guitars restrung with D’Addario NYXL or Nickel Bronze Acoustic strings. The collected strings will be recycled through Playback, D’Addario’s national recycling program.

TerraCycle's beautiful plan for old mascara tubes

L'Oréal Australia has partnered with TerraCycle to launch a collection and recycling service for consumers. Beauty and personal care packaging from any company can be taken to a collection point and recycled for free. "TerraCycle's focus is taking traditionally unrecyclable products and making them recyclable to divert as much waste as possible from landfill," Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle, told The Huffington Post Australia.

Richard Pratt's former escort Madison Ashton undergoes painful rejuvenation

L'Oreal are doing more for the environment than most government bodies. The cosmetics giant has joined forces with Terracycle which will collect and process all of our beauty products, recycle them and melt them into plastics ready to be turned into frisbees or park benches. L'Oreal encourage you to send in empty make-up products to save them from landfill, they'll even pay the postage. To learn more head to terracycle.com.au

Sustainable brands share value and engender trust in products and services

Sustainable Brands (SB16) called out “now is the time for business leaders to learn how to successfully innovate their brands to ensure a sustainable future.” Local and international presenters and over 200 delegates came from food, retail, building products, transport and infrastructure, insurance, architecture and construction, banks, energy, technology, medicine, government agencies, corporates and a smattering of smaller businesses.