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ELIMINATING THE IDEA OF WASTE®

Festival to offer recycling options

Attendees to the 11th annual Earth Festival will have ample opportunity to rid themselves of unwanted materials normally difficult to recycle. In keeping with Earth Festival tradition, a host of items will be accepted for recycling at the event, which will take place at Milford Central School from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 9.

Oakville's Sheridan Public School new drop-off for air care packaging

People can help Sheridan Public School by recycling waste from products used to clean or freshen their home or air. The local public elementary school is a new recycling drop-off point for all air and home care packaging, which will be delivered regularly to recycling company TerraCycle Canada. This type of waste includes: used plastic air fresheners and plug-in refills; trigger heads, pumps and caps; and flexible, home-cleaning wipe packs of any brand.

Recycle and 'upcycle' comes to Prince Rupert

Being green on the North Coast just got a little easier. The Discovery Child Care Centre on Prince Rupert Boulevard is now a designated drop-off point for people to leave recyclables that are made of mixed plastics, which require expensive recycling methods. The North Coast, among other regions in Canada, doesn’t have the infrastructure to recycle these plastics so they end up in the landfill. For 10 years the daycare centre has participated with competitions organized by TerraCycle, an international recycling company that works with over 100 brands. The competitions are based on what companies are willing to sponsor and participants, such as the child care centre, get money for every item they return.

Recyclingwettbewerb: Alte Stifte gegen Sitzgelegenheit in der Sonne tauschen

Jetzt rufen TerraCycle und BiC dazu auf, zwischen dem 1. März und 31. Mai möglichst viele alte Plastikstifte und Korrekturmittel zum Recycling einzusenden. Den Gewinnern winkt passend zum Frühlingserwachen eine Sitzgruppe aus recyceltem Material von Westfalia Spielgeräte: Der ersten Frühlingssonne im Garten, Schulhof oder auf der Unternehmensterrasse steht somit nichts mehr im Wege.

Turning old mail into garden furniture

Australia Post announced this week a national recycling program for used plastic mail satchels that will hopefully reduce the amount of satchels reaching landfill. The national postal service provider says the free program will see used satchels sent on to waste solutions company TerraCycle for processing into items like esky liners and plastic garden furniture.
Now the program is underway, consumers can box up old satchels, download a label from the TerraCycle website, and drop them into any Australia Post outlet