Besides domestic players, China also welcomed TerraCycle, a UN Monument Award winning waste management company based in Trenton, New Jersey to help tackle China's plastic pollution. TerraCycle came to China in 2016 with a Colgate-sponsored program to recycle used toothpaste tubes and toothbrushes. It has since collected 63,000 pieces of oral care waste from Chinese consumers. A contest was recently launched among elementary schools in Shanghai for young children to recycle oral care waste and get votes on children's drawings themed "Green Future". The winning school will receive a 3D printer. "A green future will not happen without a clean and healthy environment - that's the educational message we want to send out," said Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle.