Swiffer recycling

I get all sorts of press releases over the transom. One that caught my eye this week was an announcement from Swiffer — the product that “gives cleaning a whole new meaning — that it was launching a recycling program.   The company has teamed up with recycling company TerraCycle to allow consumers to recycle products such as Sweeper Dry Refills, Sweeper Wet Refills, Duster Refills and WetJet Refills.   You just save your used Swiffer products, box them up (after they’re dry, of course; UPS won’t accept dripping packages), print a mailing label from TerraCycle and send them off. The company will separate the components and recycle the plastics.   If you’re interested, go to terracycle.com/en-US/brigades/swiffer and sign up.   Swiffer and TerraCycle didn’t mention whether the carbon footprint of trucking or flying all that stuff across the country would negate any benefit gained by recycling the plastic.