The Los Alamos Co-op Market’s TerraCycle program raised $405 for local nonprofits over the past year, which benefited Pajarito Environmental Education Center and the Friends of the Shelter. PEEC received $135, while FOS received $270.
Each year the Co-op invites customers, staff and volunteers to vote for recipients of the TerraCycle funds.
TerraCycle, a company seeking to eliminate the idea of waste, turns items previously considered trash into desirable products including park benches and hand bags. The Co-op’s TerraCycle program accepts items such as chip bags, cereal bags or cereal box liners and baby food pouches.
Glass items can also be recycled separately at the Co-op.
For more information on the Co-op or the TerraCycle program, call 695-1579 or visit
losalamos.coop.
A shelter volunteer turned the humane society on to TerraCycle, which works with more than 100 major brands in the U.S. and 22 other countries to take the packaging from many common, but difficult-to-recycle products and turn it into affordable, innovative products items such as lunch boxes, office supplies, fertilizer, clothing, jewelry and more (view products on
dwellsmart.com)
Natural and organic foods retailer Alfalfa’s Market will kick off its second B’Earthday celebration with an enhanced recycling program.
Starting yesterday,
Alfalfa’s will allow customers to deposit used baby food pouches, Tom’s of Maine personal care items, and No. 4 plastic bags at the store. The grocer will send these items to Terracycle where they will be recycled and made into new plastic items, such as park benches, backpacks and tote bags.
BOULDER - Alfalfa's Market and the nonprofit Center for ReSource Conservation are among the local companies and groups that have plans to celebrate Earth Day, Monday, April 22.
Boulder-based Alfalfa's plans to kick off a beefed-up recycling program on Wednesday, April 17, in honor of Earth Day, the company said in a press statement. Customers can recycle used baby food pouches, Tom's of Maine personal care items and No. 4 plastic bags at the store under the new program. Alfalfa's will send the items to Terracycle, based in Trenton, New Jersey, to be made into new plastic items such as park benches, backpacks and tote bags.
Natural and organic foods retailer
Alfalfa’s Market will kick off its second B’Earthday celebration with an enhanced recycling program.
Beginning April 17, Alfalfa’s will allow customers to deposit used baby food pouches, Tom’s of Maine personal care items, and No. 4 plastic bags at the store. The grocer will send these items to Terracycle where they will be recycled and made into new plastic items, such as park benches, backpacks and tote bags.
Natural and organic foods retailer
Alfalfa’s Market will kick off its second B’Earthday celebration with an enhanced recycling program.
Beginning April 17, Alfalfa’s will allow customers to deposit used baby food pouches, Tom’s of Maine personal care items, and No. 4 plastic bags at the store. The grocer will send these items to Terracycle where they will be recycled and made into new plastic items, such as park benches, backpacks and tote bags.
BOULDER - Alfalfa's Market and the nonprofit Center for ReSource Conservation are among the local companies and groups that have plans to celebrate Earth Day, Monday, April 22.
Boulder-based Alfalfa's plans to kick off a beefed-up recycling program on Wednesday, April 17, in honor of Earth Day, the company said in a press statement. Customers can recycle used baby food pouches, Tom's of Maine personal care items and No. 4 plastic bags at the store under the new program. Alfalfa's will send the items to Terracycle, based in Trenton, New Jersey, to be made into new plastic items such as park benches, backpacks and tote bags.
