A criançada do Núcleo de Educação Infantil Municipal de Florianópolis (NEIM), São João Batista, no Rio Vermelho, está em sintonia com o meio ambiente. Cerca de 430 pequenos têm atividades na horta e na composteira da unidade, sob a articulação da diretora Nisete Maura Nunes e do funcionário Alécio Hercílio Lucas.

A criançada do Núcleo de Educação Infantil Municipal de Florianópolis (NEIM), São João Batista, no Rio Vermelho, está em sintonia com o meio ambiente.

Between 1 August and 16 November 2018, the Colgate Community Garden Challenge invites pre-, primary and secondary schools nationwide to collect all brands of oral care waste and send it to TerraCycle, who will give the waste a second life by creating new products.

Children at Rainbow Cottage preschool in Whangamata are diverting non-recyclable yoghurt pouches and toothbrushes from landfill. Once the yoghurt pouch and oral care waste is collected, Rainbow Cottage packs and sends them to TerraCycle, who shreds, cleans and melts them down into raw materials to create garden beds, park benches and playgrounds.

NEWARK, N.J., (July 3, 2018) –TerraCycle today announced the 2018 Save Water Garden promotion, the first-ever pledging contest with Colgate-Palmolive (“Colgate”), the global oral care leader, and regional retailer ShopRite. The partnership calls upon school students, teachers and communities to take the pledge to save water on behalf of their school for a chance to win one of two (2) recycled gardens made from recycled oral care waste.

Kiwi kids and students have the chance to win a recycled community garden set by diverting tens of thousands of oral care products from landfill, thanks to a recycling competition run by Colgate and TerraCycle. Between 1 August and 16 November 2018, the Colgate Community Garden Challenge invites pre-, primary and secondary schools nationwide to collect all brands of oral care waste and send it to TerraCycle, who will give the waste a second life by creating new products.

The kids at Rainbow Cottage preschool in Whangamata are diverting non-recyclable yoghurt pouches from landfill on behalf of the community as part of a recycling programme operated by Fonterra. In doing so, the preschool has the chance to win a pack of lunch bags and pencil cases made from upcycled yoghurt pouches, in a national recycling competition called the Fonterra Snap, Recycle & Win competition.

TerraCycle specialises in converting traditionally non-recyclable waste such as cigarette butts, coffee capsules and cosmetic packaging into new products, including playgrounds and garden beds. Their Colgate Community Garden Challenge with New Zealand schools aims to divert tens of thousands of toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes from the landfill.

Here are a few ideas that should help point you in the right directions. This is by no means a comprehensive list. Please add suggestions on our Facebook page and let other locals know other easy ways to avoid filling the landfill faster... Waste collected through the Terracycle program turns cigarettes and their plastic package wrappers into plastic pallets and compost.

Frederick Irwin Anglican School has launched a recycling drive for oral health care products at the Meadow Springs primary school campus. To help children champion recycling and sustainability, Colgate, Chemist Warehouse and TerraCycle launched the 2018 Colgate Community Garden Challenge to give students the chance to win one of five recycled community garden sets to grow their own vegetables.