Beginning now through June 13, schools in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut and Maryland have a chance to win a new playground made completely of recycled material. To be eligible, the schools must participate in the Oral Care Brigade™, a free recycling program run by Colgate and TerraCycle. Schools will earn one ‘Playground Credit’ for each shipment of empty toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes, and floss containers sent to TerraCycle.
The MID, which collects more than 2,200 gallons of trash downtown on any given day, is working with a company called TerraCycle to recycle the butts. The 14-year-old New Jersey company works with a variety of companies to collect difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and repurposes the material.
Der Hauptstadtgarten Berlin hat seine Sammelstation eröffnet. Jetzt werden im Garten nicht nur alternative Anbaukonzepte wie z.B. Aquaponic erprobt, sondern auch Stifte, Zahnbürsten und Zigarettenstummel fürs Recycling gesammelt!
As simple as that: Pens don't have to end up in the bin no more, instead they can be recycled by an environmental enterprise for a good purpose. Just collect your empty pens in a box of your choice which you can send to TerraCycle for free and in exchange you'll get 2 centimes for each item, that you can donate to the charitable organization of your choice.
Das Luxus-Hotel Ritz-Carlton in Berlin nimmt am Recyclingprogramm von TerraCycle Deutschland teil, durch das Stifte recycelt und Spenden für nachhaltige Zwecke generiert werden. Die Hotelmitarbeiterinnen und Hotelmitarbeiter sammelten bereits über 1.250 Stifte und leisten damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Ressourcenschonung. Mit dem Sammelprogramm konnten außerdem über die Klimaschutzorganisation PrimaKlima 25 Bäume in Nicaragua gepflanzt werden.
Grazer / Grazerinnen haben jetzt die Möglichkeit, Umwelt-Engagement zu zeigen und zu ermöglichen, dass Zigarettenabfall erstmals recycelt werden kann.
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Ritz-Carlton Berlin nimmt an einem Recyclingprogramm teil, durch das Stifte erstmals recycelt werden können und Spenden für nachhaltige Zwecke generiert werden. Das Ritz Carlton am Berliner Potsdamer Platz sammelte bereits über 1.250 Stifte, die jetzt recycelt werden und wodurch ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Ressourcenschonung geleistet wird. Durch das Engagement von Ritz Carlton in Berlin können zusätzlich über die Klimaschutzorganisation PrimaKlima 25 Bäume in Nicaragua gepflanzt werden, um CO2-Emissionen weiter zu kompensieren.
Skyers’ team worked this year with Colgate and recycling company TerraCycle Inc. on a contest promoted in ShopRite stores giving schools a chance to win a playground made of recycled oral care materials. More than 100 schools participated, earning credits by sending in used oral care products. The winning school, BelovED Community Charter School in Jersey City, N.J., received its new playground in November.
TerraCycle’s mail-in recycling programs in collaboration with
Colgate and
Tom’s of Maine are just about the only recycling options available. You can collect your empty toothpaste tubes (as well as old toothbrushes and floss containers) and ship them for free to TerraCycle to be recycled into new products. Large enough shipments can raise money for your chosen school or charity. Alternatively, you could
upcycle that old tube into a useful craft.
