Transcript: TerraCycle is a recycling company that deals with hard-to-recycle waste such as toothbrushes, coffee capsules, and even cigarette butts and chewing gum! World Environment Day 2017 is coming up on Monday June 5, and in line with this year’s theme With Nature, TerraCycle is calling on New Zealanders to recycle and raise money for nature. In New Zealand we offer a number of free programs that allow you to recycle ‘non-recyclable’ packaging and products. From oral care waste and yoghurt pouches to coffee capsules and soft plastic food storage products, our programs deal with items that many don’t realise are in fact recyclable. These programs are sponsored by brands such as GLAD, Colgate, The Collective, Nescafe Dolce Gusto, Fonterra and more, which means you can recycle these products for free. Anyone can sign up to TerraCycle, whether you’re a household, office, school or clean-up organisation. Our recycling programs also give back to the community through a cool points scheme. You receive two points – which is converted to two cents - for each piece of waste sent in to TerraCycle, which can be donated to your chosen not-for-profit or school. This World Environment Day we’re encouraging you to start thinking about how your donation can make an impact on protecting the environment. Clean-up groups, environment and wildlife protection associations, food waste-minimisation initiatives and more, are all organisations worth considering for World Environment Day. Find out more about how you can recycle at TerraCycle.co.nz – T E R R A C Y C L E .co.nz

Calling all environmentalist...Are you a keen recycler? Do you wonder what to do with those hard-to-recycle materials like yoghurt pouches, coffee capsules and toothpaste tubes? Ahead of Earth Day later this month community members are being sought to sign up as recycling hubs to deal with just those items which would otherwise end up in landfill. TerraCycle, an eco-friendly recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling typically non-recyclable waste, is behind the scheme to grow the public drop-off network. The network comprises all kinds of locations, including schools, sports clubs, community centres, libraries, offices, and individual homes. The waste products are then recycled or upcycled rather than being incinerated or ending up in landfill. Items are shredded and turned into plastic pellets which can be used to make new items including playground equipment, fitness equipment and outdoor furniture. There are 233 active participants in North Canterbury for recycling programmes and about 18 drop-off points, most of which are florists collecting for the Nespresso Coffee Capsules Programme. As well as coffee capsules, other programmes available in New Zealand the Fonterra Pouch Recycling Programme, the GLAD Food Storage Recycling Programme and the Oral Care Recycling programme sponsored by Colgate. The programmes then give back to communities through a points scheme, raising money for a chosen school or not-for-profit organisation. Globally, TerraCycle works with more than 110 or the world's largest consumer goods brands to collect 75 different waste streams, including coffee capsules, toothbrushes, chewing gum and even cigarette waste. It operates in 20 countries and has over 60 million people participating globally in its programmes to collect waste and has diverted almost 5 billion units of waste from landfill and paid more than $15 million to charities and schools worldwide. To learn more about TerraCycle or get involved, visit terracycle.com Northern Outlook_Apr 11

Mountain View School in Mangere Bridge has a long-held enthusiasm for recycling. From food waste to rearranging rocks - if something is no longer useful, then they find another purpose for it. A quick tour of the school grounds with Principal Sue McLachlan is accompanied by a host of stories about the ways in which the students are taught to think about and value, their environment. It is no surprise then, to learn that from 1450 entrants, the students have been awarded Fonterra's 2016 Recycling Champions. For the past four years the school has been a recipient of the Fonterra Milk in Schools programme, as part of which they are taught to recycle the cardboard milk packs. The students had to collect all the empty containers, fold them in a special way, so any drops don't leak out, and stack them neatly for the milkman to collect. Initially the milkman nominates the best schools in his delivery area. Then the nominated schools create a video telling the story of their commitment to waste reduction, before the winner is chosen. At assembly on Thursday the 9th of March, the whole school was presented with a trophy by TerraCycle, and thirty students were chosen to attend an upcycling workshop. TerraCycle is a specialist recycling organisation which partners with businesses to create recycling solutions for waste that is not usually considered recyclable. For example, they have come up with a way to recycle cigarette butts into compost and plastic pellets. At Mountain View School, the students created coin pouches, tote bags, and tic-tac-toe sets out of old containers. With the help of some strong tape, Velcro dots and enthusiasm they created some bright, interesting and practical items from rubbish. Student Breeze Johnson is a milk monitor, which means she is one of the team who deliver milk around the school on a daily basis. She says recycling is "good, it keep my school clean. I enjoy making fun things." Onehunga Community News_Apr 7

Thank you to Jo from Fonterra who popped in to school for morning tea today and gave all of our students (and staff) a delicious yoghurt. TerraCycle and Fonterra have partnered to create the Fonterra Pouch Recycling Programme, a free recycling programme for Anchor Uno pouches, Fresh ‘n Fruity pouches or any other yoghurt pouches.

The national winners of a recycling competition have now advanced to the next stage in saving the planet - upcycling. Mountain View School in Mangere Bridge took the first place in Fonterra's Milk for Schools recycling excellence competition this year. Their prize for being the best in the country was a DIY workshop held by TerraCycle. The winner last year was Miramar Central Primary in Wellington. To enter the competition, the students created a video showcasing how they minimise waste and increase recycling at their school. Their submission was judged as the most impressive. In an interactive session, the kids had a crash course in recycling, and how to reuse waste in functional ways. They learnt how to make bags, tic-tac-toe sets and coin pouches out of Fonterra yoghurt pouches. Deputy principal Joy Fraser says the school has always stressed the importance of recycling and minimising waste. "They're our future leaders. They are the ones we have to rely on," she says. The workshop has helped them grasp a whole new side to reusing waste. "It has given them an insight into how you can recycle and what other things you can make with it [waste]. They've been shown a dress made from a tent," she says. "They've learnt that it's worth recycling, not just to planet clean, but to make things for their own use." Evarose Inamata, one of the students participating in the workshop, says this is the first time she's made a bag from waste. She plans to put her money in the pouch she made. Ten-year-old Tevita Manu learnt that "you don't always have to put rubbish in the bin, but you could actually use it". And he plans on passing this knowledge to his family and friends. "I'm going to tell them don't chuck things straight in the bin. Think of what you can turn them into," he says. TerraCycle has been working with schools in partnership with Fonterra to encourage recycling at a young age. Schools that are interested in joining the programme can find more information at www.fonterramilkforschools.com.

Mountain View School in Mangere Bridge took the first place in Fonterra's Milk for Schools recycling excellence competition this year. Their prize for being the best in the country was a DIY workshop held by TerraCycle. TerraCycle has been working with schools in partnership with Fonterra to encourage recycling at a young age. Manukau Courier_13 March

On Friday July 1, TerraCycle's founder and CEO, Tom Szaky, appeared on Breakfast in New Zealand. Scroll to 13:00 to see the interview.

The Environment: Once the kids have refuelled with Anchor Uno, they can recycle or reuse the packaging.  Thanks to TerraCycle, New Zealanders are able to collect and recycle their Anchor Uno yoghurt pouches returning them free of charge to TerraCycle who will upcycle the pouches into children's pencil cases and carry bags or recycle the pouches in to new products such as chairs and park benches.  Returned pouches raise TerraCycle points which convert to dollars to be gifted to your local school, charity or community group.  Visit Terracycle for more information about how to return your yoghurt pouches for free!

The programme encourages people to collect empty yoghurt pouches from Fonterra or any other brand, and send it to TerraCycle, a recycling company, in exchange for money that will be put towards a charity or local organisation of your choice. Waiuku & Districts Post April 12 2016