Did you know that beauty waste (all those pretty personal care and beauty packaging on your makeup table) account for one third of all landfill waste? Wow, we had no idea. In an effort to curb that, Garnier, along with The Trust for Public Land, the City of Newark’s Office of Sustainability, and its Department of Neighborhood Services, recently announced the installation of 54 community recycling containers at three local Newark parks.
The Trust for Public Land,
Garnier—a subsidiary of L’Oreal, USA—and the City of Newark’s Office of Sustainability and its Department of Neighborhood Services have announced the installation of 54 community recycling containers at Nat Turner, Jesse Allen, and Mildred Helms parks.
We’ve all heard it – “save the planet”, “go green”, “reduce, reuse, recycle.” Here’s an easy way to do just that and potentially earn money for your group or charity through TerraCycle.
Tennyson Elementary School is feeling green.
Through the TerraCycle program, students and faculty at Tennyson have been cutting down waste by focusing on recycling
Theresa Underhill and Alyssa Bruner are Green Team leaders for the project.
Three fifth grade students also make up the Green Team — Lyla Schmitt, Warren Koss and Josh Grosvenor.
O que fazer com os nossos frascos de perfume, embalagens de maquiagem e potes de cremes, descartados após o uso? Difíceis de reciclar, os resíduos de plástico e de vidro geralmente têm como destino os lixeiros suburbanos. Para combater o acúmulo de lixo, a empresa TerraCycle, criada pelo americano Tom Szaky, propõe uma solução: transformar materiais coletados por colaboradores em produtos criativos.
Building awareness about environmental concerns is one thing. Getting people to actually change their behaviors and become better stewards of the environment themselves is quite another, and much more difficult to accomplish as University of Illinois students in Ming Kuo's Environmental Psychology class learned. They worked in groups to evaluate programs that promote environmental sustainability and make recommendations for how the programs could improve their effectiveness. According to Kuo, the student groups were paired with actual clients, making the project not just an assignment for a grade, but a real-world problem to solve.
Cheryl Bertou and her 9-year-old son, who participate in TerraCycle's Brigade program, were featured on Rochester News. Cheryl effectively articulates what TerraCycle is all about in this two minute clip.
PTO is excited to announce that our school is going GREEN! We teamed up with a program called TERRACYCLE. We are going to be collecting a number of items to recycle and earn CASH. Each classroom will have a bin to place collected items, which may be brought from home or just saved from lunch/snacks at school. Please consider getting involved as we strive to make God’s creation a beautiful masterpiece one community at a time. Below is a list of all items we are going to collect. PTO will keep everyone informed throw here as to our progress throughout the year.
Under the leadership of volunteer Sarah Martin, and University of Maine at Farmington intern Joe Dignam, TerraCycle was launched. In this program various products -- from shampoo bottles to foil-lined granola bar wrappers -- are sent to TerraCycle headquarters in New Jersey where they are recycled into other products or up-cycled into functional art such as juice box tote bags. TerraCycle pays money for the products that are shipped to them so the environment and United Way benefits.
It takes a lot of work to look our best, and especially a lot of products: Conditioner, bronzer, mascara and moisturizer, among others. With class presentations, sorority functions, date nights, formals and girls-night-outs, these products create a ton of waste over time. It’s easy to toss used beauty supplies in the trash, but what makes us look good for one night will spend years in a landfill! Here’s how to look great and help the environment by recycling your waste with TerraCycle:
