Wycombe resident Jo Sharp has signed up to various recycling programmes, including the Cathedral City Cheese Packaging Recycling Programme, the pladis (the brand behind McVitie’s and Jacob’s) Biscuits and Snacks Recycling Programme and the Pringles Tubes Recycling Programme, among others, which are offered by TerraCycle.
Karen James from
Rossington has collected nearly 20,000 items which are not accepted by
Doncaster Council for recycling.
She has set up a publicly accessible drop-off point at her home on Bond Street, allowing the whole community to send “unrecyclable” packaging and products for recycling.
For each shipment of material she sends to waste firm TerraCycle, Karen receives a monetary reward which she donates to the
RSPCA.
An Isle of Wight fancy dress and film collectable shop has raised more than £1,500 for local charities including The Footprint Trust by collecting ‘unrecyclable’ waste from the community to be recycled.
Once dropped off at the shop, the waste is recycled by TerraCycle, the world leader in recycling hard-to-recycle waste.
À l’initiative de Natacha Faivre de Terracycle et de l’Amicale laïque, les enfants de l’école Jacques-Yves Cousteau sont sensibilisés à l’idée de recycler des objets usuels.
Un geste pour la planete, des fonds pour l’Amicale
Terracycle propose à ceux qui le souhaitent d’allier une démarche solidaire à un geste positif pour la planète, en collectant les déchets non acceptés par les filières de tri traditionnelles.
A woman from Reading has saved five million pieces of waste from landfill and incineration.
Ali Chaney, from Three Miles Cross, has collected Marigold gloves, sweet wrappers and beauty products over nine years which can’t be recycled by the council.
She sends to TerraCycle to be processed and turned into picnic tables, outdoor furniture, and lumber for use in construction.