El costo ambiental es un parámetro que permite medir en valor económico el daño medioambiental causado por actividades productivas por la sociedad.

En un estudio publicado en 2010 por la consultoría Trucost se afirma que el costo ambiental total producido por las empresas supera los 2.2 billones de dólares al año; los daños corresponderían a un 6 y 7% de su producción total. A su vez, se calculó que esos daños pueden sobrepasar en valor al de la mayor parte de las economías nacionales de algunos países del mundo.

Tom Szaky has a motto: “Garbage is my passion.” The Princeton dropout with the mad-scientist mien wandered into the headlines in 2001 when he announced his intention to create a business empire selling worm-poop fertilizer. The company he launched to build it, TerraCycle, now generates annual revenues in the tens of millions (not from worm poop, but through recycled cigarette butts, coffee pods and more). It’s even been the subject of a TV docu-comedy, Human Resources, about its team of quirky-cool staffers and their mission to repurpose stuff like rolled-up toothpaste tubes. Now TerraCycle is making news with a project Szaky, 35, of Titusville, is especially proud of: turning plastics chucked into the world’s oceans into shampoo bottles. “People always ask me, ‘What are you doing about ocean plastics?’ And frankly, I’ve never had a good answer for them,” says Szaky. Now TerraCycle has linked with Proctor & Gamble to make Head & Shoulders bottles out of water bottles, sand shovels and other sun-scorched debris.

Instead of sending plastics collected during beach cleanups to the territory’s nearly full landfills, a new program will recycle them and see to it that they become something new – in this case, a shampoo bottle. Working in partnership with the recycling company TerraCycle and the consumer goods producer Proctor & Gamble, the Department of Planning and Natural Resources’ Division of Coastal Zone Management is working to collect thousands of pounds of beach plastic to fill one 40-foot container.

Department of Planning and Natural Resources announced on Monday the unveiling of a beach plastic recycling program in the U.S. Virgin Islands, whose aim is to collect and recycle plastics from territorial coastal cleanup efforts. The Division of Coastal Zone Management worked with TerraCycle Inc., the world’s leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste, to bring the program to the USVI.

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Quel est votre geste écolo ? Je vous l’ai déjà dit. Je chauffe juste ce qu’il faut la maison. L’hiver on met des pulls mais on prend des bains. Alors l’un dans l’autre ? Non, mon vrai geste écolo c’est de ramasser les détritus. Dans ma rue et dans la Seine, et quand je suis au bord de la mer, y compris et surtout l’été dans le Bassin d’Arcachon. En priorité les plastiques, les papiers qui traînent et bien sûr les bouteilles en verre et canettes en tout genre….

Cher tous, Le SIRTOM du laonnois déploie une collecte des instruments d’écriture, dans le but d’obtenir au minimum 20 kg de stylos, feutres, tubes de colle vides afin de les faire parvenir à Terracycle