TRENTON, N.J., March 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Today TerraCycle, the company known for recycling-the-unrecyclable, announced record expansion and unprecedented revenue growth, making the last 15 months the most successful in the company's history.
Trenton-based
TerraCycle, a company known for “recycling-the-unrecyclable,” announced record expansion and revenue growth.
In the middle segment, we interview Jessica Panetta from Terracycle, a private recycling company that helps close the gap where municipal recycling systems fail or can't handle certain materials. We talk to Jessica about recycling cigarette buts, making benches out of bottles and complimenting municipal systems.
TerraCycle was featured in a 30 minute podcast episode on the Zero Waste Countdown, which can also be downloaded on the Podcast app (AppleCoreMedia), iTunes, Stitcher and Castbox.
Consumer products giant P&G is tackling marine pollution by creating bottles made from beach plastic and developing new technologies to reduce waste. P&G’s Virginie Helias talks about the importance of collaboration to solve the ocean plastic crisis.
Envision Plastics has launched a bottle made completely from materials at risk of becoming marine debris.
The reclaimer says its first 100 percent OceanBound plastic container is being used by Primal Group’s Vita brand of personal care products.
“Envision is proud of the work we are doing by collecting and recycling OceanBound Plastic, but we are excited that it was able to displace 100 percent of the virgin resin in the bottle and colorant,” Dan Ferus, general manager of Envision Plastics, stated in a
press release.