Australia: For the first time, Australians are being given the opportunity to recycle their contact lenses thanks to a collaboration between US firm TerraCycle and eye health product manufacturer Bausch + Lomb.
If you’re not ready to quit anytime soon, at least don’t litter. Each filter can contaminate two litres of water once in contact. That’s 9960 litres in this picture, and since my stay in the land down under is soon coming to and end,
TerraCycle Australia expect these very soon!”
Recycling coffee pods:
FLORISTS conjure up images of ‘love’ and one in Tamworth brings ‘love for the environment’ into the equation.
Azalea Florist has a collection bin for used coffee pods to be recycled, and business owner Mike Heckrotte estimates his bin alone has kept about 55,000 capsules out of landfill.
Recycling coffee pods:
FLORISTS conjure up images of ‘love’ and one in Tamworth brings ‘love for the environment’ into the equation.
Azalea Florist has a collection bin for used coffee pods to be recycled, and business owner Mike Heckrotte estimates his bin alone has kept about 55,000 capsules out of landfill.
Recycling coffee pods:
FLORISTS conjure up images of ‘love’ and one in Tamworth brings ‘love for the environment’ into the equation.
Azalea Florist has a collection bin for used coffee pods to be recycled, and business owner Mike Heckrotte estimates his bin alone has kept about 55,000 capsules out of landfill.
Australians are now able to recycle any brand of used contact lenses and blister packs for free, thanks to a newly established partnership between Bausch + Lomb and recycling business TerraCycle.
TerraCycle, the company that wants to recycle everything, is now able to recycle contact lens in Australia, thanks to a new partnership with Bausch + Lomb.
Contact lenses and blister packs are now nationally recyclable for the first time, thanks to a partnership between Bausch + Lomb Australia and recycling pioneers TerraCycle.
TerraCycle offers a program through L'Oreal that takes any makeup back, no matter what brand. "They also have an arrangement with Nespresso to take coffee pods, and one for toothbrushes and toothpastes," Giunta says.
Melbourne, recently heralded as the
world's most livable city in the world for the seventh year in the row, is home to a successful butt-recycling scheme in which over 350 cigarette waste disposal points — or "Enviropoles" — have been installed around town. The Enviropoles are regularly emptied and their contents shipped off to the United States where Trenton, New Jersey-based
TerraCycle recycles the plastic-containing cigarette filters into a variety of consumer products like outdoor plastic furniture and shipping pallets.
