What do you do with your used makeup packaging, expired batteries or obsolete spectacles? Too often these items - and many others - get thrown in the general rubbish, ending up in landfill when in fact they can be recycled.
What do you do with your used makeup packaging, expired batteries or obsolete spectacles? Too often these items – and many others – get thrown in the general rubbish, ending up in landfill when in fact they can be recycled.
Melbourne Mayor Robert Doyle said that Melbourne is the only one in Australia to carry out all-round cigarette butt development projects in one of the regions. Up to now, they can collect more than 200,000 cigarettes per week at 367 cigarette butts.
Consumers now have the chance to recycle their used contact lenses and blister packs for free as part of a partnership between Bausch + Lomb Australia and recycling company TerraCycle.
TerraCycle specialises in dealing with hard-to-recycle items, so before you take that old printer to the kerb, consider signing up and saving your old goods from landfill.
Terracycle offers many collection programs to help recycle things that can’t normally be recycled, such as coffee capsules, cigarette butts, plastic pens and and padded envelopes. Visit them at www.terracycle.com.au.
SOUNDS kooky, but your used contact lenses and plastic blister packs can now be recycled into park bench seats, watering cans and more.
People can recycle their used contact lenses and blister packs, and turn them into sustainable products such as garden furniture and watering cans.
Cigarette butts are a big littering problem and in good news millions have been collected from Melbourne's CBD and will be used to make plastic products such as ashtrays, bike rakes and shipping pallets.
