In order to help deal with processing cannabis waste packaging, TerraCycle and Tweed announced a cannabis packaging recycling program throughout Canada. The program accepts all cannabis waste packaging purchased from a licensed retailer. Materials include inner and outer plastic packaging, tins, joint tubes, plastic bottles, plastic caps and flexible plastic bags.

Amorepacific and TerraCycle have signed a memorandum of understanding on an initiative for the systematic recycling of empty bottles.

Where the cannabis industry grows, sustainable packaging solutions seem to follow. Also in Canada, the first nationwide cannabis packaging recycling program was rolled out by recycling experts TerraCycle and cannabis brand Tweed in April. Tweed had voiced the need for a recycling system for all the new containers, tubes and packages created by the growing cannabis industry, in a bid to divert these away from landfills and upcycling them into other products.

“Everything we pick up today will be counted and weighed,” said group spokesperson Laura Wood. “We sort the items into recyclable and non-recyclable. If it’s recyclable, it gets recycled here. All the cigarette butts are then shipped to TerraCycle.”

“Everything we pick up today will be counted and weighed,” said group spokesperson Laura Wood. “We sort the items into recyclable and non-recyclable. If it’s recyclable, it gets recycled here. All the cigarette butts are then shipped to TerraCycle.”

“Everything we pick up today will be counted and weighed,” said group spokesperson Laura Wood. “We sort the items into recyclable and non-recyclable. If it’s recyclable, it gets recycled here. All the cigarette butts are then shipped to TerraCycle.” The United States-based company, which has a facility in Fergus, offers free recycling programs that are funded by brands, manufacturers and retailers to help divert hard-to-recycle waste from landfill.

Have you heard of TerraCycle? TerraCycle is a global business that has some free programs to recycle packing and products that we normally throw in the trash, and turns it into raw materials to be used in new products. Things like Gillette razors, Burt’s Bees containers, Cliff Bar wrappers, Van’s shoes, and many more recycling programs for these products are free. Visit TerraCycle.com

They are also attempting to do their part for the environment through the implementation of an in-store recycling program — with the help of TerraCycle — where customers can drop off the plastic packaging, from any brand, with confidence knowing they will be properly recycled.

They are also attempting to do their part for the environment through the implementation of an in-store recycling program — with the help of TerraCycle — where customers can drop off the plastic packaging, from any brand, with confidence knowing they will be properly recycled.