Ce concours fait partie du programme de recyclage de produits désodorisants et d’entretien ménager organisé par TerraCycle Canada. Pour chaque morceau de déchets envoyé, les participants cumulent des points qui peuvent être traduits en dons à l'école.

Depuis 2015, les écoles Marguerite-Bourgeois et Jacques-Buteux ont recyclé plus de 133 896 articles. Le programme de recyclage TerraCycle Canada leur a versé plus de 3 500 $ pour leurs efforts.

 

What happens to a cigarette butt when you snub it out? The City of Fort Saskatchewan is in the beginning stages of a unique recyling program that recycles cigarette butts into such useable products as park benches. “How the program works is when our staff are emptying the city owned receptacles they keep them in a separate container from the garbage,” explained the city’s manager of Parks Services, Jean Dabels. “When we have the required quantity for shipping we contact TerraCycle and they send us a pre-paid shipping container. We ship the container to them and they recycle them into park benches, etc.” The program is of no cost to the city and it was brought to Parks department’s attention by a staff member in the transportation department.

Picture it. You have an emergency message to jot down, so you grab the nearest pen … and it’s dry. So you grab another pen, and another, then finally find the Holy Grail … a pen that works! You chicken-scratch that message and all is well. Though some us acknowledge the dry pen’s lifespan and toss it, many of us (cough, me, cough) put it back in the drawer, hoping it will come back to life, dreading its demise in landfill. This, of course, means repeating the whole frustrating process another day. If you too have a drawer full of expired pens, I have good news! What once could only go to landfill can now go to a special recycling program (no, not the blue bin, please don’t put pens in the blue bin).  We have a new program called “Operation Ecopen” What goes in?

Drinking more water helps your health in more ways than one: it replenishes fluids in muscles and tissues throughout the day and post-workout; it satisfies your thirst, which can sometimes be mistaken for hunger and cause you to inadvertently eat more than you need; it alleviates signs of dehydration like fatigue, brain fog, and headaches. I'm lucky to live in a municipality with great-tasting, safe drinking water straight from the tap, and there's filtered water at the office and the barre studio. But if that's not the case where you live, getting your required eight glasses a day becomes more challenging. The solution?

The third annual Febreze Frenzy contest is underway and New Glasgow's A.G. Memorial School is on the leaderboard to take home the top prize.  The contest is part of TerraCycle and Febreze's innovative collection-and-recycle program...

« L’école La Perdriolle est une école qui a l’écologie à cœur! » déclare Cynthia Bilodeau, enseignante. « En effet, portant fièrement l’étendard des écoles EVB (établissements vertes Bruntland), les élèves qui y gravitent sont des habituées de l’écologie, du pacifisme, de la solidarité et de la  démocratie. » Les étudiants de cette école participent à un certain nombre d’initiatives vertes, y compris celle-ci. Pour soutenir leurs chances de gagner ce concours, ils invitent le public à apporter des gourdes-collation usagées à leur école au lieu de les jeter.

The launch of the Great St. Lawrence River Cleanup began on Saturday and kept volunteers and crews very busy, pulling everything from plastic bottles to shopping carts to half of a car out of the river along Cornwall Harbour. “What the divers are doing right now is putting the garbage into piles,” said Karen Cooper, organizer of the cleanup. “They put it all together and then they will hoist it out on July 23.” Cooper said there were about 65 people involved in the cleanup. “Jared (Baker) and his guys pulled out half a car out of the river by themselves,” said Cooper. Cooper said this year they have added recycling to the event.

That's a lot of butts. In one day, Butt Blitz 2017 collected more than 7,600 cigarette butts in Vernon's downtown core. That is more than 15 pounds of cigarette butts. Twenty three people gave up a sunny Saturday to rid the downtown core of the disgusting cigarette remnants. This was the first year Vernon has participated in the Canada-wide blitz that has collected tens of thousands of cigarette butts over the years. Organizers said the event not only cleaned up the community, but raised awareness about the toxic impact of cigarette butts and how they pollute the environment, contaminate water and soil and poison wildlife. All the butts will be sent to Terracycle for recycling and redeemed for Terracycle points. Terracycle is a Canadian company that collects hard-to-recycle items and turns them into 'green' products. Through TerraCycle’s free recycling programs, participants can earn TerraCycle points which are redeemable for charitable gifts, TerraCycle products, or a donation to a school or non-profit of your choice. “The more butts we collect the more money we earn for charity,” said Elliman. Last year, the Canada-Wide total was 122,800 butts collected. This year's goal is 200,000. Pocket ashtrays will be available for purchase by donation at the event which is being organized by A Greener Future in partnership with BrainGarden.ca.

St. Anthony’s School is competing to win a picnic table made from recycled GoGo squeeZ pouches through the inaugural “Ready, Set, GoGo” collection contest, courtesy of GoGo squeeZ, the applesauce snack brand, and recycling company TerraCycle. St. Anthony’s School is hoping to collect the most snack pouch waste, including the flexible pouches and plastic caps, before May 31. Schools earn one point for each GoGo squeeZ pouch sent to TerraCycle for recycling and one point per each vote received on the contest page during the contest period. The grand prize picnic table will be made from recycled waste collected through the GoGo squeeZ Snack Pouch Recycling Program, a free, national program operated by GoGo squeeZ and TerraCycle. “Each classroom at our school has a designated TerraCycle bin where students put all items accepted by TerraCycle” said Amanda Saxton, teacher at St. Anthony’s School. “Green Team members empty the bins periodically into a larger bin and then waste is sorted monthly and shipped.” The GoGo squeeZ Snack Pouch Recycling Program recently hit a nationwide milestone of over 315,000 units collected and nearly $7,000 dollars raised for charity. “We would love to win this contest because our school has been involved in Terracycle for a number of years,” Saxton continues. “It would be very rewarding for students to see firsthand an example of a product that can be created from the items we've been collecting for years.” The program is an ongoing activity, open to any individual, family, school or community group. For each piece of waste sent in using a pre-paid shipping label, participants earn points that can be translated into charitable prizes or cash donations to the school or charity of their choice. To learn more about the program, visit www.terracycle.ca/en-CA/brigades/snack-pouch-brigade.