When I say impractical what I really mean is expensive. Look at the company TerraCycle for example. They are a great organization who work with companies to recycle basically any product you can imagine. The catch.... they are pretty expensive. Let me give you an example.

Please choose the size box you'd like to purchase. When you receive your box fill it with the appropriate waste streams. Once full, bring your box to any UPS location to ship your items back to TerraCycle using the pre-paid UPS shipping label which is already affixed to your box. When we receive your box, we'll safely recycle all of the collected materials.

Staples Canada today released its Q1 sustainability update. Highlights include the launch of an in-store Keurig® brewer recycling program, a 32 percent increase in battery recycling and a 161.8 percent increase in writing instrument recycling.

Using garbage, she's raised more than $1,800 for her favourite causes Diane Davis has raised more than $1,800 over the past few years for several charities of her choice by collecting items that would otherwise end up in the landfill. The local woman sends the materials to TerraCycle Canada, an independent recycling agency specializing in diverting from landfill products municipalities deem “non-recyclable.”

A Metro Vancouver mayor is pitching a B.C.-wide return-it deposit for cigarette butts — similar to the fees charged for pop cans and beer bottles — as a way to keep the litter from contaminating storm drains and local waterways.

A Metro Vancouver mayor is pitching a B.C.-wide return-it deposit for cigarette butts — similar to the fees charged for pop cans and beer bottles — as a way to keep the litter from contaminating storm drains and local waterways.

A Metro Vancouver mayor is pitching a B.C.-wide return-it deposit for cigarette butts — similar to the fees charged for pop cans and beer bottles — as a way to keep the litter from contaminating storm drains and local waterways.

Henkel is proud to be the first adhesive manufacturer worldwide to provide an affordable, sustainable solution for its anaerobic adhesives packaging — theAdhesive Recycling Program. Participation in this new program allows customers to meet their sustainability goals and recycle certain Loctite adhesive packagingthat were previously non-recyclable.

After successfully recycling 94.6 per cent of waste from last year’s marathon, the event has paired up with Ontario-based upcycling company TerraCycle, a company that has become a global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle waste. They take the waste and transform it back into consumer products ranging from backpacks, lunch bags and park benches, to zirconia pendants and planters.

All the butts collected will be sent into TerraCycle to be recycled into a variety of industrial products, such as plastic pallets. Please join us next year we need all the help we can get to clean up our city, country and planet. Visit www.agreenerfuture.ca to find out what you can do to help!