PORT ROWAN - Port Rowan Public School is doing their part to keep unnecessary waste out of landfills.
The school was recently recognized by TerraCycle Canada in a list of the Top 10 waste-collecting schools. The 300-student community placed sixth.
“We are so excited to hear the news that Port Rowan Public School has placed sixth for top collections,” said educational assistant Kathy Kingsley in a media release. “ I like that the TerraCycle program brings the student body, staff and community together to do better for the earth. It’s a win-win for all involved.”
A Barrie Catholic school has ranked high in a Canadian waste diversion contest.
St. Bernadette School placed eighth of the top 10 waste-collecting schools in the TerraCycle Canada waste collection program.
The school's efforts of collecting drink pouches, sandwich bags and personal care/beauty product packaging diverted 6.273 units of waste from landfills from September 2011 to February 2012.
L'école de la Source de Lavaltrie a terminé première de la Course aux déchets d'hiver. Ce concours organisé par TerraCycle Canada récompense les équipes ayant collecté le plus de déchets pour TerraCycle sur une période de 2 mois à travers tout le Canada.
Students at Barkers Point Elementary School are cashing in trash for treasure.
The students in grades 2-5 participated in TerraCycle Canada's recent Trash to Cash contest and managed to collect 5,396 sandwich bags and containers.
Students at Meadowview Public School in Addison have earned a little green to help make their school grounds a little greener.
Members of Meadowview's EcoSchools Team have been recognized by TerraCycle Canada as a winner of the company's 2012 Winter Trash to Cash contest.
A Toronto-area recycling initiative aims to put some of the sweet back into used candy wrappers.
Cineplex Entertainment and TerraCycle Canada have a pilot project to collect used snack packaging at five of the movie chain's biggest theatres in the GTA.
Garnier is the latest in a long list of beauty companies going green by developing a new program for recycling empty beauty product containers. The popular hair care company has partnered with TerraCycle to allow Canadians to recycle and donate to their favourite charity through the new Personal Care And Beauty Brigade.
They’ve done it again! Queen Elizabeth School’s Knights of the Green Table Eco Club has taken the second runner-up prize in TerraCycle Canada’s recent Winter Trash to Cash waste collection contest, which recognizes the top collectors of TerraCycle’s numerous waste streams from across Canada during a two-month period.
The packaging landscape has been “greened” the past years by consumer packaged goods companies (CPGCs) making sustainability improvements, initiative by initiative and packaged product by packaged product. These changes have been made for a number of reasons including meeting internal goals, meeting external expectations and/or cutting costs.
The packaging landscape has been “greened” the past years by consumer packaged goods companies (CPGCs) making sustainability improvements, initiative by initiative and packaged product by packaged product. These changes have been made for a number of reasons including meeting internal goals, meeting external expectations and/or cutting costs.
