Bellview Public School has won a nationwide household recycling competition.  The school in Eagle Place won $200 for the school and $100 to give to charity as part of the Febreze Frenzy recycling contest run by Febreze and TereCycle.  Bellview School recycled more than 1,000 pieces of traditionally non-recyclable air and home care packaging waste, such as trigger heads from spray bottles.  The school will receive $200 in points, redeemable for cash payment to an organization or school of choice.  The school then won an extra $100 for charity as one of three collectors randomly selected through the promotion.  Febreze Frenzy was offered in March for people, schools, and businesses throughout Canada who were already participating in the Air and Home Care Recycling Program, which is a free recycling program operated by Febreze and TerraCycle.

This month the Canadian waste and recycling management services company announced an e-commerce partnership with TerraCycle. It’s an effort meant to divert more cosmetics and personal care waste from landfills and incineration. Making the boxes and recycling service available online should mean that RecycleSmart can reach and serve more customers and divert more waste in the process. “We are ecstatic to begin a partnership with RecycleSmart since both organizations share a common mission of increasing waste diversion and offering additional recycling options in Canada,” Sunil Kaushik, senior manager of TerraCycle Canada, tells the press. “Through RecycleSmart’s website, businesses and individuals can now purchase Zero Waste Boxes to recycle many items previously deemed non-recyclable, from coffee capsules to safety equipment.”  

A number of Oshawa residents showed how much they “love their lake” by cleaning up litter in Lakeview Park earlier this month. The cleanups were part of non-profit A Greener Future’s Love Your Lake program, which takes place in more than 100 locations along Lake Ontario. Love Your Lake sees volunteers collecting litter in a designated area in their community. “Families bring their children out, we also have some seniors as well,” Rochelle Archibald, A Greener Future executive director says. “In general, it’s just people who want to get outside and take care of their community.”

RICHMOND, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RecycleSmart, a leading provider of waste and recycling management services, today announced its partnership with TerraCycle in launching an online store that offers TerraCycle’s Zero Waste Boxes. The e-commerce site is an extension of RecycleSmart’s existing services. It also offers other waste management related products like recycling bags and bins.

 

  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?