The students of St Josephs's Catholic School in Matamata want your oral care waste.
The school is collecting oral care waste as part of the Colgate Community Recycle Drive competition. The competition is in partnership between Colgate and TerraCycle.
Just by submitting a collection of oral care waste, the school can go into the draw to win one of 20, $1000 cash prizes or one of two recycled park benches, valued at $1500 and made entirely of oral care waste.
TerraCycle recycles and upcycles waste instead of incinerating it or adding to landfill. They also provide "waste" with a new life, creating usable new products out of items that would have been thrown out, such as the park benches made from oral care waste.
It offers free recycling programmes, including the Oral care Recycling Programme, funded by brands, manufacturers, and retailers around the world to help people collect and recycle hard-to-recycle waste.
Colgate has launched the second edition of the Colgate Community Recycle Drive. New Zealanders can now save used oral care items from landfill and join a nationwide competition to help raise funds for a local school, club or community group.
Colgate has launched the second edition of the Colgate Community Recycle Drive.
New Zealanders can now save used oral care items from landfill and join nationwide competition to help raise funds for a local school, club or community group.
Schools across the Christchurch district are being hit up for used toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, floss containers and packaging which could wind up as arty benches in the local park.
Already 13 local schools, two pre-schools and two Scout groups are collecting oral care product waste for free shipment to Sydney in the innovative TerraCycle initiative which has been running for two years.
On Friday July 1, TerraCycle's founder and CEO, Tom Szaky, appeared on Breakfast in New Zealand. Scroll to 13:00 to see the interview.
The Environment:
Once the kids have refuelled with
Anchor Uno, they can recycle or reuse the packaging. Thanks to
TerraCycle, New Zealanders are able to collect and recycle their
Anchor Uno yoghurt pouches returning them free of charge to
TerraCycle who will upcycle the pouches into children's pencil cases and carry bags or recycle the pouches in to new products such as chairs and park benches. Returned pouches raise
TerraCycle points which convert to dollars to be gifted to your local school, charity or community group. Visit
Terracycle for more information about how to return your yoghurt pouches for free!
Locals can now keep used oral care products from landfills while having a chance to win prizes and help raise funds for a local school, club or community group.
The Colgate Community Recycle Drive has been launched for the second year to encourage recycling of oral care items including toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, dental floss containers and any non-recyclable packaging.
The second annual Colgate Community Recycle Drive has been launched to encourage the recycling of oral care waste, including toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, dental floss containers and any non-recyclable packaging.
Toothbrushes can have more than one purpose than just cleaning your teeth. Old toothbrushes are being turned into park benches, watering cans and rubbish bins in a new initiative to save them from ending up in landfill.
