TerraCycle is part of New Zealand’s disruptive circular economy and it’s taken charge of recycling the waste that other agencies deem unsavoury or difficult to recycle or that can’t be disposed of through local council municipal bins.

Milk processor Fonterra Brands New Zealand (FBNZ) has partnered with TerraCycle to launch a recycling program for yoghurt pouches — a packaging product that would previously have gone to landfill.

Two years since launching Australia, waste sector social enterprise TerraCycle’s business is booming, with around 70,000 people subscribed as collectors, and a number of major city councils and some of the region’s biggest firms now taking part in programs that aim to recycle “unrecyclable” waste streams.

Recycling company TerraCycle (Trenton, NJ) and Fonterra Brands New Zealand (FBNZ) have partnered to create the Fonterra Pouch Brigade, which is a free recycling program for Anchor Uno pouches or any other yogurt pouches. New Zealanders are now able to collect yogurt pouches and send them directly to TerraCycle, at no cost, where they will be upcycled into children’s pencil cases, or recycled into new products such as chairs and park benches.

Fonterra Brands New Zealand (FBNZ) has introduced a recycling drive through which people in the country can collect yogurt pouches and send them to recycling firm TerraCycle.

Fonterra Brands New Zealand (FBNZ) is launching New Zealand’s first recycling program for yogurt pouches.

Milk processor Fonterra Brands New Zealand (FBNZ) has partnered with TerraCycle in the launch of a recycling program for yoghurt pouches — a packaging product that would previously have gone to landfill.

Fonterra has partnered with recycling firm TerraCycle to launch New Zealand's first recycling programme for yogurt pouches.

Fonterra Brands New Zealand has taken the initiative to recycle yoghurt pouches and make them into useful products.

Locals can now help to save used oral care items from ending up in landfill whilst also helping to raise funds for Midhirst School. Students in the Paritutu class at the school are in charge of running the Colgate Community Recycle Drive at the school, aimed at promoting the recycling of previously unrecyclable oral care items, including toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, dental floss containers and packaging. The drive, supported by international upcycling and recycling comapny TerraCycle, was launched at the school last week.