Children at Rainbow Cottage preschool in Whangamata are diverting non-recyclable yoghurt pouches and toothbrushes from landfill. Once the yoghurt pouch and oral care waste is collected, Rainbow Cottage packs and sends them to TerraCycle, who shreds, cleans and melts them down into raw materials to create garden beds, park benches and playgrounds.
Kiwi kids and students have the chance to win a recycled community garden set by diverting tens of thousands of oral care products from landfill, thanks to a recycling competition run by Colgate and TerraCycle. Between 1 August and 16 November 2018, the
Colgate Community Garden Challenge invites pre-, primary and secondary schools nationwide to collect all brands of oral care waste and send it to TerraCycle, who will give the waste a second life by creating new products.
The kids at Rainbow Cottage preschool in Whangamata are diverting non-recyclable yoghurt pouches from landfill on behalf of the community as part of a recycling programme operated by Fonterra. In doing so, the preschool has the chance to win a pack of lunch bags and pencil cases made from upcycled yoghurt pouches, in a national recycling competition called the Fonterra Snap, Recycle & Win competition.
TerraCycle specialises in converting traditionally non-recyclable waste such as cigarette butts, coffee capsules and cosmetic packaging into new products, including playgrounds and garden beds. Their Colgate Community Garden Challenge with New Zealand schools aims to divert tens of thousands of toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes from the landfill.
TerraCycle is a global recycling company that turns non-recyclable waste into sustainable raw materials. The CEO and founder of TerraCycle, Tom Szaky, talks the challenges and opportunities in the circular economy, and how the company is going in New Zealand.
A Kaipara wellness centre is helping to raise awareness about sustainability and inspire locals to help reduce landfill.
You're never too young to save the environment. That's a lesson the children at Wellington's Capital City Preschool are learning well, as they save kilograms of plastic yoghurt pouches from heading to the landfill as part of a national recycling programme.
Whenukite Country Kids childcare centre has recently joined a new recycling initiative. The initiative is being driven by TerraCycle, an international company that has become a world leader in recycling hard-to-recycle materials.
Elizabeth Keen from Terracycle joined Maggie on the Breakfast show from Sydney to discuss world compost week. Terracycle was a company that started with liquefied worm poo and now spans a recycling project across 21 countries.
Coffee capsules are being diverted from being dumped in North Canterbury. Community Wellbeing North Canterbury Trust is recycling coffee capsules on behalf of the community.
