Over 200 schools across the country are participating in a nationwide recycling programme run by innovative recycling company TerraCycle to save wrappers from landfill and fundraise towards a local project. TerraCycle’s national programmes repurpose non-recyclable waste materials through volunteer “Brigades.”
Do you save your chocolate wrappers and toothpaste cartons? Or do they go straight in the bin? TerraCycle is teaming up with more than 200 Kiwi schools to do something productive with household waste.
More than 200 New Zealand schools are taking part in a recycling programme instigated by TerraCycle.
Wondering what to do with your chocolate wrappers left over from Easter?
Westbrook School is participating in a nationwide programme collecting confectionery wrappers and recycling them to help the environment and raise money for school projects.
Kiwis will soon be able to recycle toothbrushes and coffee capsules thanks to the local expansion of global trash-to-treasure company TerraCycle
The "Google of Garbage' is in the country, hoping to transform the way we recycle.
Tom Szaky started up TerraCycle, a worldwide waste programme which aims to recycle non-recyclable items including toothbrushes, cleaning products and even cigarettes.
While no one has an exact figure of how much waste we generate as a planet, the figure is in the billions of tonnes. Many organisations and businesses are now focusing on diverting rubbish from landfills, giving waste a new lease of life.
Pebbles and Jaffas rattling in boxes are now nothing more than a memory. And the machine that once filled the cardboard packets has been consigned to the scrapyard.
New Jersey-based TerraCycle's mission is to “eliminate the idea of waste” and it's been a profitable enterprise. The company expects about $20 million in revenue this year, according to founder Tom Szaky.
New Jersey-based TerraCycle, which collects non-recyclable, or difficult-to-recycle, waste, has partnered with major corporation Mondelez International, which owns Cadbury, to launch a recycling waste campaign on the Asian market.
A fast-growing global company which salvages non-recyclable waste items and turns them into new products is about to be launched in New Zealand.
TerraCycle, which was founded in 2001 and operates in 23 countries, will kick off in New Zealand today.
The business works with major brands to sponsor free collection programmes for rubbish such as cigarette butts, dirty nappies and chewing gum, which would otherwise end up in landfill.
A fast-growing global company which salvages non-recyclable waste items and turns them into new products is about to be launched in New Zealand.
TerraCycle, which was founded in 2001 and operates in 23 countries, will kick off in New Zealand today.
The business works with major brands around the world to sponsor free collection programmes for rubbish such as cigarette butts, dirty nappies and chewing gum, which would otherwise end up in landfill.
Its New Zealand arm will focus on gathering confectionery wrappers by getting members of the public to send them to collection points by freepost.
For every wrapper returned, TerraCycle will donate 2c to the school or charity of the collector's choice.
Founder and chief executive Tom Szaky said launching TerraCycle in New Zealand was the first step in an aggressive expansion into the Asian region.
"New Zealand makes a lot of sense because the people have a deep care for the environment. It's somewhere we can build a good base from and then expand into other markets from there."
TerraCycle has partnered with Cadbury owner Mondelez, which is funding the local platform for collecting lolly wrappers from the public. Waste will be stored in a factory until there is enough to be sent on for cleaning and recycling into new products.
TerraCycle provides the infrastructure but owns none of the manufacturing equipment.
Mr Szaky, who is considered a world leader in eco-capitalism, said his sights were set on finding new partners in New Zealand who would take ownership of the different types of waste they produced.
The 31-year old is visiting New Zealand next week and wants to spend his time meeting potential partners, including one in the tobacco industry
"Our goal is to grow this programme to collect even more waste. It just gets bigger and bigger every year."
TerraCycle typically works with 20 to 30 partners in each country. Brands that have signed up globally include Kraft Foods, Nestle, Mars and L'Oreal.
