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NEWS: The Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust at Turnbridge Mill on Quay Street, Huddersfield, has signed up as one of the UK’s first public collection points for the Tassimo Brigade® to enable people to recycle their Tassimo coffee machine T-DISCS and outer foil packaging. The collection box at the Trust will be available from Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm. Sarah-Jane Ainley from the Trust who will administrate the collections for the Huddersfield Tassimo Brigade® location said: "Two TerraCycle points are earned for the weight of each piece of Tassimo waste that we send in for recycling, with each point being redeemable for a one penny contribution. "All the money raised will be used to help fund the Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust."

KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* has launched a pioneering initiative across EMEA that enables cleanroom and laboratory operators to recycle a wide range of used protective garments. This follows a successful launch in the United States earlier this year. The programme, called RightCycle, makes it easy to dispose of previously hard-to-recycle garments such as coveralls, gloves, hoods, boot covers and hairnets in a sustainable manner. The used items are simply placed in a RightCycle collection box or the operator's own box. Full boxes are assembled onto pallets and collected by KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* programme partner TerraCycle. Launched initially in the UK and Germany as a one-year pilot scheme, RightCycle is the first large-scale recycling solution for this kind of waste, offering companies an opportunity to reduce landfill waste streams and enhance their sustainability efforts. After the used garments are collected, they are turned into raw materials to create eco-friendly consumer products such as plastic chairs. Ruud Sleumer, Customer Marketing Manager at KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL*, commented: "Our cleanroom and laboratory customers have ambitious sustainability goals, yet often struggle with where and how to get started. Our innovative RightCycle programme offers a powerful and easy way for them to exceed their solid waste reduction goals, while helping to make their workplaces healthier, safer and more productive." The RightCycle programme supports the 'Planet' pillar of the three-pronged Kimberly-Clark Corporation Sustainability 2015 vision, which also encompasses 'People' and 'Products'. The Sustainability 2015 strategy engages Kimberly-Clark businesses, brands and employees globally. Under each of the three pillars, the company is working towards meeting a range of demanding targets that will make a major difference to the sustainability of its operations and, potentially, affect millions of people's lives for the better. Sustainability 2015 builds on the success of previous KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* environmental improvement programmes – such as the Vision 2010 initiative, under which the company implemented a number of successful projects worldwide to improve its performance in key environmental areas. It also widens the focus and scope of the company's sustainability agenda to integrate elements that sustain and nurture healthy working environments and communities. Ruud Sleumer said: "The disposal of solid waste by pharmaceutical and other scientific organisations poses considerable challenges for businesses and society. Landfill options are becoming more limited and waste disposal costs continue to rise. The RightCycle programme takes recycling to a new level – beyond downcycling, upcycling and other approaches – by making it easy to recycle pharmaceutical cleanroom and laboratory garments that used to be very difficult to dispose of sustainably." He continued: "This new recycling programme, operated with our partner TerraCycle, further extends the KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* commitment to offering our customers sustainability initiatives which save time, materials and ultimately money. This new capacity to recycle cleanroom gloves and coveralls also importantly helps our customers' employees stay motivated to reach their CSR goals." Chris Baker, General Manager for TerraCycle Europe, added: "TerraCycle is delighted to partner with industry leader KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* to launch this new, first-of-its-kind recycling solution for non-traditional cleanroom waste. Providing end-of-life solutions for previously difficult-to-recycle items from cleanrooms is an exciting new venture and could have massive industry-wide impact." KIMBERLY-CLARK PROFESSIONAL* customers can register their interest in taking part in the RightCycle programme by completing the form at www.terracycle.co.uk/gloves or www.terracycle.co.uk/garments.

A north Northumberland first school has proved it’s not rubbish by winning a nationwide recycling competition.   Wooler First School took the title in the nationwide McVitie’s Biscuit Wrapper Roundup contest, winning the £250 top prize and a prize hamper thanks to the support of local people. A staggering 7,800 used biscuit wrappers were collected by the school’s network of collectors and the wider local community during the six-month contest, which ended in October. Wooler First School beat off strong competition from participating locations all over the UK including runners-up, the Women’s Aid Charity in Grimsby, and the third-placed Preemies UK children’s charity in Droitwich. Dave Sage, the scheme administrator at school, said: “Wooler First School is delighted to have won the Biscuit Wrapper Roundup and would like to say a huge thank-you to everyone locally who helped by saving their biscuit wrappers for us, especially to the Blood Donor Centre in Newcastle, Roddam WI and other community groups. “Since we began collecting various types of waste packaging with TerraCycle a year ago, we have saved an incredible 32,435 pieces of waste from local landfill, raising £1,333, which the school is using to buy additional classroom resources and forest-school equipment. “This is only the beginning though, as we are collecting various types of waste with TerraCycle on an ongoing basis. “Any local people wishing to help can simply drop their used biscuit wrappers, pens, baby-food pouches, baby-wipes packaging and coffee packaging of any brand and Activia, Actimel and Shape yogurt pots back to our 24/7 access outdoor collection point at the Cheviot Centre on Padgepool Place and we will happily send them in as part of our recycling collections.”

Kimberly-Clark Professional is embarking on worldwide programme to recycle single-use cleanroom and laboratory gloves. Kimberly-Clark has teamed up with TerraCycle to recover the material and claims is the first large-scale recycling solution for this type of waste, offering companies an opportunity to reduce landfill waste streams and enhance their sustainability efforts. After the used garments are collected, they are turned into raw materials to create eco-friendly consumer products such as plastic chairs. Commenting on the scheme, Kimberly-Clark customer marketing manager Ruud Sleumer said: "Our cleanroom and laboratory customers have ambitious sustainability goals, yet often struggle with where and how to get started. "Our programme offers a powerful and easy way for them to exceed their solid waste reduction goals, while helping to make their workplaces healthier, safer and more productive." He further pointed out that the disposal of solid waste by pharmaceutical and other scientific organisations often poses considerable challenges, as landfill options become more Ltd and waste disposal costs continue to rise.

Wooler First School has won the McVitie’s Biscuit Wrapper Roundup recycling contest, winning the £250 top prize and a prize hamper.    ...