Waste management company TerraCycle’s Zero Waste Box hopes to provide a ‘recycling solution’ for single-use PPE items, such as gloves and face masks. The system will offer individuals, households, schools, businesses, manufacturing facilities and events an opportunity to recycle single-use PPE, material considered ‘non-recyclable’ in traditional recycling systems.

Despite our commitment to sustainable living, domestic recycling is getting worse. Who – or what – is to blame? Although he agreed that England isn’t especially good at recycling, Julien Tremblin, general manager of TerraCycle Europe, which created Loop, was certain, at least. that it’s not going backwards.

TerraCycle, which is known for tackling 'hard-to-recycle' waste, has created a range of Zero Waste Boxes designed to allow food manufacturers to recycle items such as hair nets, earplugs, disposable gloves and safety equipment. These are items that are not collected by councils and waste management companies for recycling so are traditionally destined for landfills or incineration.

Sam Peters and Lesa Snook from Wiltshire collect “hard-to-recycle” items which aren’t accepted by the local council and send them to TerraCycle for recycling. For each item they send, they receive a monetary reward which they can donate to the charity of their choice.

Following an earlier 2022 survey which revealed that only 39% of contact lens (CL) wearers recycled, J&J Vision has partnered with TerraCycle to fund the provision of 3,500 Zero Waste Boxes to partnering opticians.

Wycombe resident Jo Sharp has signed up to various recycling programmes, including the Cathedral City Cheese Packaging Recycling Programme, the pladis (the brand behind McVitie’s and Jacob’s) Biscuits and Snacks Recycling Programme and the Pringles Tubes Recycling Programme, among others, which are offered by TerraCycle.

TerraCycle specialises in providing solutions for hard-to-recycle products, working with a range of partners globally to eliminate the idea of waste. In Scotland alone, the organisation has 355 public drop-off sites across its programmes. Here, Julien Tremblin, general manager of TerraCycle Europe, tells Packaging Scotland about the organisation’s history, greatest achievements to date, and long-term aspirations.

Have you heard about our trial with recycling organisation TerraCycle, allowing our residents to recycle items usually headed for the burgundy waste bin? The trial will last until mid-November and will let residents take new types of waste to the Blackburn and Darwen HWRC’s for the first time ever to be recycled. Biscuit wrappers, Pringles tubes, plastic toothbrushes and coffee bags are included in the items that can be dropped off during the trial period.

THE people of Ilkley are being encouraged to recycle a variety of materials which cannot be recycled by the local council and would otherwise end up in landfills or incineration. Milestone Design Ltd, an Ilkley based kitchen designer and fitter, and the UK’s first producer of totally green Kitchens of Recycled Content, has signed up to several free recycling programmes offered by TerraCycle, the world leaders in recycling hard-to-recycle waste.

Tranquility’s Aromatherapist, Justine DiCesare, has signed the store up to a number of free recycling programmes offered by TerraCycle, the world leader in recycling hard-to-recycle waste. These include the Pladis Biscuits and Snacks Recycling Programme, the Garnier Personal Care and Beauty Recycling Programme and the Air, Home and Laundry Care Recycling Programme.