IMPACT Day 1 panelists and speakers included: Debbie Levin (EMA President & CEO), Alan Fuerstman (Founder, Chairman & CEO, Montage International), Angus Mitchell, Catherine Gore, Chris Davenport, David Marguiles, Doug Coleman, Drew FitzGerald, Elena Carretero, Emmanuelle Chiriqui, Eric Garcetti, Fernando Nilo, Genesis Butler, Henry Pino, Jamie Margolin, Jennifer Nickerson, Joey Gonzalez, Kathy Kellogg Johnson, Karla Welch, Karrueche Tran, Kate Wilson, Kendrick Eagle, Kerri Eich, Kristina Buckley, Lance Bass, Mark Gold, Mark Yamauchi, Melissa Magsaysay, Mike Sullivan, Phil Graves, Rob Herring, Robert O’Connor, Shannon Bart, Shara Ticku, Sheila Kuehl, Tom Szaky

 

Photography by David Christopher Lee The Environmental Media Association (EMA) wrapped their 3rd Annual IMPACT Summit at The Montage Beverly Hills. IMPACT is a premier two-day sustainable business summit that focuses on the tremendous potential of a green economy. Panel highlights included “How Does Your Garden Grow”, a conversation about EMA’s School Garden Program, which was moderated by Lance Bass, and “Rise Up!”, which focused on how the youth movement is fighting climate change, moderated by Karrueche Tran. Emmanuelle Chriqui joined the “Our Most Precious Stone” panel, which focused on what the diamond industry is doing to preserve our natural resources. Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti also addressed IMPACT attendees and provided an inside look into LA’s New Green Deal. IMPACT Day 1 panelists and speakers included: Debbie Levin (EMA CEO), Alan Fuerstman (Founder, Chairman & CEO, Montage International), Angus Mitchell, Catherine Gore, Chris Davenport, David Marguiles, Doug Coleman, Drew FitzGerald, Elena Carretero, Emmanuelle Chiriqui, Eric Garcetti, Fernando Nilo, Genesis Butler, Henry Pino, Jamie Margolin, Jennifer Nickerson, Joey Gonzalez, Kathy Kellogg Johnson, Karla Welch, Karrueche Tran, Kate Wilson, Kendrick Eagle, Kerri Eich, Kristina Buckley, Lance Bass, Mark Gold, Mark Yamauchi, Melissa Magsaysay, Mike Sullivan, Phil Graves, Rob Herring, Robert O’Connor, Shannon Bart, Shara Ticku, Sheila Kuehl, Tom Szaky

 

• Clothes: Clothing that’s too worn for donation shouldn’t go in the trash. If it has holes, stains, or other severe damage, you can repurpose it into rags for cleaning the house. But if you just want those old clothes out of your sight, send them to a recycling service like TerraCycle. Goodwill also sends unsold clothes to textile recyclers, so that’s not a terrible home for your damaged items. Just make sure not to donate wet or moldy clothing, which will go straight to the landfill.

The Brigantine Green Team and TerraCycle have partnered by purchasing three “Zero Waste” boxes which will allow our community to recycle specific types of waste. TerraCycle is a company that works with communities, companies or individuals who wish to recycle items that are traditionally nonrecyclable. TerraCycle has recycling solutions for pretty much every type of waste available for purchase.

Consumers can participate by visiting the TerraCycle’s L.O.L. Surprise! page online and clicking submit product. The site will then issue consumers a free shipping label where they can apply to any shipping box filled with L.O.L. Surprise! packaging and products. TerraCycle has made the process fast, easy, and convenient for consumers.

Cigarette butt receptacles will be installed in key areas of Port Washington as part of a recycling program geared towards keeping cigarette butts off the streets and out of waterways, North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and local advocacy group Residents Forward announced Thursday via a press release. The would-be pollution from the cigarette butts will be recycled instead. A team from a local business, Spectrum Designs, will empty the receptacles and transfer the waste to TerraCycle. They will then separate and melt the cigarette butts into hard plastic to be remolded for use in new products.

Hey haters, back off. If your company isn’t serving a customer, then why does it exist? Does that mean every company makes the world a better place? Unless you’re Tesla or TerraCycle, that is probably an overclaim.

Earlier this year, the beloved drugstore hair care brand announced the launch of their Beach Plastic collection, which featured fan-favorite formulas repackaged in upcycled bottles made from ocean plastic. (Little known fact: More often than not, plastic particles from ocean cleanup efforts are sadly, often considered non-recyclable due to levels of dirt and exposure to nature.) To break the vicious cycle, they've joined forces with TerraCycle, a company that specializes in recycling hard-to-recycle waste, to launch a nationwide take-back program to encourage people to recycle their empty bottles in addition to saving an estimated three tons of plastic that would’ve otherwise ended up in the trash — or even worse, on a sandy beachfront.

The school will earn one ‘Playground Credit’ for each unit (“unit” defined as 0.02 lbs of used, post-consumer oral care products and packaging) of oral care waste, such as empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers, sent to TerraCycle for recycling. An additional credit is earned for every online vote cast for the school at www.meijer.com/colgate  or www.terracycle.com/en-US/contests/colgatemeijerplayground2019 by June 30th. The grand prize is a playground made from recycled oral care waste collected through the Colgate® Oral Care Recycling Program, a free, national program operated by Colgate and TerraCycle.

Sponsored by D’Addario and TerraCycle, musicians can bring any old instrument strings for recycling and get their electric or acoustic guitars restrung with D’Addario NYXL or Nickel Bronze Acoustic strings. Old strings collected during the event will be recycled through Playback, D’Addario’s free, national recycling program.