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Recycle Your Toothbrush Fundraiser

TRENTON, NJ —TerraCycle® recently announced a national recycling initiative with Colgate-Palmolive (“Colgate”), CVS® and the Starlight Children’s Foundation that calls upon CVS customers to recycle their used toothbrushes, empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers to help win a playground for a children’s hospital.

Pleasanton, Recycle Toothbrushes To Help Sick Kids

The drug-store chain, which has locations throughout Tri-Valley, is partnering with the waste management company TerraCycle, Starlight Children's Foundation and Colgate-Palmolive in the nationwide recycling effort. The state that collects the most waste will win a new playground, made from recycled oral waste, at a Starlight Children's Foundation member hospital.

San Ramon, Recycle Toothbrushes To Help Sick Kids

The drug-store chain, which has locations throughout Tri-Valley, is partnering with the waste management company TerraCycle, Starlight Children's Foundation and Colgate-Palmolive in the nationwide recycling effort. The state that collects the most waste will win a new playground, made from recycled oral waste, at a Starlight Children's Foundation member hospital.

Danville, Recycle Toothbrushes To Help Sick Kids

The drug-store chain, which has locations throughout Tri-Valley and East Bay, is partnering with the waste management company TerraCycle, Starlight Children's Foundation and Colgate-Palmolive in the nationwide recycling effort. The state that collects the most waste will win a new playground, made from recycled oral waste, at a Starlight Children's Foundation member hospital.

Local organization boosts Wrightsville Beach, county cigarette butt recycling efforts

In searching for a recycling company that can handle cigarette butts, Brightman found New Jersey-based Terracycle, which offered what he described as an innovative mission to eliminate waste. Terracycle partners with leading consumer companies, retailers, and cities to recycle products and packages, from dirty diapers to cigarette butts, that would otherwise end up in landfills

PORT WASHINGTON

Germain said Friday that the cigarette butts will be collected every seven days from the receptacles and sent to TerraCycle, a Trenton, New Jersey-based recycling company that will use them to make new products like benches and tables. "It's the first municipal cigarette recycling program on Long Island," Germain said as she stood next to a receptacle recently installed at a Port Washington bus stop.

MCM: MEET SHANE WOLF, FOUNDER OF SEED PHYTONUTRIENTS

At the same time, I learned consumers are twice as likely to recycle in the kitchen as opposed to the bathroom. Knowing this, our idea was to put an heirloom seed packet inside the bottle to encourage consumers to interact with the product, break open the bottle to get the seeds and consciously think about what to do with each component; the paper and plastic go in their respective recycling bins and the pump can be sent to TerraCycle free of charge.