The cigarette butts will be recycled through TerraCycle, which recycles them into a variety of industrial products, such as park benches. St. Johnsbury and Lyndonville will receive funds from this recycling program to utilize within their own communities.

Hillside Grade School in New Hyde Park won a new garden made from recycled oral care waste through this year's "Save Water Garden" promotion, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive ( "Colgate"), the global oral care leader; ShopRite, which has more than 270 stores in the Northeast; and recycling company TerraCycle.

With the goal of reducing waste, Keep Golden Isles Beautiful’s 2018 School Recycling Challenge did just that. This fall, 11 local schools took part in the challenge to collect non-traditional items for recycling. By collecting items not accepted in local curbside recycling programs, participating schools had an immediate impact on reducing landfill waste. In just two short weeks, students collected more than 155 pounds of oral care products, pens, markers, highlighters and cereal bags — all diverted from the landfill and sent to be recycled at TerraCycle.

The ever-present red plastic cup, an essential part of Ole Miss tailgating since 1848 – probably; I didn’t Google it – are also recycled through Green Grove by a company called Terracycle. Green Grove recycled 5,668 of them this year.

Terracycle Zero Waste Box. These efficient cardboard boxes are an easy way to live a lower waste lifestyle without too much added effort. You simply toss all those hard to recycle items and let Terracycle do all the work for you. The only catch is that they are a little on the pricey side. But what a better gift to give someone who aspires to do better for the environment but isn’t sure where to start. Use code NOVEMBER20 for a discount through the end of the month (or TGIM if you’re catching this on cyber Monday)!  

The efforts involved collaboration with waste management and repurposing company Terracycle, and the groups’ efforts led to a diversion of approximately 31,000 pounds of product optometry-related waste from oceans, lakes, steams and landfills, according to a Bausch + Lomb release.

The New Jersey Tech Council honored three people and 11 companies at its 22nd annual Anniversary Awards celebration Thursday night at the Bridgewater Marriott. One of them, David Sorin, is a managing partner at Newark-based law firm McCarter & English. He is also co-chair of the Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies Practice. Much of Sorin’s practice focuses on emerging growth, middle-market technology and tech-enabled and life science enterprises.

Research with NJ, a free portal that showcases New Jersey’s experts in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), was among projects and industry leaders honored during the New Jersey Technology Council’s(Tech Council’s) Awards Celebration last night. The honorees were recognized for their contributions to the Garden State’s innovation ecosystem.

The problem, of course, is that squeeze packs aren’t easily recyclable—they’re made out of several layers of glued-together plastics and aluminum that cannot be placed in your blue bin. While some companies establish unique partnerships with recycling organizations such as TerraCycle (where users must mail-in their empty squeeze packs to be recycled), adoption rates for these types of programs are historically low. It’s not unreasonable to say that most squeeze packs end up in the landfill