Few certainties come with starting and scaling a business. But there are two that you can almost always count on: Money is the lifeblood of growth, and we rarely have enough of it.

Winston-Salem State University’s community garden will get a facelift after a student saved more than 5,000 beauty products from the landfill. Senior Miranda Legg was awarded a $30,000 grant to revamp the university’s Simon’s Green Acre Community Garden at the Enterprise Center after she won a national competition for her recycling efforts.

Eos Products, known for its lip balms, shave creams and hand and body lotions, has partnered with TerraCycle, a global leader in recycling complex materials. TerraCycle gives eos a platform for North American consumers to have their eos products recycled into durable materials, such as park benches, picnic tables and bike racks.

Eos Products, known for its lip balms, shave creams and hand and body lotions, has partnered with TerraCycle, a global leader in recycling complex materials. TerraCycle gives eos a platform for North American consumers to have their eos products recycled into durable materials, such as park benches, picnic tables and bike racks.

Small Bites, Big Collections Contest with TerraCycle Already a month into the contest, TerraCycle and Entenmann’s® Little Bites® have teamed up for the “Small Bites, Big Collections” contest where a grand prize winner will be awarded 50 boxes of Little Bites, four custom collection bins, $500 in TerraCycle points and more! More information about the contest can be found here and ends December 31st, 2018.

What is your daily beauty routine? Take a second to think about what products you use for your hair and skin. What brands? Is the packaging recyclable? What are the ingredients? Something we rarely consider are the ingredients that make up our beauty products. Which is ironic, because that ultimately determines if the product works or not. Some household name brands are made up of harmful chemicals that do the opposite of their intention. Over time, these cosmetics can actually cause damage to our skin and hair. It's a good thing that there are green alternatives to these products conveniently available to us. All we have to do is become conscious of our purchases and what we incorporate into our daily beauty routines!

Bethesda Elementary School, located in Waukehsa, Wisconsin won a recycled playground made from oral care waste through this year’s “Recycled Playground Challenge,” courtesy of Colgate- Palmolive, Meijer and TerraCycle. The school earned a total of 28,959 Playground Credits, by recycling waste and via online voting, to win the challenge. The playground, which will be built using recycled oral care waste collected through the Colgate® Oral Care Recycling Program, will be unveiled at a ceremony scheduled for Friday, September 21, at 2 pm at Bethesda Elementary School, which is located at 730 South University Drive in Waukehsa, Wisconsin.

When giving talks to college students at different universities, I find that most students are looking to align their lives with a cause greater than themselves.  Among these, many could not be more enthusiastic about playing a role in global poverty alleviation. Enthusiasm isn’t the problem. The problem is what role. Particularly for young adults who are making challenging vocational decisions, the maze of options and opportunities today can become paralyzing.  In response, I have developed some vocational bins in the larger space of international development and poverty work that represents a condensed excerpt from a chapter in my forthcoming 2019 book, Shrewd Samaritan.  Each, if engaged with head and heart, represent important and legitimate roles that individuals can play in the larger effort of helping people to flourish and live with dignity across our planet. These roles I call (a) investigators, (b) givers, (c) advocates, (d) creators, (e) directors, and (f) practitioners.

This special report will argue that waste generation is increasing too fast and needs to be decoupled from economic growth and rising living standards. That will require people to throw away less and reuse more—to make economies more “circular”, as campaigners say. This can only happen if people “equate the circular economy with making money”, claims Tom Szaky of Terracycle, which develops technologies to use hard-to-recycle materials. “Take, make, dispose” must now shift to “reduce, reuse, recycle”, he says.  

Ironically, as Washington DC wallows in its own filth on Capitol Hill, Cleaning Products US is taking place right down the road in Arlington, VA this week. Cleaning Products USA, a three-day conference devoted to the latest trends and issues surrounding the detergent and home cleaning industry. The Conference will include presentations from experts at Clorox, P&G, Unilever and others.