When I was in Brussels at the
Paradise City festival, a small local nonprofit showed me a block of acetate that had been created from recycling old cigarette butts – it looked a lot like the material in tortoiseshell glasses, actually. If you for some reason have a lot of old broken acetate frames to dispose of (maybe you’re a sunglasses company that wants to do a take-back program?) I would contact Terracycle and ask if they could add them to their
cigarette butt recycling stream. Hopefully someday there will be recycling or a take-back system in place.
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Before you do anything, investigate which material streams are accepted by your local waste and recycling providers. You might be surprised to learn that many areas to do not accept glass containers or plastic film, such as grocery bags and shrink wrap, in single-stream recycling bins. And remember, it’s about more than recycling: Ask your provider or municipality about other material collection options, such as organics (food waste), electronics, and hazardous waste.
Consider adding
TerraCycle Zero Waste Boxes for hard-to-recycle materials like chip bags and coffee pods. You may also want to offer bins for items to donate, such as books, art supplies, and clothing.
Middlebury Elementary School has been named one of five winners through this year's Entenmann's® Little Bites®: I <3 (Heart) Recycling photo submission sweepstakes, in partnership with recycling pioneer, TerraCycle®. As a winner of the contest, they will receive 12 boxes of Entenmann's Little Bites product and 40 upcycled Entenmann's Little Bites pencil cases made from Little Bites packaging.
While there you can try out the new Immortelle Overnight Reset Oil-in-Serum, or even bring in your empty, hard-to-recycle beauty products for Terracycle and get 10 percent off a full-sized L’Occitane product for that day.
August 2018 – TerraCycle has created sharp containers and shipping cartons systems which are puncture-resistant and are approved by UPS and the US Postal Service. This new addition to Terracycle’s offerings provide as an alternative to incineration and provide contaminant exposure protection and high-efficiency material recovery.
By Kacie Goode
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at 12:48 pm
Cigarette butts litter the alley by 3rd Street Tap House, feet from one of six new cigarette receptacles that have been installed in downtown Bardstown. It’s an upsetting sight for those who care about community upkeep, which is why the people responsible for the new ashtrays hope more will make an effort to use them.
“There are a lot of cigarette butts at the base of them; all around them,” said Jayme Haslam, a local resident and member of the design committee for the Bardstown Main Street Program, who pushed for the receptacles.
The idea for the ashtrays came to her last year. When Haslam would walk through downtown, she would often run into Judge-Executive Dean Watts, and the two would commiserate about the trash and cigarette butts plaguing the ground of Third Street.
“Cigarette butts downtown and all over are just horrible,” and have been for years, Watts said, with hundreds being collected around his Court Square office alone. “There is a choice between throwing them down on the ground and putting them somewhere to be disposed of properly.”
Haslam wanted to find a way to help reduce the eyesore downtown and started looking at different companies that offered ashtrays. During a visit to Grand Rapids, Mich., she saw several small cigarette disposal cans attached to posts along sidewalks. She brought the idea to Watts, who agreed his office could pay for some receptacles to help keep downtown cleaner. After having the idea approved by other downtown officials, six ashtrays were installed.
While Court Square and Third Street are in the city limits and Watts oversees the county, he said locations such as the Old Courthouse Building and the Sutherland Building off Stephen Foster are county-owned properties, and “Being part of downtown is important.”
The six ashtrays are connected to lampposts near areas where people congregate the most, such as restaurants and bars, and where Haslam and Watts have seen the most trash. Locations include near 3rd Street Tap House, Café Primo, Alexander Bullitt’s Brewery and BBQ, JT’s Consignments on the second block of North Third, in front of Mammy’s Kitchen and one near the Fine Arts Bardstown Society building.
The canisters have been up for about a month, Haslam said, but they are not being used as much as she would like to see and she hopes that will change.
In addition to offering a place to dispose of cigarettes, Haslam is also working with a company called TerraCycle that allows her to send in the waste from the ashtrays to be recycled into compost and other materials. There is also a “doggie waste” bag dispenser that has been installed near the FABS building to encourage owners to clean up after their pets, which has been another problem affecting downtown upkeep.
Frank D. Paulo Intermediate School (I.S. 75) was named one of five winners in a recycling competition.
The Huguenot school was a winner in this year's Entenmann's Little Bites: I <3 (Heart) Recycling photo submission sweepstakes, in partnership with TerraCycle -- an international recycling company.
Nearly 30 pounds of old crayons from all over the country land on Kim Martonosi’s doorstep every day. With the help of her kids, she sorts the worn and broken wax sticks by color, melts the bins of blue-greys and light greens and pinks down to a gooey swirl, and shapes the new creations into stars and earthworms and simple sticks. Over the past 25 years, Martonosi’s business, Crazy Crayons, has salvaged just over 120,000 pounds of colorful wax, the equivalent of about 12 million new coloring tools.