America’s Most Pet Friendly Companies of 2018:   10. TerraCycle (Trenton, NJ)

The Natural Resources Commission is partnering with the Department of Public Works on a zero waste solution for old pens, pencils, and markers. Throw items into the specially-marked TerraCycle recycling box in the Town Hall Lobby and in the Library Children’s Room. The collection will continue until the boxes are full. TerraCycle will separate the components, smelting the metal and molding the plastic into new plastic products.

Bring some of your Hard to Recycle items – stuff that never goes in the blue bin – to our next Recycling Extravaganza on June 30th at Bishop DuBourg High School from 9-11 am. This recycling event will have the flavor of our annual Recycling Extravaganza held every April, but will be smaller and will focus on electronics, paper shredding, car seats, cell phones, Terracycle items, and clothing.

TerraCycle is an innovative recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle waste. Wellness Natural Pet Food is the first U.S.-based pet food brand to make its packaging nationally recyclable through a partnership with TerraCycle. So far, the partnership has resulted in 80,000 pet food bags diverted from landfills.  That said here are some great tips on planting a pet friendly garden this summer.

Los Altos is partnering with a New Jersey-based company to transform the waste that comes along with used cigarettes into park benches, plastic chairs and other useful products... Los Altos is first encouraging smokers to toss their cigarettes into any of the 12 receptacles that were recently installed in 10 city-owned parking lots throughout downtown. Once those receptacles are full, the cigarette butts will be shipped to TerraCycle.

TerraCycle is an innovative recycling company that has become a global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle waste. Wellness Natural Pet Food is the first U.S.-based pet food brand to make its packaging nationally recyclable through a partnership with TerraCycle. So far, the partnership has resulted in 80,000 pet food bags diverted from landfills.

This year’s Halo Award-winning campaigns were: Environmental Category GOLD: Planting Seeds for Haiti’s Future: Timberland & Smallholder Farmers Alliance SILVER: Rinse, Recycle, Repeat: Garnier, TerraCycle & DoSomething.org Nudging For Good (Sponsored by PRS IN VIVO) GOLD: Nudging for Good: Ammunition & UNICEF Kid Power SILVER: Rinse, Recycle, Repeat: Garnier, TerraCycle & DoSomething.org  

Consumers demand an ethical stance from beauty brands, and the latest focus is on product packaging... Garnier teamed up with DoSomething.org and TerraCycle to raise awareness on beauty product recycling.

"We partner with TerraCycle. Customers can request an envelope, for free, and they can send all their pouches to TerraCycle, where they get upcycled into other products. They could be made into building structures or chairs or toothbrushes. We are always actively working on ways to be more sustainable. Having the first 100 percent recyclable or compostable pouch—we’re still evaluating the available options—is something we’re in conversations on."

Tybee Clean Beach Volunteers is an organization made up of compassionate individuals who walk the beach in search of litter on a regular basis... Tybee Clean Beach Volunteers also recycle most of what they recover, either through municipal recycling or, for hard to recycle items such as cigarettes, straws, bottle caps, bits of broken plastic, and snack wrappers, with their partner Terracycle.