A project to collect discarded cigarette butts from downtown city streets has reached the two-year mark and it has been a big success. Downtown Grand Rapids Inc., the group that helps manage what goes on downtown, installed 20 cigarette butt recycling urns about two years ago. Nicole Hills and Veronica Kuhl assumed they were doing what everyone should do when they used one of several urns located on Monroe Center Street.“Don't be an ugly American, clean up after yourself,” Kuhl said. “I don't throw trash out my car. You know, clean up after yourself.” Butts are collected from the urns every day, bagged up and sent to TerraCycle, a New Jersey firm that collects and then separates the butts.

Meet TerraCycle. This is the company taking the materials that no one else wants to deal with and actually recycling them. If it's difficult to recycle, TerraCycle wants it. They have creatively harnessed the potential of these otherwise landfill-destined items through tailored, industry-sponsored recycling programs. These programs are now more accessible than ever and have in a short time taken out some pretty massive shovel-loads out of a mountain of trash.

Last year, in our three large New York offices alone (731 Lex, 120 Park, and 919 3rd ave), we discarded a staggering 17.5 million snack wrappers. Since 2013, Bloomberg has partnered with TerraCycle to collect hard-to-recycle packaging in an effort to reduce the amount of waste being sent to landfills.

Twinlab, a leader for health and wellness products, is giving consumers a free way to recycle all brands of supplement and vitamin packaging. Through Twinlab’s Supplement the Earth Recycling Program, managed by international recycling company TerraCycle, consumers can now send in all brands of empty supplement and vitamin packages for processing, to be repurposed and used again.

New York–based supplement company Twinlab has teamed up with recycling group TerraCycle to create a program to allow people to recycle any previously landfill-bound supplement bottles so they can be used to make new products. This could set the stage for similar innovation throughout the supplement industry (Waste360)

Twinlab, the Hauppauge, N.Y.-based producer of health and wellness products, has announced a national recycling program in which all brands of supplement and vitamin packaging can be recycled and repurposed. The program, called the Supplement the Earth Recycling Program, is managed by TerraCycle.

John Wanless Junior Public School has revisited an old ally, recycling company TerraCycle, in its pursuit of being eco-friendly. In December, the Bedford Park school restarted its Snack Pouch, Schneider Lunch Mate and Yves Veggie Cuisine recycling program. At the helm is Grade 6 teacher Lisa Higginbottom. Students collect the waste that traditional recycling methods, such as municipal governments, don’t have the budgets to cover. Higginbottom first started the program in 2010 after a student brought in a product that had been the result of Terracyle’s recycling process. After three years of dedication, when she went on maternity leave, the program remained idle.

Are you a fan of Entenmann's? Here's a chance to get some coupons for free product and a gift card. Open to US residents only through 3/15. Good luck. Earth Day is right around the corner and now is the time to start thinking again about ways to more environmentally conscience and live a greener lifestyle. Making a small change in your life can leave a large impact on the Earth for future generations to enjoy. This year Entenmann's has again partnered with TerraCycle to help bring awareness and ideas on how to do your part for the world this Earth Day (Sunday, April 22, 2018).

Some 50 percent of Americans send packaging from beauty and personal care products to landfill, according to Garnier. The L’Oréal-owned beauty brand has therefore partnered with TerraCycle and DoSomething.org to launch its second annual Rinse, Recycle, Repeat campaign