Did you know that you can recycle pens at the University of Ottawa? A few years ago, the Office of Campus Sustainability introduced Pen Recycling on campus as an expansion to the recycling program. There is only one problem... how can you get people to recycle something they don't know that they can recycle?
Vancouver-based recycling company TerraCycle has launched a new program aimed at recycling plastic writing utensils that are often simply discarded when they run out of ink.
Hello and welcome back to Talkin' Trash, Waste Dive's look at the stories from the week, big and small. This week was a big one, with an exclusive Wast Dive interview with the CEO of TerraCycle and important news coming out of municipalities.
TerraCycle has long been known for its creative, though niche, approach to the recycling industry. Now it's on track to try and upend the whole model.
How fast can YOU restring your guitar? Premier Guitar and sponsors Fender, D'Addario Playback and Robert Keeley Engineering are joining forces to find the fastest guitar stringer in the West with PG's String Slinger 2018 competition. The D'Addario Playback program is an industry-wide string recycling initiative, powered by TerraCycle, to reward players for recycling any brand of strings.
Last summer,
UPS and TerraCycle offered proof that similar plans could work, as the companies announced they had successfully diverted 40 million pounds of waste from landfills due to their partnership.
As you know from my blogs on water filters, how to
choose the best one for YOUR water, and which is the
best type of filter, my favourite brand of carbon filter is Brita. Brita has partnered with TerraCycle, making it easy for all American customers to recycle Brita filters! And you can earn Brita Reward points too!
I walked into the ShurFine recently and was surprised (and pleased) to see a new box labeled TerraCycle sitting on the end of the first checkout counter.
I walked into the ShurFine recently and was surprised (and pleased) to see a new box labeled TerraCycle sitting on the end of the first checkout counter.
