Please recycle toothbrushes along with their packaging and empty toothpaste tubes. These items will be delivered to the new inside bins at the City of Greenbelt, Public Works Department, who participates with TerraCycle, a recycling company that specializes in recycling hard-to-recycle waste.

Choosing the right food for your dog is a daunting task. Not only does Open Farm provide unprecedented transparency for pet owners, but they also maintain a deep commitment to high-quality nutrition and humane sourcing. Their single-source protein ingredients are certified throughout the supply chain by independent partners like Humane Farm Animal Care, Ocean Wise, Seafood Watch and TerraCycle.

Guitar players love making messes. Slathering on too much fuzz at inopportune times, peaking VU meters, and rendering separation useless in the studio. It goes with the territory. D’Addario recently made string recycling easier for guitar players, with their Playback program, which allows players to drop off unwanted strings at more than 400 music retail spots around the U.S., including all Guitar Center locations. As an incentive, those who join the program earn points for recycling that can be used toward new strings or gear.

It’s all too easy to get discouraged by the vast amount, and devastating reach, of plastic waste. But rather than doing nothing because there’s so much to do, or because (like us), you’ll never be perfect, we can choose to make strides in the right direction. Clean up and Laundry: All-in-one Zero Waste Box

If there's one thing on here that needs serious work, it's my enormous beauty collection. I've been an avid beauty enthusiast for over five six years now and have amassed a crap ton of stuff. I want to cut down my collection to just the things I love. I have a hard time letting go of things so I'm working on buying less instead.

• Instead of throwing empty packaging away, I'll be collecting them to be recycled. My new space doesn't have a lot room for what I used to do but since I have a lot of cardboard boxes from various online orders, I decided to collect my empties in there and once full, I'll be shipping it off to Terracycle.

L’Occitane en Provence has completely redesigned its Canadian Flagship boutique at the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto, making it the brand’s first immersive digital experience and connected shopping model. For the first time in North America, an in-store bottling recycling program in partnership with TerraCycle will be offered, said the company.

As recycled crafters we tend to save things that are normally thrown out but if you are like me you can’t save everything. A New Year’s goal could be to reduce the recycling that enters your world to avoid this problem. Over at the blog Zero Waste Nerd there is a great list of 30 ways to reduce waste. Even if you do some or some some of the time I’m sure the planet will be a bit better off! Good luck!

The effects of the circular economy — which swaps the "take, make, dispose" model for one in which resources are kept in play for as long as possible — spread far this past year. The United Nations presented recycling company TerraCycle with an award this year for working with P&G on the "Ocean Plastic Bottle," the first commercially available consumer-grade bottle made from 10 percent marine plastic and 90 percent recycled plastic.

Madison residents can reduce the amount of trash that follows Santa’s arrival—and departure—with these recycling tips from the Madison Environmental Commission. Recycle mascara tubes, lipstick, lip balm, blush, foundation, moisturizer containers, toothbrushes, shampoo bottles, deodorant containers and other personal care items through TerraCycle.

Karen Neder wants your squeezed-out toothpaste tubes, your used-up glue sticks, and your old water filters. By pick-up, drive-by or drop off, she’ll take it all. The magic in Neder’s alchemy is TerraCycle, a company that collects, reuses, upcycles and recycles hard-to-recycle waste. Founded in 2001, the company's website says it operates in more than 20 countries to recycle billions of pieces of waste through various means.