It felt like it would never end. But, at long last, the curtain is closing on 12 extraordinary months that were strange and unprecedented, to say the least. The conversation certainly was vibrant. In January, Procter & Gamble, TerraCycle and Suez joined the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the circular economy think tank, at a World Economic Forum panel in Davos to talk about a
plan to increase plastics recycling to 70 percent within three years; it’s currently around 14 percent.
As part of its Go Green initiatives, the school participated in a candy wrapper collection this fall as part of a school contest sponsored by Loggerhead Marine Center. WACS collected 34.6 pounds of candy wrappers and was among the top three schools in the contest. The marine center partnered with TerraCycle and sent all candy wrappers and packaging collected to be re-purposed into new supplies.
Wondering what to do with the dead tree standing in your living room?
Don’t just trash it: Drop it off for free with Teton County Solid Waste and Recycling. Gift-wrapping and ribbon are not recyclable — recycling company TerraCycle states that “38,000 miles of ribbon are sent to landfills each year, more than enough to tie a bow around the Earth” — but other trimmings are.
Projects by Coca-Cola, McCormick and Procter & Gamble led our top sustainable packaging articles of the year, with some of the highest page views of all stories posted this year on PackagingDigest.com. P&G partnered with
TerraCycle and
Suez, the largest waste management company in Europe, “to source, develop and put out the first fully recyclable shampoo bottle made from up to 25% beach plastic for the world’s #1 shampoo brand, Head & Shoulders,” says Tom Szaky, TerraCycle’s founder/CEO and article author.
Regenerative agriculture as a means of offsetting environmental impact, the benefits of space-efficient farming, and how plant-based and so-called clean meat can improve food security, human health, and the planet, are among the thought-provoking innovations the food industry is shaping. Michael Waas, global vice president for brand partnerships for Trenton, N.J.-based TerraCycle, which helps eliminate waste by collecting and finding ways to recycle waste that can’t be recycled today, is also approaching sustainability in a unique way.
In the world we live in right now, conflicts rise left and right. Problems keep on popping out, and people fight over almost anything and everything these days. The corporation also established collaborative relationships with other environmental organizations such as TerraCycle and SUEZ with the intention of bringing advancements on the aspect of sustainable packaging.
We applaud everyone who has made this list and congratulate their work. Check out our 2017 Entrepreneur360 list by
clicking here. The list featured an array of companies, including the addictive app
Dots, the cutting-edge recycling company
TerraCycle and popular social media tool
Meet Edgar. To make the list, the companies had to be privately-owned businesses in the U.S., with at least one founding member involved in the operations.
When it comes to today’s purchasing habits, corporate social responsibility (CSR) or social purpose, are “the new black” to many consumers. As one of the leading eye health companies, Bausch + Lomb has managed to keep its eye on the sustainability prize with its ONE by ONE Recycling Program. The program, made possible through a collaboration with TerraCycle, a world leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste, has diverted more than 7,000 pounds of waste from landfills, and has helped create new post-consumer products.
Here’s things modern consumers like: efficacy, forward-thinking products, and a clean-living back-story to their brands.
Procter & Gamble kick-started the year teaming up with TerraCycle and Suez to announce its new recyclable Head & Shoulders shampoo bottle made from beach plastic, said to be a world-first. Such was the success of this creation that P&G received the
United Nation’s Momentum for Change award in the Planetary Health category in October this year.
Three Bridges School of Three Bridges has been named the grand prize winner through this year's Entenmann's(r) Little Bites(r): Collection Bin Bonanza, in partnership with recycling pioneer TerraCycle(r). As the grand prize winner, they will receive 60 Boxes of Entenmann's Little Bites, a feature on the Entenmann's website and 25,000 TerraCycle Points.
