Laval, Quebec-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. has announced its wholly owned subsidiary Bausch + Lomb’s One by One Recycling Program has recycled more than 1 million used contact lenses, blister packs and top foils since its launch in December 2016. Through a partnership with Trenton, New Jersey-based TerraCycle, a leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle waste.

One by One Recycling Program has recycled more than 1 million used contact lenses, blister packs and top foils since its launch in December 2016. Laval, Quebec-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. has announced its wholly owned subsidiary Bausch + Lomb’s One by One Recycling Program has recycled more than 1 million used contact lenses, blister packs and top foils since its launch in December 2016. Through a partnership with Trenton, New Jersey-based TerraCycle, a leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle postconsumer materials, the One by One Recycling Program has diverted more than 7,000 pounds of waste from landfills.

In Park Slope, Brooklyn, the Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District has moved forward with an initiative to install special cigarette receptacles along Fifth Avenue. The bins will collect cigarette and cigar butts, rolling paper, loose tobacco pouches, filters, inner and outer package foiling and ash (cardboard cigarette boxes are not accepted). The waste from the receptacles is collected by TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based company that specializes in recycling items that wouldn’t ordinarily be considered recyclable. The company works with different municipalities around the country and world to install receptacles in order to diversify waste streams.

Young people’s perspectives on consumerism change from one generation to the next. The “GI Generation” was raised during the Great Depression when money was tight, resources were low and everything was valuable, so things got reused. “Baby Boomers” came of age at the dawn of television watching shows like “Leave it to Beaver” and “Ozzie & Harriet,” which showed America how to be consumers. Fast forward to the 80’s when “Generation X” was growing up; it was an age of excess and the concept of the “throw-away society” surged.

Have you ever heard of a playground made of old toothbrushes and floss containers? Probably not. But for the kids, teachers and surrounding communities of St. Katharine Drexel Regional Catholic School, it was the first thing on their minds for most of 2017. After several months of hard work and dedication, it was announced in June that the Holland-based school was the winner of the TerraCycle Recycled Playground Challenge. On Nov. 2, the newly donated playground from TerraCycle, ShopRite and Colgate was officially unveiled during a special ribbon-cutting ceremony.

ALTO, MICH. - A new playground is coming to southeast Kent County and it's made from recycled oral care products. Kettle Lake Elementary School, in the Caledonia Community School district, will hold a ribbon cutting at 9:15 a.m.Wednesday, Nov. 15 at their new playground. The big unveil comes as we celebrate America Recycles Day.

TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky shows a shampoo bottle made with recycled plastic collected from beaches and oceans. (Phil Gregory/WHYY) The United Nations has recognized a Trenton-based recycling company for creating a shampoo bottle that’s made with plastic waste collected from beaches and waterways. TerraCycle chief executive officer Tom Szaky said 25 percent of the world’s plastic ends up in oceans, rivers, and lakes.

A Trenton-based recycling company has received an award from the United Nations for creating a shampoo bottle that’s made with plastic waste collected from beaches and waterways.

TerraCycle has been honored with the United Nations Momentum for Change Lighthouse Activity award for turning plastic collected from oceans into shampoo bottles for Head & Shoulders.

LAVAL, Quebec, Nov. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.'s (NYSE: VRX and TSX: VRX) wholly owned subsidiary, Bausch + Lomb, today announced that its unique ONE by ONE Recycling Program has recycled a combined total of more than one million used contact lenses, blister packs and top foils in less than one year since its launch. Made possible through a collaboration with TerraCycle®, a world leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste, the ONE by ONE Recycling Program has diverted more than 7,000 pounds of waste from landfills.