D’Addario is rolling out the world’s first wide-scale string recycling program: Playback. The program is powered by TerraCycle, an upcycling and recycling company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging and products to re-purpose the material into affordable, innovative products. Collect your used strings (and from your friends and fellow musicians) and bring them to the store along with your electric or acoustic guitar. Your contribution of used strings qualifies you for a free set of D’Addario strings and a complimentary restring by an expert team. Choose either a set of D’Addario’s premium NYXL electric guitar strings or D’Addario’s NEW Nickel Bronze acoustic guitar strings.

It’s not unusual for different areas of a company to embrace sustainability at different levels. The key, says Procter & Gamble’s Virginie Helias, is to understand the reasons why and the challenges of bringing everyone up to the same standard of commitment and engagement.

P&G partnered with TerraCycle to create the Fairy Ocean Plastic bottle, which is made from 90 percent post-consumer recycled plastic and 10 percent ocean plastic.

One of my biggest lessons from The Wellness Project was that you can’t make healthier choices until you know what c I’d also say that a very necessary pre-curser to this is knowing your baseline. Where your habits currently stand. Not what you think you’re doing, but what you’re actually doing.

Tom Szaky, the Hungarian-born CEO and founder of TerraCycle, dreams of chewing gum, cigarette butts and ocean plastic. His Trenton, New Jersey-based company aims to accelerate the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, a breakthrough in materials science, energy storage and other technologies, by cleaning up after heaps of waste and inventing inputs for items spurned by ordinary recyclers.

Now more than ever, it’s important that we reduce our ecological footprint to create a greener world for the future. Scouts Canada has always encouraged members to do their part to create a cleaner environment, whether it be through litter cleanups or leave-no-trace initiatives that encourage people to leave the surrounding environment the way they found it. Recycling is one of the easiest ways to be green, and there are so many things you can recycle!

The school won the playground valued at about $50,000 in an oral care products recycling contest sponsored by TerraCycle, Colgate and ShopRite. St. Katharine Drexel Catholic School in the Holland section of Northampton unveiled its new playground made of recycled oral care products during a recent ribbon-cutting ceremony at the school.

For those who think recycling is difficult — sorry, but I’m about to take you from the “Three Rs” of recycling to the “Eight Rs.” And for those who actively recycle, you are going to love that we have added five more Rs.

Since 2001, TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky has been working hard to eliminate the idea of “waste.” The idea behind the company is to figure out how to repurpose waste, especially hard to recycle waste. They have literally repurposed billions of pieces of waste through innovative programs and partnering with conscientious companies, organizations and individuals. In their own words, “TerraCycle offers free recycling programs funded by brands, manufacturers, and retailers around the world to help you collect and recycle your hard-to-recycle waste.”

As a design material, plastic is fantastic. Cheap, durable and light - it is the doyen of packaging, the king of all our white goods and the magic ingredient in everything from shampoo to cosmetics. But, as we send more and more plastic to landfill and into our oceans, it is becoming ubiquitous with our environment.