TRENTON >> The Jersey Fresh Jam — hosted every year at TerraCycle’s headquarters in Trenton — has been free for attendees.
The 12th annual event this year, which will be held on Aug. 12, will also cost nothing for visitors.
But organizers are asking the community for some financial support to improve the sound system and pay for premium spray paint for artists at the hip hop festival.
CHARLOTTE – Oaklawn Language Academy is keeping snack pouches out of landfills.
Through a free recycling program in partnership with TerraCycle and sponsored by Entenmann’s Little Bites, Oaklawn has helped the nationwide collection reach the milestone of 2.5 million snack pouches diverted from the waste stream.
Along with keeping the pouches out of landfills, collectors earn points that can be redeemed for cash donations to the nonprofit or school of the collector’s choice. Donations have just passed $40,000.
Suzette Brown, a teacher at Oaklawn, has been collecting Little Bites packages with her son to improve their recycling efforts since 2012.
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Three dozen volunteers removed 165 pounds of trash from the Palm Beach shoreline Saturday during a
Friends of Palm Beach cleanup event.
In addition to the typical plastic and medical waste collected, volunteers also reported finding a dead shark with a hook in its mouth.
The group sends the plastic to
TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based organization that turns waste into affordable green products.
NJBIZ has revealed the 2017 winners of one of its most popular awards: the Forty Under 40. These up-and-coming stars of the New Jersey business community have achieved professional excellence at a young age, representing the future of their industries and the state as a whole.
This year, NJBIZ is doing something different: announcing five winners in each of eight different major industries.
These accomplished young professionals are names to remember in their fields in the years to come, but they share many characteristics of great businesspeople, from a commitment to success, professional achievement and contributions to the community.
Their defining characteristic is, of course, their success at a young age.
NJBIZ and our Forty Under 40 sponsors will celebrate these tremendous young executives and entrepreneurs at an awards ceremony starting at 6 p.m. Sept. 11 at iPlay America in Freehold.
MADISON – As the community strives to “go green,” one question is: How can residents recycle “non-recyclables?”
The
Sustainable Madison Advisory Committee, which works with the Madison Environmental Commission and other committees in the borough to encourage environmentally sustainable practices, has one answer.
“As we strive to make the town and the world a more environmentally-friendly place, we are confronted with certain challenges,” Amy Terracciano of Sustainable Madison said, “one of them being how to recycle unusual items such as juice pouches, granola bags, and cosmetic packaging. We use these items on a daily basis and due to the complexity in recycling them, they often end up in the landfill.”
In order to help eliminate such waste and encourage people to recycle the “non-recyclables,” Terracciano said,
TerraCycle was formed “in order to prevent these items from being improperly disposed.”
TerraCycle is an international “up-cycling” and recycling company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging and products, and re-purposes the materials into affordable, innovative products.
TerraCycle started in 2001 and for the past 16 years the company has spread to 23 countries, involving more than 60 million people in recycling common household items.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced the finalists for its annual
Dream Big Small Business of the Year Award, presented by MetLife, which celebrates the achievements of small businesses and honors their contributions to America’s economic growth.
“Small businesses are a critical and vibrant segment of the U.S. economy. Despite the challenges they face, small business owners never stop innovating, taking risks, working hard, and dreaming big,” said Thomas J. Donohue, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “These finalists and their small businesses strengthen their communities and local economies. The Chamber is proud to honor these outstanding companies, which together represent what’s possible in our free enterprise system. They are a reminder that there is nothing small about small business.”
This year’s finalists, selected from a record number of applicants, for the
Dream Big Small Business of the Year Awards program include:
The winners of the 2017 Los Alamos County Business Recycler of the Year were Chamisa Elementary School for Educational Institute and Pajarito Environmental Education Center for Business/Non-Profit.
The Business Recycler of the Year award is sponsored by the Los Alamos County Environmental Services Division and the Los Alamos County Environmental Sustainability Board.
The Business Recycler of the Year Award is a great avenue to promote recycling in the business community and get more businesses participating in the recycle program. To become eligible, a business is nominated by a member of the community for contributing to recycling and waste reduction.
Los Alamos County Environmental Services received seven nominations for the fifth annual Business Recycler of the Year Award. There were two categories this year, Educational Institute and Business/Non-Profit. Educational Institutes were: Chamisa Elementary School, Los Alamos High School Eco Club, and Aspen K-Kids (sponsored by Kiwanis). Business/Non-Profit nominees were: Merrick & Company, Pajarito Environmental Educational Center, Sirphey and Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church Shop on the Corner. The voting was conducted via an online survey.
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