The program is in partnership with TerraCycle, a company whose primary objective is to recycle waste that is typically considered non-recyclable. Consumers find recycling to be the most easily understood component of sustainability, and Office Depot is partnering with TerraCycle to help consumers participate in the movement for a more sustainable planet.
The program is in partnership with TerraCycle, a company whose primary objective is to recycle waste that is typically considered non-recyclable. Consumers find recycling to be the most easily understood component of sustainability, and Office Depot is partnering with TerraCycle to help consumers participate in the movement for a more sustainable planet.
The Waterfront Partnership used TerraCycle, an international recycling company, to transform the cigarette waste into useful products, such as compost and shipping pallets. TerraCycle's Cigarette Waste Bridge is a free national recycling program aimed to reduce cigarette waste.
From there, the Waterfront Partnership sends the cigarette litter to a recycling company, TerraCycle, which processes the litter into useful organics and plastics. The leftover tobacco and cigarette paper, which are considered organics, are added to non-food compost.
Henkel, Trenton, New Jersey, is partnering with TerraCycle to become the first company to offer a recycling solution for anaerobic adhesives.
Through the Adhesive Recycling Program, Henkel customers can purchase a postage-paid recycling box to fill with empty Loctite adhesive containers and send to TerraCycle for processing. TerraCycle will thermally treat the containers and turn them into new plastic products.
A more regenerative system in which collected waste materials are used as a resource to create new products is what recycling is actually about. For example, years ago my company TerraCycle partnered with Garnier to create the
Personal Care and Beauty Recycling Program, a free program that accepts everything from shampoo and conditioner bottles, eye cream tubs and hair spray pumps
for recycling. To enhance our recycling initiative’s impact, the program itself is brand agnostic: all personal care and beauty waste is accepted for recycling, regardless of brand.
From “a world leader in the upcycling And recycling movement,” Terracycle has published a book that’s considered the “household primer to going and staying green.” What’s different about this book, though, is that it’s chock full of more than 200 photographs and illustrations, and more than 100 tips and DIY projects that approach the upcycling subject in a very non-confrontational and user-friendly way. What’s great is that this book’s coffee table appeal means the ideas will always be handy since you won’t have to put it away on a shelf.
When I say impractical what I really mean is expensive. Look at the company
TerraCycle for example. They are a great organization who work with companies to recycle basically any product you can imagine. The catch.... they are pretty expensive. Let me give you an example.
We have been upcycling defunct writing instruments through Terracycle since 2012 and are honored to be a top collector in the nation. We have taken great strides in sustainability on campus and are so proud that we have been able to divert something not typically recyclable away from the landfill.
Fifty new, larger-capacity "butt bins" are being added to the collection of bins already scattered around the downtown and other areas of the city. Salem’s Park Your Butts Here” campaign, a partnership with Terracycle’s Cigarette Waste Brigade, was launched in September 2015 and was the first to roll out in New England.
