Guitar string maker D'Addario, in partnership with Terracycle, has created Playback, the first-ever string recycling program. Festivals and venues are also increasingly tracking information on the waste produced and recovered, posting waste reduction statistics on their websites as a badge of honor.

The Hastings Revitalization Association (HRA) will continue to work towards establishing a cigarette butt recycling program in the village. The organization is a few sponsors short of being able to launch a program in tandem with TerraCycle, a company that specializes in recycling difficult to recycle packages and products.

TerraCycle takes the recyclable material and then re-purposes them into useable items. The company’s cigarette butt recycling program has been in Canada since 2012. The collected butts are recycled into plastic pellets to make industrial products like plastic shipping pallets.

Beechview PTA is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the Recycled Playground Challenge, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive, Meijer and TerraCycle. Beechview PTA will earn one ‘Playground Credit’ for each unit of oral care waste, such as empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers, sent to TerraCycle for recycling.

In partnership with global recycling organization TerraCycle, D’Addario has unveiled Playback, the world’s first industry-wide string recycling program. Musicians can take their used strings – regardless of the brand – to participating dealers for safe recycling, earning reward points for every .25 pound of strings turned in, which equals about six sets of acoustic strings or seven sets of electric strings.

The company is working on the program with recycling organisation TerraCycle, and although it's currently only available in the US, we hope to see it expanded worldwide. You can sign up for D'Addario Playback now.

When D’Addario & Co. teamed up recently with the global recycling organization TerraCycle to create Playback, a safe and independent way to recycle instrument strings, the string manufacturer discovered an untapped market.

Now, the company has launched the first-ever instrument string recycling program called Playback in partnership with the company TerraCycle — which collects and repurposes hard-to-recycle products such as chip bags and cigarette butts.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard the stats: Plastic is flooding our world. Our oceans bear the burden of five continent-sized mass accumulations of plastic, and unless our ravenous consumption of it changes, scientists predict there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans by 2050.

Jefferson East Elementary is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the Recycled Playground Challenge, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive, Meijer and TerraCycle. The school will earn one credit for each empty toothpaste tube or floss container sent to TerraCycle. An additional credit is earned for every online vote cast for the school at www.meijer.com/colgate by June 18.