Have a guitar restrung for free while keeping your old strings from marring the landscape today at Ernie Williamson Music. TerraCycle and D’Addario have partnered in the celebration of International Guitar Month and Earth Day to provide the free recycle and restring event from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today at the 925 S. Range Line store, according to Veronica Rajadnya of TerraCycle.
Have a guitar restrung for free while keeping your old strings from marring the landscape today at Ernie Williamson Music.
TerraCycle and D’Addario have partnered in the celebration of International Guitar Month and Earth Day to provide the free recycle and restring event from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today at the 925 S. Range Line store, according to Veronica Rajadnya of TerraCycle.
Between now and May 7, Pasadena, Pearland and Webster area residents can recycle used car seats! In celebration of Earth Month, 36 Target stores across Texas are hosting a car seat collection program to help residents reduce household clutter without sending waste to landfill. All car seats collected through this program will be recycled through TerraCycle so that each component will see a second life.
Staples Business Advantage also offers battery and lamp recycling programs and even zero-waste box solutions by Terracycle, while Staples stores offer free in-store technology and rechargeable battery recycling for businesses and consumers.
When the dirty job of separating food and compostable materials from trash and recycling was finished at last year’s Big Sur International Marathon, there were about four bags worth of trash to be taken to the landfill. Not bad for an event that featured about 7,000 participants. That amount of waste “could fit in the trunk of a car,” said Kristin Cushman, founder and executive director of The Offset Project, which has been a partner to the marathon since 2009.
As Earth Day approaches, many of us ponder whether we’ll be leaving our planet in better shape than when we inherited it. After reading the disturbing fact that by the year 2050 more plastic bottles will occupy the ocean than fish, it doesn’t seem like we’re doing a particularly good job.
D’Addario has been a pioneer in sustainability for decades, from environmentally responsible packaging to robust tree re-planting programs. The company is taking its environmental commitment even further in 2016 with the unveiling of Playback, the world’s first-ever industry-wide instrument string recycling program. D’Addario has teamed with the global recycling organization TerraCycle to create Playback, a safe and independent way to recycle and upcycle instrument strings.
Hawthorne has also recycled 61,454 juice pouches since 2013. They are shipped to Terracycle, a company that finds unique ways to reuse or “upcycle” waste instead of sending it to landfills. They use juice pouches to make notebooks, lunch bags and other products.
She also got her office to join in the “Writing Instruments Brigade,” a recycling program through
TerraCycle. Here’s how it works: TerraCycle sends a collection box to recycle sharpies, highlighters, pens, markers and mechanical pencils. After collecting five pounds of pens, you send the box in a postage-paid envelope back to TerraCycle, which in turn donates 2 cents per instrument to the Xerox charity of choice, which is the United Way.
