At my company, TerraCycle, we’re always asking ourselves what the next recycling innovation we can bring to consumers might be. Our first answer came in the form of free consumer-facing collection and recycling programs (sponsored by major brands and consumer packaged goods companies) for pre- and post-consumer packaging waste streams. While this free model has seen a lot of success, our capacity to collect and recycle is limited by the funding we are able to secure from our sponsors. To solve for this economic gap and engage with even more consumers, we began asking ourselves a new question: Are consumers willing to pay a premium for zero waste packaging solutions?

I never said motherhood was easy, throw a third kid into the mix and things get even more interesting. My youngest is now a month old and technically, I am still on maternity leave but while on leave, I wanted to take advantage of one thing: my hair. With pregnancy and hormonal changes, your hair changes as well, and to be honest, after delivery I did nothing but throw my hair up in a messy bun — albeit cute — it gets tiresome. I needed a change and one I could control. I called my stylist and asked for ‘mom hair’. You read that correctly, except mom hair to me probably means something different to you. To me, it means easy and manageable, or better worded ‘I have two minutes before the two younger ones need food or a diaper change and the other one throws a fit about her own hair before school.’ That is mom hair.

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” as the saying goes. For TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky, it was more than a saying—it was also his business plan. Founded in 2003, TerraCycle takes your garbage—everything and anything you could throw away or recycle—and transforms it into consumer products like cutting boards, reusable grocery bags, and even yard fencing.

Promise of Peace Gardens is in the running to win an outdoor garden! Vote for Promise of Peace once a day – EVERY DAY! Voting ends May 15, 2016. From the TerraCycle website: Garnier and TerraCycle are partnering to build a green garden made from recycled materials for a deserving community organization. The garden will not only provide a community with a safe space to connect and enjoy nature, but it will allow residents to grow their own fresh food.

Staples is partnering with TerraCycle, the world’s leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle, post-consumer waste to provide a zero-waste solution to its customers. Staples customers can now purchase Zero Waste Boxes from the company's website, allowing them to recycle a variety of traditionally non-recyclable household and office waste streams, ranging from coffee capsules to light bulbs. Some of the items consumers can now recycle include candy and snack wrappers, cleaning supplies and accessories, writing utensils, e-waste and mailing, shipping and packaging supplies. “We definitely see an interest from people wanting to recycle beyond what they can do curbside,” says TerraCycle founder and CEO Tom Szaky. “Now, new and existing Staples consumers have this resource that allows them to step up their environmental game.”

Matthew Hamilton, accompanied by other Crain Elementary School students, stood in front of a classroom answering questions fielded by a marketing account manager about his feelings on recycling. "I'm really nervous," Matthew, 10, said. "Recycling is important to me because one day I was upset because my room was messy and my parents told me if I started recycling, all of it could be gone in a day."

The Wood Ridge Public Education Foundation is expanding its Terracycle recycling programs. TerraCycle collects difficult-to-recycle waste and repurposes the material into unique products. All residents can now participate by dropping off drink pouches at the Wood Ridge Civic Center. The recycling initiative helps raise money for the students of Wood Ridge.

US consumers will now be easily able to recycle anything from coffee capsules to old lightbulbs following the arrival of "zero-waste boxes" to the US market. Recycling specialists TerraCycle's zero-waste boxes are now available on the US website of office supply giant Staples, the firm announced yesterday.

While some electronics manufacturers will allow for the salvaging of certain reusable parts from their used products, Apple insists they be destroyed, an effort to thwart the production of fake Apple products. That's according to Tim Culpan writing for Bloomberg.com, which covered the exacting security measures the company requires its e-scrap recycling contractors to follow. TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based company specializing in recovering a variety of difficult-to-recycle materials, launched a new mail-in programs applicable to e-scrap. The company is working with Staples.com to sell boxes in which a variety of materials, including electronics, can be mailed for recycling.

Office workers across North America know that a lot of their daily waste is recyclable—those leaky pens that don’t write, reams of office printouts, plastic bottles from rushed lunches—but it’s been a hard sell to get near full sustainability. Landlords have slowly come around to offer recycling bins and other methods, though at times only to appease green-minded CEOs.