TerraCycle has announced it will sell "zero-waste boxes" in the US via retail chain Staples’ website, which will store household and office waste that curbside haulers will not typically handle, such as cleaning supplies, electronics, coffee capsules, and light bulbs.
Terracycle has partnered with
www.Staples.com to offer recycling solutions to US consumers. Terracycle’s Zero Waste Boxes have now been listed on Staples website. Consumers can order Zero Waste Boxes online through the site. The program aims to achieve zero waste by encouraging US consumers to recycle more household and office waste. Some of the items that can be recycled include candy and snack wrappers, cleaning supplies and accessories, writing utensils, e-waste and mailing, shipping and packaging supplies. When boxes are full, consumers have to mail it to TerraCycle along with the prepaid shipping label. The purchase price of the box is inclusive of the shipping charges. The waste thus collected will be processed to make various useful items.
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TerraCycle and Staples are expanding their zero-waste recycling option for household and office waste to the US. The recycling program launched in Canada in 2014. The program allows customers to recycle a range of items, including candy and snack wrappers, cleaning supplies and accessories, writing utensils, e-waste and mailing, shipping and packaging supplies, through TerraCycle’s Zero Waste Boxes, sold on Staples.com. The program works like this: offices or households fill a box, then mail it to TerraCycle with the prepaid shipping label. The purchase price of the box ($82.99) includes shipping back to TerraCycle and the processing of the waste. TerraCycle will turn the waste into a plastic that can be recycled into benches, bicycle racks, watering cans and other items.
After a successful launch in Canada, TerraCycle is giving U.S. consumers the chance to recycle anything from coffee capsules to light bulbs. TerraCycle’s Zero Waste Boxes are now listed on Staples.com website, meaning customers have the opportunity to recycle more household and office waste. Some of the things consumers can recycle include candy and snack wrappers, cleaning supplies and accessories, writing utensils, e-waste and mailing, shipping and packaging supplies.
US customers can now purchase 'zero-waste boxes' from office supplier Staples, to fill with assortment of household and office waste for recycling. 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.
Consumers are steadily becoming more conscious of environmental issues, and more eager to reduce waste at home and work — but are these enough to translate into action? Moreover, will consumers pay to live up to ‘green’ standards and aspirations in their lives? The success my company, TerraCycle, is seeing with our Zero Waste Box platform seems to indicate that many are willing. Due to the economics of garbage, recycling traditionally difficult-to-recycle waste streams has always been a challenge for us. Overcoming those roadblocks was not easy, but we found a way through our ‘sponsored waste’ recycling programs. Consumer product companies such as Procter & Gamble and Colgate, and major brands such as Tom’s of Maine sponsor our recycling programs, allowing us to offer them to consumers, school groups, offices, and community organizations for free. People join a program; collect waste at home, at work or in their communities; print out a free shipping label and send the waste to TerraCycle for recycling.
My company, TerraCycle, has been at the forefront of recycling technology for over a decade. We develop recycling solutions for difficult-to-recycle waste streams: from water filters, toothbrushes and other products, to post-consumer packaging waste, chewed gum and cigarette butts. Thanks to our corporate sponsors, we offer recycling programs for these waste streams (among many others) to consumers, schools and other organizations at no cost, successfully avoiding the common economic barriers that prevent most waste streams on the planet from being recycled.
How do you get corporations to think about their footprint and have a positive impact on the environment in a way that still serves their own interest? Partner
with them. The work that Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, is doing in this space is innovative and provides new lenses to evaluate and think about collaborative models to do good better.
Just over a year after introducing the service in Canada, Staples in the US is offering TerraCyle’s zero-waste recycling solution. Just over a year after introducing the service in Canada, Staples in the US is offering TerraCycle’s zero-waste recycling solution. More than 40 TerraCycle zero-waste boxes are now available on Staples.com, enabling customers to recycle things such as snack wrappers, cleaning supplies and accessories, writing instruments, light bulbs, coffee capsules and packaging supplies.
