Garbage is an unlikely topic for a terrific coffee-table book, but the authors and publisher have come close with
"Make Garbage Great: The TerraCycle Family Guide to a Zero-Waste Lifestyle." TerraCycle is a young company devoted to innovative recycling services as well as “upcycling,” an optimistic notion which holds that there’s a value-added world beyond the pyramid of reduce-reuse-recycle – that our everyday discards can be transformed into something
better than the original item grown obsolete. One provocative example: TerraCycle turns cigarette filters into plastic pellets that can be used in the manufacture of durable plastic goods, like park benches and shipping pallets (with the paper and tobacco scraps being composted, of course).
TerraCycle recently announced its Recycled Playground Challenge, an initiative in partnership with Colgate-Palmolive (“Colgate”) and Meijer to help encourage healthy smiles and environments among school children and consumers. Running through Sept. 30, schools located throughout Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Wisconsin are eligible to compete for a new playground made completely of recycled material by joining TerraCycle’s Oral Care Brigade program. Through the Oral Care Brigade, a free recycling program run by Colgate and TerraCycle, schools will earn one "Playground Credit" for each shipment of empty toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes and floss containers sent to TerraCycle.
Normally, you wouldn’t give your toothbrush to someone once you’re done with it, but now you can, and for a good cause. The OTC dental programs are collecting and recycling used dental products, such as toothbrushes and empty toothpaste tubes. The programs will receive money for the items and those funds will go to Project HOPE, which buys supplies for the dental students to take on the annual mission trip to Nicaragua.
Zeeland Christian School is among three finalists in a six-state region to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste. The school that earns the most "playground credits" by recycling empty toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes and floss containers — and through online votes — by Sept. 30 will be named the winner. The Colgate Meijer Playground Challenge is a partnership between Colgate, Meijer and TerraCycle.
Recycling company TerraCycle is hosting the 10th annual Jersey Fresh Jam, Jersey’s biggest showcase for hip hop and graffiti, on Saturday, August 22, 2015 from noon to dusk. The event offers graffiti artists from the tri-state area a place to showcase their work and will include performances from local MCs and musicians, featuring headliner Wu Tang Clan Member Cappadonna. Visitors will also be able to check out fare from local food trucks and wares from vendors while watching artists paint the exterior walls of TerraCycle’s Trenton headquarters.
We just started watching Human Resources this season and we already love it. First, you’ve got a group of people who are passionate about finding ways to recycle EVERYTHING. Coffee Beans? Yep, they’ve had that covered for a while.
In the latest installment of Pivot TV’s reality show HUMAN RESOURCES, a small gem of a program, the folks at TerraCycle took on a project that made many of them feel uncomfortable — used feminine hygiene products.
Human Resources: Season 2 of this workplace reality series, set at a recycling company called TerraCycle in Trenton, begins as Toni Rossi, the new global head of business development, arrives for his first day of work.
From 12 artists painting a wall in North Trenton in a mostly dirt lot, to a festival style event in a lot that has developed along the years, Leon Rainbow could not be any more proud of the last decade of the Jersey Fresh Jam.
Artists continue to work on the Vicious Style Crew wall at the tenth anniversary of the Jersey Fresh Jam in Trenton on Saturday Aug. 22, 2015.
