Open Farm, the first ethically raised and sourced pet food, is making its packaging nationally recyclable through a program with TerraCycle. After launching in Canada in 2014, Open Farm is now available in U.S. pet stores nationwide and the plastic bags are recyclable through TerraCycle. Open Farm is also partnering with TerraCycle Canada to operate a similar program.

My bag-about-town this spring is the Upcycled USPS Mail Sack Tote. This heavy-duty canvas bag has some key design features that I love.  The long nylon webbing shoulder straps allow easy access, important when someone is digging-in to grab a water bottle or a snack. I also love that the canvas has been recycled - the clever design house TerraCycle has repurposed real USPS mail sacks! 

Entenmann’s is partnering with TerraCycle, an international leader in the collection and reuse of non-recyclable post-consumer waste, for the “Turn Trash to Cash” campaign that helps kids earn cash for their schools.

This is a particularly tough time to be telling businesses that using more recycled materials makes good economic sense. Falling oil prices have lowered the price of virgin plastic against the recycled stuff, which has put off manufacturers and hurt recycling companies (plastic makes up a growing share of their waste feed). Without a price on carbon, using recycled commodities does not necessarily help a company’s bottom line. “People aren’t going to pay more for recycled plastic just because it’s recycled,” says Tom Szaky of TerraCycle, which makes consumer products from waste.

TerraCycle, which specializes in hard-to-recycle waste, collects cigarette butts, which are then turned into industrial products like plastic pallets.

The Little Bites Pouch Brigade, sponsored by Entenmann's and New Jersey-based recycling firm Terracycle, offers financial rewards — two cents per wrapper — to schools that collect and send in recycled Little Bites wrappers. With funding provided by Entenmann's, Terracycle collects the wrappers and uses them to make new products — from lunch boxes to picnic tables.

There’s a company that will recycle, basically, everything! TerraCycle wants your trash, and they will pay you (well, a nonprofit of your choice) to send it to them.

Once the box is full, it is shipped free of charge to the New Jersey-based TerraCycle, which will use the tobacco to make compost and turn the plastic filters in the butts to pellets for use producing items such as park benches, shipping pallets and railroad ties.