Upwards of 100 million tons of plastic are manufactured annually across the globe. That’s 200 billion pounds of new material on-market every year, ready to be thermoformed, laminated, foamed and extruded into billions of products and packages. In the past decades it has been widely adopted by industry, and plastic has become one of the most ubiquitous and versatile materials in the world – and, subsequently, one of the most difficult to reliably collect and recycle.

TerraCycle wants your trash, and they will pay you (well, a nonprofit of your choice) to send it to them. They take it, make products out of it, and reduce the growth rate of this nightmare.

Today is Earth Day and the month of May marks Coyote Howling's two year anniversary of coordinating TerraCycling in the community. What better time to update Ruidoso's role in the international growth of TerraCycle®.

But I’m definitely guilty of tossing the broken toys and things with missing pieces straight into the garbage.  This year, in order to reduce the number of toys ending up in landfills, Tom’s of Maine partnered with Terracycle to make these awesome toy recycling boxes!

The “beauty brigades” started in every residence hall bathroom on Rider’s campus. Green buckets, adorned with pictures of cosmetic packaging and various personal hygiene bottles accompanied by a list of accepted empty containers, mysteriously appeared in both men’s and women’s restrooms. The only other signal for the fate of these empty bottles was a logo that read “TerraCycle.” The founder of TerraCycle, entrepreneur and environmentalist Tom Szaky, was a special speaker for Rider in 2008.

HackensackUMC is also the first hospital in the country to partner with the recycling pioneer TerraCycle, which keeps difficult-to-recycle items – like keyboards, diaper packaging, and writing utensils – out of landfills, and helps turn them into affordable, eco-friendly consumer products.

I’ve always hated throwing away things that can be recycled. Then Sayward mentioned how Tom’s of Maine and TerraCycle are working together to recycle traditionally un-recycleable things. So I went to check it out. I found something even better. There are a bunch of ways that you can recycle through TerraCycle.

It’s a message the volunteer with the Huntington Beach chapter of Surfrider Foundation takes seriously, for the past three years helping to implement a canister program called “Hold Onto Your Butts” that has gathered more than 250,000 cigarette butts.Then, Sellers gathers the piles of butts each month or so in big plastic bags and takes it to the U. S. Post Office to ship them out to be recycled to a company called Terracycle.