The Holistic Moms Network will present The Great Unrecyclable Challenge in honor of Earth Day on Tuesday, April 7, at 6:30 p.m. at the Woodruff Family YMCA, 631 Orange Avenue. The group says there is a website called Terracycle.com that tells people how to recycle items not accepted in city recycling collections.

Tom’s of Maine is partnering with TerraCycle to keep broken toys out of landfills and made into other useful items like park benches. 

Natural personal care brand Tom's of Maine and TerraCycle®, the world's leader in recycling the non-recyclable, are teaming up during Earth Month to offer the first program that empowers families across the country to share in a teachable moment and recycle broken toys into something useful like park benches.  

KENNEBUNK, Maine, April 2, 2015 /Nassau News Live/ — Parents are always looking for ways to teach their children simple lessons that will benefit the planet and make every day Earth Day. With three billion toys purchased in 2014 alone, the challenge of what to do with broken dolls, cars without wheels or stuffed animals coming unraveled is greater than ever. Beginning today, unusable toys that aren’t fit for donating can now find a new home other than a landfill. Natural personal care brand Tom’s of Maine and TerraCycle®, the world’s leader in recycling the non-recyclable, are teaming up during Earth Month to offer the first program that empowers families across the country to share in a teachable moment and recycle broken toys into something useful like park benches.

At TerraCycle, we have developed collection and recycling programs for capsule waste by partnering with coffee producers such as Tassimo, Nespresso, Mars Drinks, and Illy. For coffee capsule waste not accepted by these recycling programs, we also have the Coffee Capsules Zero Waste Box, allowing anyone to send us any capsule waste for recycling

Sometimes sustainable packaging has less to do with eco-friendly packaging materials and more to do with how we actually distribute product. The bottled water industry, for instances, gets hit with quite a bit of criticism for how much unnecessary bottle waste is generated when most people have access to perfectly clean tap water.

GU has also entered into an ambitious recycling program with Terracycle™, making every single serve packet of gel, drink mix and chews recyclable.

TerraCycle collects cigarette waste at over 6,000 locations, resulting in the diversion of 23.4 million cigarette butts from landfills. In November 2013, the sustainability company launched the "Cigarette Waste Brigade" in Vancouver, Canada - its first butt recycling program. Since then, the project has expanded to include other cities.

The MID, which collects more than 2,200 gallons of trash downtown on any given day, is working with a company called TerraCycle to recycle the butts. The 14-year-old New Jersey company works with a variety of companies to collect difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and repurposes the material.