TerraCycle, a company that provides recycling solutions for spent coffee pods, has teamed up with Tassimo, Mars Drinks, Nespresso and Illy, but despite reaching out to the company multiples times, has not be able to develop a relationship with Green Mountain (Keurig).”
All those butts she collects don’t go to a landfill. As she said, you can recycle anything. Keep Brunswick-Golden Isles Beautiful sends them to TerraCycle, a company that melts them down to cast some low-grade plastic products such as shipping pallets, shipping peanuts and — get this — ashtrays.
Other stories from the waste sector:
Auto parts can now go in Zero Waste Boxes: a few months ago, we covered
Terracycle’s Zero Waste Box. Not only has this concept come to the US, but it’s also vastly expanded: boxes for products ranging from
automotive parts to action figures are now available (as well as “single stream” boxes). The company has
boxes available for both consumers and commercial users. (via
Waste Dive)
TerraCycle, a recycling company based in Trenton, New Jersey, is offering a new automotive parts recycling program for individuals, mechanics and auto repair shops. TerraCycle says the service, part of its Zero Waste Box collection program, is designed to reduce the number of items sent to landfills.
TerraCycle, a recycling company based in Trenton, New Jersey, is offering a new automotive parts recycling program for individuals, mechanics and auto repair shops. TerraCycle says the service, part of its Zero Waste Box collection program, is designed to reduce the number of items sent to landfills.
Dive Brief:
- TerraCycle is launching a new car parts recycling program geared toward consumers, mechanics, and repair shops.
- The project is offered as part of the Trenton, NJ-based company’s “Zero Waste Box” collection program.
- The service intends to reduce the volume of automotive parts ending up in landfills.
DANBURY, Conn. — Tom Szaky possesses all the usual entrepreneurial traits — obsessive, innovative, smart — but he works in a business that few others do, and in the process he is creating a new intersection of industry, recycling and even art.Szaky’s company,
TerraCycle, makes money by reusing products that are normally not recycled, but instead are thrown away and later buried, incinerated or left by the side of the road, including items like potato chip bags and cigarette butts.
My company, TerraCycle, has first-hand experience with some of these problems. In 2012, we partnered with Kenco, a leading producer of instant and ground coffee in the UK. The partnership developed on the heels of Kenco’s transition away from its glass jar package (highly recyclable) and toward a 97% lighter pouch package (non-recyclable).
LANGHORNE — Cairn University Students are hosting a community e-waste collection drive with recycling pioneer TerraCycle Inc. March 21.
This is a question we have confronted at TerraCycle in many different circumstances, as sustainable alternatives to existing products or materials are not always truly sustainable right away.
