I’ll be honest, I had never heard of Terracycle until recently, and actually I am very surprised I hadn’t. The process by which they create their items is so innovative and environmentally friendly! Terracycle find ways to turn items that would usually not be recyclable, into brand new items!
Each year the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium (PERC) recognizes universities across Pennsylvania with the Campus Sustainability Champion Award. This year, Millersville’s own Stephanie Bradley, a junior majoring in social work, has been nominated for the prestigious award to be announced at the PERC 2014 Fall Conference, held on Nov. 12 at Penn State’s University Park campus in State College. One of the programs at Millersville that Bradley helps to implement is TerraCycle.
If you’ve been recycling through the city of Dalton curbside recycling program or at one of the four convenience centers in Whitfield County you know that our community recycles the basics: plastic bottles and jugs, paper, aluminum cans, bi-metal cans, glass bottles and jars. With a full recycling bin every week you may be wondering if there’s anything else you could be recycling to take your environmentally friendly habit to the next level. Here are some items that you may not be currently be recycling but are available either locally or through a mail in program.
Smokers are harming a whole lot more than just themselves. Here’s why smoking should be considered not just a health concern, but a major environmental one as well.
The boys and ghouls at Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful have conjured up a list of frightfully fun and shockingly simple ways to incorporate eco-friendly components into your Halloween décor leading up to the big day on October 31st. TerraCycle® Your Candy Wrappers – Once the holiday has come to an end, it’s easy to decide what to do with all of that candy (nomnomnom!). Unfortunately, it hasn’t always been easy to figure out what to do with all of those wrappers – which often wind up in our landfills due to the mix of materials that go into creating them (not easily recycled, we’re afraid!)
Last year Americans bought over 1 billion pounds of pumpkins, sent around 85 percent of textiles to the landfill and ate 598 million pounds of candy to celebrate Halloween. Halloween, like other holidays, is often fraught with over-consumptive behavior and waste. But you can be less impactful and still have fun.
The City of Salem, Massachusetts is launching a city-wide program to collect and recycle cigarette butts, in an effort to keep Salem streets clean. Salem’s rollout is the first in New England for this new initiative and will launch this month with the installation of dozens of new cigarette-recycling receptacles around the city, especially downtown. The receptacles will be easily identified with stickers that say “Recycle Your Butts Here.”
The city is launching a program to collect and recycle cigarette butts. Salem has become the first municipality in New England — and one of the first in the nation _ to team with
TerraCycle on the firm’s butt recycling initiative. Salem last week was set to begin installing dozens of cigarette receptacles in the city, primarily in the downtown. The waste will be collected regularly by city workers and shipped to TerraCycle.
Students at Fowler Elementary are doing their part to keep our community clean and planet healthy – all while raising much-needed funding. With the help of recycling and upcycling company TerraCycle, the Fowler students are collecting cheese packaging and drink pouches while earning two cents for every item returned. Helping the planet by recycling more is already a no-brainer, but the fact that we can raise money for the school at same time is almost too good to be true.
Do you use a Brita® water purification system or pitcher? How about PUR®? There is no need to worry about what to do with those used plastic carbon filter cartridges. The Howard County Recycling District facility now accepts those items for recycling.
