BOSTON, Mass. — Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. announced a partnership with TerraCycle for a free recycling program. Ocean Spray, which calls itself an “agricultural cooperative owned by more than 700 farmer families” said its work with TerraCycle, deemed an “innovative waste management company,” will help consumers. It will enable consumers to recycle Ocean Spray flexible plastic Craisins dried cranberries and snack packaging for an alternative use. Through the partnership, Ocean Spray is advancing its sustainable packaging strategy by helping to divert waste from landfills and extending the life of material to reduce its overall environmental footprint.

Waste is an omnipresent downside — one thing that concurrently impacts the environment, international financial system, and private lives. Provided that plastic waste alone is projected to be as high as 53 billion pounds a year by 2030, we can not ignore it. In accordance with TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky, the issue isn’t that we’re ignoring, it the issue is that it’s bodily troublesome for the person to do something about it. Szaky says waste has at all times been an issue, however public consciousness actually went up within the 21st century, because the rise of web curiosity in issues such because the influence of waste and ocean plastics moved it from an issue to a disaster. As Szaky says, there’s no “good consumption,” and everyone knows far more concerning the situation than we used to. However as a lot as we would wish to partake of the recycle/cut back/reuse answer, the shortcomings aren’t essentially on us. Says Szaky, “All of us agree that it’s the difficulty, and all of us should work, however what will we do to really make it a actuality?”

The Trenton Downtown Association’s “Murals on Front Street” project at Front and South Broad streets has been bringing color and life to the downtown Trenton region over the past few months. The community-based arts project supported by a $25,000 New Jersey State Council on the Arts grant is coordinated by Trenton street artist Leon Rainbow, who enlisted several other noted artists in the region to participate.

A latest survey on COVID-19 Outbreak-Global Plastic Bottle Recycling Market is conducted to provide hidden gems performance analysis. The study is a perfect mix of qualitative and quantitative information covering market size breakdown of revenue and volume (if applicable) by important segments. The report bridges the historical data from 2014 to 2019 and forecasted till 2025*. The outbreak of covid-19 in global market haves made companies uncertain about their future secario as the prolonged lock-down finds serious economic slump. Some are the key & emerging players that are part of coverage and have being profiled are FE Group, Seiu Japan Co., Ltd., Veolia, Anhui Yangquan Plastic Products Co., Ltd., Shandong Power Plastic Co.,Ltd, Samyang Corporation, Suntory, Tomra Japan Ltd, TerraCycle & Dongjin.

TerraCycle is partnering with Nordstrom to intercept and properly recycle hard-to-recycle items and ensure that they will never be landfilled, littered or incinerated. Beginning October 1, customers are invited to bring any brand of beauty packaging waste to the beauty department at participating Nordstrom locations and dispose of them in the provided TerraCycle Zero Waste Boxes. When full, the boxes will be returned to TerraCycle for processing and the collected waste will be cleaned, melted and remolded to make new products. “TerraCycle’s mission has always been to ‘Eliminate the Idea of Waste’ and we’ve proven that solutions do exist for items that may seem difficult to recycle,” said Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle. “Nordstrom not only shares our commitment but has taken it to the next level by spearheading the Nordstrom BeautyCycle recycling program to reduce the impact of beauty packaging waste on the environment and help pave the way for a greener future.”

TerraCycle has inked a new partnership with Nordstrom to help divert hard-to-recycle beauty packaging waste from landfills through the Nordstrom BeautyCycle recycling program. Less than 2% of the 120 billion plastic packaging units produced annually by the beauty industry are being recycled, notes Nordstrom and TerraCycle. Beginning October 1, customers are invited to bring any brand of beauty packaging waste to the beauty department at participating Nordstrom locations and dispose of them in the provided TerraCycle Zero Waste Boxes. When full, the boxes will be returned to TerraCycle for processing and the collected waste will be cleaned, melted and remolded to make new products.

THE WHAT? US department store Nordstrom has partnered with TerraCycle to become the first major retailer to offer a nationwide recycling program for all brands of hard-to-recycle beauty packaging. THE DETAILS Beautycycle, as the program has been named, will enable shoppers to bring their empty beauty packaging to any Nordstrom store of Nordstrom Local service hub in the US. The department store is hoping to take back some 100 tons of hard-to-recycle beauty packaging by 2025. Nordstrom collection points will accept empty cosmetics, hair care or skin care packaging, regardless of brand or purchase location.

Spread across a variety of buildings and walls throughout the City of Trenton are large murals and paintings. As a creative city, Trenton is home to an array of artists that seek to share original artwork across the tight-knit community. One artist in particular uses his talent to capture individuals and their personalities with his massive portraits plastered around town. Dean “RAS” Innocenzi, graphic designer, videographer and artist, has been painting the town with these infamous portraits for over 12 years. The 37 year old, who never intended on pursuing this pathway, has exceeded even his own expectations when it comes to his artistic talents.

BEAUTYCYCLE, the first beauty take-back and recycling program accepting all brands of beauty packaging at a major retailer, launches today at Nordstrom. Each year, more than 120 billion units of plastic packaging are produced by the beauty industry, but less than nine percent gets recycled. Customers can now bring in their empty beauty product packaging to be recycled at any of Nordstrom's full-line stores or Nordstrom Local service hubs in the continental United States. Through this program, Nordstrom aims to take back 100 tons of hard-to-recycle beauty packaging by 2025 to ensure it's recycled. Many municipal recycling centers do not accept beauty materials and packaging, as they often contain a mix of materials that are not locally recyclable.

LLFlex, a company specialized in packaging materials and industrial laminate solutions, has acquired the assets of Hampden Papers, a paper converter specializing in material such as paper, foil and film. Related: TerraCycle & Nordstrom Partner for BeautyCycle Recycling Program This move serves to expand LLFlex's footprint in packaging niches and offer broad products in several sectors with the expertise of both companies. Hampden Papers is located in Holyoke, Massachusetts and LLFlex in Louisville, Kentucky. Although, with the acquisition, LLFLex has begun production at its new 73,500 square foot manufacturing facility in High Point, North Carolina which will significantly expand LLFlex’s output capacity as well as build upon the consumer packaging capacity and capabilities at LLFlex's Kentucky facility. "Hampden Paper's expertise and focus on quality are a perfect complement to LLFlex’s core strengths and proud heritage of supplying high quality, value-added packaging materials for consumer products," said Kelley Stearman, LLFlex packaging segment director. "We are excited about our expanded portfolio of product offerings and the packaging solutions that our new company will bring to customer." “Working closely with the owners and executives of Hampden Papers has allowed us to create this unique combination of assets, capabilities, expertise and unparalleled commitment to our customers,” said Victor Dixon, CEO of LLFlex. “We are very proud and excited to carry forward the Hampden legacy and history by combining these foundations with the growing portfolio of LLFlex packaging material solutions. The collective customers and broader market will notice immediate benefits by being able to source a wider range of products from one combined company that can better support brand owners, package designers, printers, converters and other related users of laminated and coated materials. Bringing the high-quality Hampden products together with the large scale and robust global supply chain of LLFlex will result in a myriad of benefits for our valued customers.”