Akron, Ohio – The 2012 Akron Marathon, presented by Time Warner Cable, has earned certification from the Council for Responsible Sport for efforts to reduce the event’s environmental footprint and increase its social impact. The Akron Marathon’s sustainability program is titled Environmental Endurance. “The Akron Marathon’s list of accomplishments is long, as is its commitment to the event’s mission of promoting health and fitness, stimulating the local economy, galvanizing the community and benefiting charitable organizations,” said Keith Peters, executive director of the Council for Responsible Sport.

While not going to the lengths of sharing payroll and stock-option details like SumAll does, recycling company TerraCycle also takes an unguarded approach with its employees. Albe Zakes, TerraCycle's global vice president of communication, believes transparency aligns with the company's socially responsible beliefs, and said it has proved a strong motivating tool.

In addition, the Riverkeeper Sweep is made possible through cooperative partnerships with dozens of municipalities, state agencies, clubs, organizations, scout groups, businesses and individuals who help to organize individual events. We are pleased to partner with TerraCycle, which will provide waste collection for some of the hard-to-recycle materials collected during the Sweep; and Green Guru Network, a media sponsor. Information about local partnerships and participants is available on request.

The Trust for Public Land, Garnier—a subsidiary of L’Oreal, USA—and the City of Newark’s Office of Sustainability and  its Department of Neighborhood Services have announced the installation of 54 community recycling containers at Nat Turner, Jesse Allen, and Mildred Helms parks.

“Vote early! Vote often!” is the old joke about Chicago politics but it is actually the new way to win contests online. The Spencer-Van Etten Middle School Greenhouse Program made a three-minute educational video on the recycling program they run. The students produced and directed the video under the category, “Collect, Store, and Ship.” It shows exactly how recycling takes place in the middle school. The process takes considerable time, so the students were very excited to learn that their video was chosen as one of six finalists in the first-ever TerraCycle Green Globes contest.

Hearts' Kickstarter campaign has officially launched today! Their exclusively designed “You’ve Got Mail Bag” was co-created by Hearts & (@Terracycle). It is the perfect example of style with a purpose. The materials utilized were once used for delivering mail and saving lives. Can you guess what they are? A mailbag and upcycled seatbelts are cleverly transformed into a functional laptop case!

We’ve all heard it – “save the planet”, “go green”, “reduce, reuse, recycle.”  Here’s an easy way to do just that and potentially earn money for your group or charity through TerraCycle.

Ohio's Akron Marathon has earned certification from the The Council for Responsible Sport for its efforts to lower the race’s environmental footprint. The race joins a small but growing number of sporting events to be officially recognized for their eco-friendly and community-building efforts. The Council for Responsible Sport sets environmental and social responsibility benchmarks races can meet to earn certification. There are four levels, from certified, which Akron received, to evergreen. With Akron’s “certified” award, it became the 50th event to receive the standard since the council launched its certification program in 2008.

Organizers of the Living Local Expo announce that Albe Zakes, the global vice president of TerraCycle, is one of the featured speakers at the sixth annual Expo, which will be held from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 23 in the Commons at Lawrence High School, located at 2525 Princeton Pike. Zakes will talk at 12:30 p.m. about how TerraCycle is able to collect non-recyclable garbage from consumer packaging and "upcycle" it into new products. TerraCycle currently partners with a number of brands to do this, including P&G, Capri-Sun, Target, and Frito-Lay.

Kids and Company, an after-school program for elementary students who need a safe, supervised, place after school, has been recycling juice boxes through Terracycle for the past few years and received the money from recycling. The donation will provide approximately 175 food packs to elementary-aged students in Bemidji. Backpack Buddies is registered Feeding America program that provides food packs for children experiencing severe hunger. The program helps provide food for those children on weekends and school breaks since schools do not.