But other companies are catching this green fire. The outdoor-outfitting company Patagonia, for example, says any old item bought from Patagonia can be returned for recycling into new fiber or fabric; the company claims to have taken in 45 tons of clothing for recycling – and from this, it has made 34 tons into new clothes. French shampoo-maker Garnier began partnering with the nonprofit Terracycle to offer free collection and recycling of all personal-care and beauty products; bags filled with shampoo bottles could be sent by UPS with Garnier picking up the tab.
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Do you have a sustainability officer yet? You might need one. It’s probably even more likely that your customers will have one, and you will have to pay attention to them if you want to continue to supply them with plastic parts or products.
Within the last few years, the position of Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) has appeared at a wide range of companies, from big-box retailers and brand owners to smaller privately owned suppliers of film and bottles. And this is no passing fancy. These executive appointments suggest that the greening of America will continue to influence the way plastics processors do business in the future.
Happy 2012! Today's the first TerraCycle Tuesday of the New Year. Today we'll focus on the Candy Wrapper Brigade.
Much of this change is being fueled by the growing influence of social media, which allows a company to make its green efforts more transparent and creates a two-way conversation. Telling people you’re environmentally friendly isn’t good enough anymore; you have to have to discuss it with them and engage.
Asmo and Charlotte look like your run-of-the-mill, quarter-ton pink pigs who spend their days snorting and eagerly awaiting their next meal.
But they're doing their part to help the environment by taking part in a campaign by students at West Hempfield Middle School to generate as little trash as possible.
The pigs from Logan Family Farms in Hempfield are fed food scraps left over from the lunches of the middle-schoolers, who adopted them in November.
Principal Aaron Steinly recently started taking a recycling container of salad, orange peels, half-eaten apples and other fruits and vegetables to the farm. He estimates the school nets about 125 pounds of food scraps weekly for the pigs, whose daily diet typically consists of about 4 pounds of grain.
Recycled Stocking
The kids will dig it if you change up your mantel with this repurposed Capri Sun wrapper stocking from TerraCycle. It’s 14″ tall. dwellsmart.com, terracycle.com
Don't Blow a Circuit
It won’t process your WORD document, but these coasters made from real circuit boards from TerraCycle will protect your coffee tables and keep more waste out of the landfills. dwellsmart.com
Students and staff at Bain Elementary School raised more than $3,700 for the school through the TerraCycling program.
The program allows schools to collect items like juice pouches, wrappers, empty glue sticks and writing instruments and submit them for recycling. The school collected more than 114,000 juice pouches and more than 19,000 chip bags to earn $3,749.38.
To learn more about the program, visit www.terracycle.net.
This is the third entry in "Full Circle," a series that will be profiling companies and organizations that offer biodegradable and recyclable products or services -- both in the New York City area and beyond.
Albe Zakes will admit it. While in school at the University of Colorado, he was a “frustrated environmentalist.”
“I felt like too many environmental non-profits [organizations] refused to work with major companies,” he said. “It was always petition, letter-write, protest, and picket instead of coming to the board room table and trying to work with them.”
Do you have a sustainability officer yet? You might need one. It’s probably even more likely that your customers will have one, and you will have to pay attention to them if you want to continue to supply them with plastic parts or products.
Within the last few years, the position of Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) has appeared at a wide range of companies, from big-box retailers and brand owners to smaller privately owned suppliers of film and bottles. And this is no passing fancy. These executive appointments suggest that the greening of America will continue to influence the way plastics processors do business in the future.
