Sam Peters and Lesa Snook from Wiltshire collect “hard-to-recycle” items which aren’t accepted by the local council and send them to TerraCycle for recycling.
For each item they send, they receive a monetary reward which they can donate to the charity of their choice.
A woman from Reading has saved five million pieces of waste from landfill and incineration.
Ali Chaney, from Three Miles Cross, has collected Marigold gloves, sweet wrappers and beauty products over nine years which can’t be recycled by the council.
She sends to TerraCycle to be processed and turned into picnic tables, outdoor furniture, and lumber for use in construction.
A North Somerset School has pledged to accept hard-to-recycle plastics from residents to prevent them from going to landfill sites.
Shipham First School has signed up to a project managed by recycling company, TerraCycle which will award points to be later converted into money for the school.
FOLLOWING in the footsteps of climate activist Greta Thunberg, Somerset school children are taking action on climate change.
Collecting the community's "hard-to-recycle" waste, Shipham First School on the western edge of the Mendip Hills, is hoping to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill.
FOLLOWING in the footsteps of climate activist Greta Thunberg, Somerset school children are taking action on climate change.
Collecting the community's "hard-to-recycle" waste, Shipham First School on the western edge of the Mendip Hills, is hoping to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill.
