Over 200 schools across the country are participating in a nationwide recycling programme run by innovative recycling company TerraCycle to save wrappers from landfill and fundraise towards a local project. TerraCycle’s national programmes repurpose non-recyclable waste materials through volunteer “Brigades.”
Wondering what to do with your chocolate wrappers left over from Easter?
Westbrook School is participating in a nationwide programme collecting confectionery wrappers and recycling them to help the environment and raise money for school projects.
Kiwis will soon be able to recycle toothbrushes and coffee capsules thanks to the local expansion of global trash-to-treasure company TerraCycle
The "Google of Garbage' is in the country, hoping to transform the way we recycle.
Tom Szaky started up TerraCycle, a worldwide waste programme which aims to recycle non-recyclable items including toothbrushes, cleaning products and even cigarettes.
New Jersey-based TerraCycle, which collects non-recyclable, or difficult-to-recycle, waste, has partnered with major corporation Mondelez International, which owns Cadbury, to launch a recycling waste campaign on the Asian market.
A fast-growing global company which salvages non-recyclable waste items and turns them into new products is about to be launched in New Zealand.
TerraCycle, which was founded in 2001 and operates in 23 countries, will kick off in New Zealand today.
The business works with major brands to sponsor free collection programmes for rubbish such as cigarette butts, dirty nappies and chewing gum, which would otherwise end up in landfill.
A fast-growing global company which salvages non-recyclable waste items and turns them into new products is about to be launched in New Zealand.
TerraCycle, which was founded in 2001 and operates in 23 countries, will kick off in New Zealand today.
The business works with major brands around the world to sponsor free collection programmes for rubbish such as cigarette butts, dirty nappies and chewing gum, which would otherwise end up in landfill.
Its New Zealand arm will focus on gathering confectionery wrappers by getting members of the public to send them to collection points by freepost.
For every wrapper returned, TerraCycle will donate 2c to the school or charity of the collector's choice.
Founder and chief executive Tom Szaky said launching TerraCycle in New Zealand was the first step in an aggressive expansion into the Asian region.
"New Zealand makes a lot of sense because the people have a deep care for the environment. It's somewhere we can build a good base from and then expand into other markets from there."
TerraCycle has partnered with Cadbury owner Mondelez, which is funding the local platform for collecting lolly wrappers from the public. Waste will be stored in a factory until there is enough to be sent on for cleaning and recycling into new products.
TerraCycle provides the infrastructure but owns none of the manufacturing equipment.
Mr Szaky, who is considered a world leader in eco-capitalism, said his sights were set on finding new partners in New Zealand who would take ownership of the different types of waste they produced.
The 31-year old is visiting New Zealand next week and wants to spend his time meeting potential partners, including one in the tobacco industry
"Our goal is to grow this programme to collect even more waste. It just gets bigger and bigger every year."
TerraCycle typically works with 20 to 30 partners in each country. Brands that have signed up globally include Kraft Foods, Nestle, Mars and L'Oreal.
Kiwis are used to throwing their candy wrappers straight into the trash, but TerraCycle – which launches in New Zealand today – wants to change that habit. The company, which specialises in recycling materials normally just thrown in the trash, already operates in 23 other countries – including the UK and Canada – and sees New Zealand as a great place to launch an assault on the Asian market.
Embalagens laminadas de salgadinhos, escovas de dente e canetas usadas e até gomas de mascar e bitucas de cigarro. Encontrar uma destinação ambientalmente correta para resíduos que ninguém faz questão de reciclar - e fazer com que eles retornem, como matéria-prima, à indústria - tornou-se o desafio de empresas que se especializaram em lidar com resíduosque pareciam fadados a repousar eternamente nos aterros sanitários.
In 2012, TerraCycle had $15 million in sales with operations in 22 countries, primarily in North and South America as well as in Europe and a little bit of the Middle East. A few months ago, we embarked on opening in our 23rd market, Australia.
