As adorable as they are, household pets can have serious impacts on the environment. Did you know that we landfill nearly 2 million tons of cat litter annually, and that one dog can have double the carbon footprint of an SUV driving 10,000 miles?
Mary’s Tack and Feed now carries Open Farm Dog Food, the first Humane Certified Dog Food by Humane Farm Animal Care standards. Open Farm is a family run business that sources only the highest quality ingredients from local suppliers they know and trust.
Canadian import Open Farm dog food continues to up the ante; its plastic packaging is now nationally recyclable in the U.S. through TerraCycle, a Trenton, N.J.-based recycler and manufacturer of consumer goods from traditionally non recyclable waste.
Open Farm, the first ethically raised and sourced pet food, is making its packaging nationally recyclable through a program with
TerraCycle. After launching in Canada in 2014, Open Farm is now available in U.S. pet stores nationwide and the plastic bags are recyclable through TerraCycle. Open Farm is also partnering with TerraCycle Canada to operate a similar program.
Puretergent is also working to develop a method for customers to return the pouch to the manufacturers via mail.TerraCycle, a startup based in Trenton, NJ also encourages customers to send in packaging through its host of partnerships and incentives.