Does your company need a zero-waste solution for safety equipment and protective gear? Use the Zero Waste Box to recycle safety products such as masks, disposable garments, gloves, hair nets and shoe covers. Ship your recycled waste to TerraCycle. The collected waste is mechanically and/or manually separated into fibers and plastics. The fibers are recycled or composted, and the plastics undergo extrusion and pelletization to be molded into new recycled plastic products.

Several tons of ear plugs, beard nets, hair nets, gloves, safety glasses and other typically “unrecyclable” safety and protective gear have found a useful afterlife in TerraCycle’s Zero Waste Box program. Northstar Recycling was one of the first companies to start offering this Safety Equipment and Protective Gear Zero Waste Box to its North American customers when the solution was rolled out two years ago.