Another PS product maker, Solo Cup Co. of Lake Forest, Ill., also launched a recycling initiative last month, teaming with TerraCycle Inc. of Trenton, N.J., which works with schools and nonprofits to recycle snack-food packaging.
Solo will make a 2-cent donation to schools, nonprofit groups or Keep America Beautiful for each trademarked Solo Squared PS drinking cup that is collected and sent, at Solo’s cost, to TerraCycle, which turns the recycled material into benches, playground equipment and other outdoor products.
Solo party cups can have a second life under a new national recycling initiative launched by Solo Cup Company.
The company announced it is joining forces with TerraCycle to create the Solo Cup Brigade - individuals, schools and non-profits that will collect used Solo Squared plastic cups and return them to TerraCycle for recycling. The recycled material will be used to make other items such as equipment for playgrounds, park benches and outdoor furniture.
For every Solo Squared cup received, 2 cents will be donated to Keep America Beautiful or the non-profit or school of the collecting Brigade member's choice.
I love
TerraCycle! From turning
Capri Sun and other drink pouches into purses to
recycling Solo plastic cups, TerraCycle makes it fun and easy to recycle items that are normally difficult to recycle.
Now TerraCycle has teamed up with
Old Navy for their
Flip-Flop Brigade! Old flip-flops can be recycled and upcycled into all sorts of things, although they usually wind up in landfills.
It's super easy to donate your old flip-flops. It doesn't matter if they're dirty, broken, or very worn -- all you have to do is stop by an Old Navy store and drop them in a box near the front of the store. After the program is over, Old Navy will send the boxes off to TerraCycle, where they will turn them into playgrounds! A few schools or community organizations who participate in TerraCycle Brigades will be the recipients of these upcycled playgrounds.
For example, Solo Cup recently launched a new recycling program for its Solo Squared Cups.
Solo has a manufacturing facility in Twin Falls, with 100 people on payroll.
Solo joined forces with one of the fastest-growing companies in the world: TerraCycle.
Founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, then a 20-year-old Princeton University freshman, TerraCycle began by producing organic fertilizer, packaging liquid worm poop in used soda bottles. It has engaged over 14 million people to collect waste in 11 countries. Some of those recycled goods are then turned into other products.
To keep garbage out of landfills, you can also visit Terracycle (www.terracycle.net). This Trenton-based company works with companies and consumers to recycle certain products. Like Gazelle, it pays people to do it.
For example, the site now has an offer to collect Solo disposable cups. People who collect them will get two cents per cup.
You can also get three cents each for yogurt containers and $2 each for old digital cameras. The site currently has 43 such offers.
Besides collecting recyclables, Terracycle also creates new products out of used packaging. It sells fencing made out of drink pouches, recycling bins made out of recycled plastic, and picture frames made from bicycle chains.
The site currently sells 206 products and they all look pretty nice. The insulated cooler made from Starburst wrappers is especially eye-catching. If you want to help the Earth and a local company at the same time, give Terracycle a try.
That red cup from Friday night is going from the beer pong table to the playground as a result of a new initiative from Solo Cup Company.
Solo Cup has joined forces with TerraCycle, Inc., an international upcycling company that takes difficult-to-recycle items and turns them into affordable, eco-friendly products.
The "Solo Cup Brigade" is an initiative that takes the iconic red party cups and upcycles them into playground materials, park benches, and other outdoor furniture by converting the waste into new products of higher environmental value.
"The partnership started with TerraCycle to create a recycling program for our square cups," said Kim Frankovich, vice president for sustainability for Solo Cup. "We wanted to find an avenue to actually get our cups recycled as well as create an incentive for those to do so."
The idea for this project emerged when consumers asked Solo how they can go about recycling a product that most community curbside recycling programs do not accept, according to Frankovich.
Solo Cup Company announced it is joining forces with TerraCycle(R), Inc. to recycle its Solo Squared(R) party cups. Through the Solo Cup Brigade(R), individuals, schools and non-profits can collect used Solo Squared plastic cups and return them to TerraCycle where they will be recycled into plastic that will be used to make other items such as equipment for playgrounds, park benches and outdoor furniture.
As part of the Keep America Beautiful- Great America Clean Up event today in New York City's Times Square, Solo announced it is joining forces with TerraCycle to create the 'Solo Cup Brigade' -- individuals, schools and non-profits that will collect used Solo Squared plastic cups and return them to TerraCycle for recycling. The recycled material will be used to make other items such as equipment for playgrounds, park benches and outdoor furniture.
You’ve sipped from it at fine events, drank from it at backyard barbecues and probably guzzled from it in your college days. I’m talking about Solo red cup. The problem with this iconic beverage dispenser is that the number 6 polystyrene plastic is often hard to recycle in many U.S. communities.
Not anymore!
On Thursday, at the Keep America Beautiful Great American Clean Up
event in New York City , Solo Cup Co. and TerraCycle announced that they have banned together to create the
Solo Cup Brigade, a disposal solution for the millions of single-use cups sold each year.
