RUMSON, NJ - New Jersey based TerraCycle manufactures more than fifty products made from non-recyclable waste materials. Affordable, eco-friendly items such as shower curtains, purses and kites made from juice drink pouches and bulletin boards made from wine corks are sold in major retailers such as Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Office Max, Petco and Whole Foods Markets. The company has been featured on a National Geographic television program, (Garbage Moguls) won national awards and obtained high praise for its environmentally friendly products and for keeping hundreds of tons of garbage out of landfills. But, how do they amass the huge amount of materials needed to make their products? This is where the TerraCycle Brigades come in. The Brigades are part of a national program that pays school groups and non-profits to collect the items needed by TerraCycle to make its products.
SOUTHBOROUGH, MA, October 20 – The teachers at the Woodward Memorial School used to see a lot of Capri Sun drink pouches get thrown away. Once they signed up to recycle them through a company called TerraCycle, the school began earning two cents for every one of those pouches and became part of a nationwide effort that has just reached an impressive milestone of keeping 50 million pouches out of landfills. In addition, TerraCycle, which makes affordable, eco-friendly products from packaging waste, and Capri Sun have paid one million dollars to schools and non-profits in return for the recycled drink pouches.
TerraCycle have just joined forces with Danone to help reduce landfill. What’s more you can raise money for charity or for a school by collecting Danone yoghurt pots. Terracycle will upcycle and recycle your collected waste materials into new products. Take a look at the TerraCycle site to see the range of products you can buy.
Well I have read and heard some pretty awesome things about Terra Cycle so when I had the opportunity to share about them and check out one of their products I got really excited!!
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http://www.terracycle.net/> makes affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials. With over 50 products available at major retailers like Walmart, Target, The Home Depot, OfficeMax, Petco and Whole Foods Market, TerraCycle is one of the fastest growing eco-friendly manufacturers in the world. Our hope is to eliminate the idea of waste by finding innovative, unique uses for materials others deem garbage.
We here the words 'reduce, reuse, recycle' a lot when it comes to cleaning our our environment and cutting down on waste in our landfills but have you thought much about the word 'upcycle'? To ucpcycle an item would be to use the product again in a totally different way than it was originally used. Terracycle <
http://www.terracycle.net/> has found a ton of ways to take our trash and recyclables and make them into something new. The great thing about this company is that YOU can get involved, too! Here is a little bit about Terracycle from their website:
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BRF Brasil Foods acaba de oficializar uma parceria com a
TerraCycle, líder global na coleta e reuso de resíduos pós-consumo, para um programa de
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Terracycle have started a new programme for schools where all money raised through it goes to the school. It also teaches children about social responsibility and encourages them to think about their own impact on the environment.
We know not every blue box accepts every piece of waste that a normal household generates so we were excited to hear about
TerraCycle's initiatives to reuse more items that normally would just go to landfill. The 28-year-old Canadian founder and president
Tom Szaky has been quoted that there is no such thing as garbage and he means it. TerraCycle is working with community groups and schools to collect unwanted old yogourt cups, plastic bottles and other items and paying them a small amount of money that is donated to charity.
