This spring, the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) will become a TerraCycle collection site, joining thousands of other organizations around the world in diverting waste from landfills.
Rethinking what is trash is key to TerraCycling. TerraCycling is a concept that is less then 10 years old but has spread to more than 20 different countries and is now rooted and growing in the local Lincoln County community.
TerraCycle accepts waste that is harder to categorize and items you probably didn’t realize you could recycle, such as old make-up containers, cheese packaging, shampoo bottles, etc. The lists of things you can recycle is quite extensive and really makes a difference in the amount of “trash” you throw away each month.
Terracycle, the local company that “upcycles” conventionally not-recyclable materials into new and useful products (like kites, pencil cases, and speakers), is well known to many Princeton residents, but did you know how easy it is to save commonly used plastics from the landfill (and from finding their way into our water, food, and air) while benefitting local schools?
Working together with over 110 brands globally and 30 million people in 22 countries,
TerraCycle and its supporters collect non-recyclable, post-consumer waste to upcycle and recycle. Today, TerraCycle is considered a leader in waste collection, repurposing it into innovative materials and products. With over 40 billion packages with the TerraCycle logo on it, they’ve diverted over 2.5 billion units of waste from landfills around the globe
With our TerraCycle brigade, we really wanted to help him out and get some great new equipment that he could use to engage the kids even more, keeping them active as part of developing a healthy lifestyle. We also just really wanted to be able to give something fun to the kids! So we got right to work. We worked things out with the principal. Beth and I put together a collection box for the pouch drinks. We wrapped it in silver wrapping paper so that it even sort of looks like a big pouch drink! We taped some different brands of pouch drinks, including Capri Sun, to the top so that students would know what to put inside.
Morgan and her peers help to preserve the earth through the Fort Campbell, Ky., school’s new recycling program.
Launched in September, Wassom has partnered with TerraCycle, an international upcycling and recycling company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and repurposes the material into affordable, innovative products, according to
terracycle.com.
I recently discovered a site called
Terracycle which has lots of awesome goodies that are made from everyday items that are harder to recycle such as chip bags and even billboards!
Tom Szaky: Founder and CEO of TerraCycle, which makes consumer products from post-consumer waste primarily collected in U.S. schools and through 2.6 million members of his “trash brigades.” Capri Sun juice pouches become pencil cases, circuit boards become picture frames and clocks, and Oreo cookie wrappers morph into kites.
Launched in September, Wassom has partnered with TerraCycle, an international upcycling and recycling company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and repurposes the material into affordable, innovative products, according to
terracycle.com.
