While Greeneration focuses on Indonesia’s environment, TerraCycle (terracycle.com) is a US green company that aims to “eliminate the idea of waste” in the US. Through its Brigade program, people can make a list of waste — from food, office supplies and personal products — that they want to get rid of.
After receiving the list, TerraCycle will then send a shipping label to their customers’ houses in the US. With the label, customers can ship their trash to TerraCycle.
Even though giving away your waste may seems like a simple act, it is a step toward green living.
Moreover, TerraCycle will instantly reward you with points, which can later be redeemed for money to subsidize non-profit organizations or even your school.
However, the cycle does not end with just sending away your trash.
The company will design simple to sophisticated products that are made from the trash it collects and sells them in retailers as well as its website — turning the waste into cash.
Goal is to expand an effort that has so far diverted 70,000 pounds of waste from landfills
To provide cleanrooms and laboratories with effective solutions to mitigate waste and enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability efforts, Kimberly-Clark Professional has introduced RightCycle – the first large-scale recycling effort for nontraditional cleanroom waste.
"Our customers have ambitious sustainability goals, yet often struggle with where and how to get started," said Randy Kates , Director, Global Scientific Business, Kimberly-Clark Professional. "We believe the most significant and enduring change occurs when team members are actively engaged in the solution. Our innovative RightCycle program offers a powerful and easy way for customers to exceed their solid waste reduction goals, while helping to make their workplaces healthier, safer and more productive."
The program takes recycling to a new level – beyond downcycling, upcycling and other approaches. It makes it easy to recycle previously hard-to-recycle items like cleanroom garments, gloves, hoods, boot covers and hairnets. Items are deposited in either a RightCycle collection box or in the client's own boxes. Full boxes are assembled onto pallets and picked up by Kimberly-Clark Professional recycling partner TerraCycle. After the products are collected, they are turned into raw materials and used to create useful, eco-friendly consumer products, such as plastic Adirondack chairs and benches, bulk plastics and other items.
Kimberly-Clark Professional is a global leader in contamination control solutions for cleanrooms and laboratories. It first announced its single-use garment recycling program in 2011 and completed successful pilots of a nitrile glove recycling program in 2012, which is now available nationwide. Since the recycling efforts began, participating cleanrooms and laboratories have diverted 70,000 pounds of garment, glove and other waste from landfills via the Kimberly-Clark Professional recycling programs. Life Technologies Corporation, a leading global life sciences company, is on track to recycle five tons of gloves in the first year.
The disposal of solid waste from manufacturing operations poses considerable challenges for businesses and society. Landfill options are becoming more limited and waste disposal costs continue to rise. In 2011, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the parent company for Kimberly-Clark Professional, announced it would be sending zero manufacturing waste to landfills by 2015. Since 2000, the company's Global Nonwovens Division, which develops and manufactures fabrics and materials used to create products such as protective apparel and face masks, has diverted more than 99 percent of its manufacturing waste from landfills. For more information about Kimberly-Clark's corporate sustainability goals visit:
http://www.kimberly-clark.com/sustainability.aspx
For more information about the RightCycle program and other Kimberly-Clark Professional sustainability programs visit,
www.kimtech.com/reducetoday or call
770-587-7615.
El concurso "Grupo Verde" ha finalizado ya.
Tras más de siete meses, creemos que se ha conseguido el objetivo propuesto que no era otro que el de fomentar la conciencia medioambietal y solidaria. Así, con los diferentes materiales recogidos se han apoyado diversas campañas.
El Instituto San Blas de Aracena recicla sus instrumentos de escritura con un fin solidario
Alumnos del centro recogen material escolar usado para reunir dinero para Ibermed
