De nombreux objets sont récoltés pour en fabriquer de nouveaux .

Johnston students helped raise more than $7 million for charity through the TerraCycle Brigade Program.

Far Hills Country Day School (FHCDS) is proud to announce that Priscilla Hayes, Director of Sustainability for the school, has won the Garden State Green Award sponsored by Kean University. The Garden State Green Award honors individuals and organizations that have made a significant contribution to the environment through preservation, reclamation or conservation activities; advocacy and pursuit of ‘green’ lifestyles or business practices; support or development of green/sustainable energy or energy conservation. Honorees have brought attention to a problem, pursued solutions, or inspired action and must have demonstrated that we can “Save the Planet, One Person at a Time.”

En poco tiempo puede que la silla en la que te sientes a tomar el sol esté fabricada a partir de colillas de cigarrillo. Este es el objetivo de la empresa norteamericana  TerraCycle que ha lanzado el primer programa de reciclado de colillas.

There’s really little need to toss things out these days — at least, not in the manner to which we’re accustomed. It’s part of a shift in policies, practices and products that has made it much easier than it used to be to achieve a tiny carbon footprint. “There are so many fantastic changes, in even the last five years,” said Kay McKeen, founder and executive director of the DuPage County nonprofit School and Community Assistance for Recycling and Composting Education.

A company rooted in worm compost and the resulting organic fertilizer, Trenton’s TerraCycle started in 2001 as an enterprise thought up by Princeton University freshman Tom Szaky. Now, it’s a multi-million dollar waste-eliminating business that operates across the U.S. and in 22 countries around the world. While sales of the organic fertilizer ignited the company, it’s the free recycling program TerraCycle developed that really helped it take off. “Since 2007, when we first launched the program, we have collected 2.5 billion pieces of garbage,” says Albe Zakes, global vice president of communication for TerraCycle.