Tom Szaky, 31, ist so etwas wie der grüne Shooting-Star der USA. Als Pionier der Wiederverwertung hat er als einer der ersten mit seinem 2001 gegründeten Startup TerraCycle die Amerikaner für das Recycling begeistert. Doch auch in Deutschland, dem führenden Land in Sachen Recycling, stehen alle Zeichen auf Erfolgskurs.
PORTLAND, Ore. - The 2012 Akron Marathon, presented by Time Warner Cable, has earned certification from the Council for Responsible Sport for efforts to reduce the event's environmental footprint and increase its social impact. The Akron Marathon's sustainability program is titled Environmental Endurance.
Local environmental awareness nonprofit Experience Green will move its annual Earth Day celebrations from Hilton Head Island to Bluffton this month.
Instead of taking place at Shelter Cove Community Park on Hilton Head as it did the last two years, the third annual celebration will be at Carson Cottages on Calhoun Street in Old Town. The festivities -- which include cooking demonstrations, live music and an obstacle course -- will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 27. Admission is free.
Abby Wirth, program manager for Experience Green, said the organization moved the celebration to Bluffton to try to expand its reach.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State has collected more than 10,000 candy wrappers during its 2012–2013 season. Through an innovative recycling program, that translates into more than 400 free meals for hungry Americans.
Thanks to a TerraCycle program called the Candy Wrapper Brigade, which awards points for each wrapper collected, the Center for the Performing Arts is able to provide 415 meals through Feeding America. The charity, with a mission to provide nourishment to America’s hungry, uses a nationwide network of member food banks.
PORTLAND, Ore. - The 2012 Akron Marathon, presented by Time Warner Cable, has earned certification from the Council for Responsible Sport for efforts to reduce the event's environmental footprint and increase its social impact. The Akron Marathon's sustainability program is titled Environmental Endurance.
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Michigan Green Schools Committee Coordinator for EACA. With the steadfast support of Principal Leonard she continues to battle idling. She also established schoolwide in-classroom paper and plastic recycling. Every month she personally sorts hundreds of cheese wrappers and juice pouches for
Terracycle, an upcycling service that pays for school’s trash, which they turn into new items like backpacks and birdfeeders. So far the school has earned about $200 that they plan to use for a wildlife garden.
Marit Villmo fra Dal ble en av de første i Akershus som hjalp å gi dette TASSIMO-avfallet nytt liv.“Jeg er opptatt av miljøet, og prøver å leve så miljøvennlig som jeg kan i det daglige.” ”Det er enkelt å bestille forsendelsesetikett på nett og ‘bli kvitt’ kapslene kostnadsfritt, og det er kjempefint at det også blir gitt penger til til veldedige formål. Selv kunne jeg tenke meg å bidra med donasjoner til UNICEF eller Leger Uten Grenser.”
BOULDER - Alfalfa's Market and the nonprofit Center for ReSource Conservation are among the local companies and groups that have plans to celebrate Earth Day, Monday, April 22.
Boulder-based Alfalfa's plans to kick off a beefed-up recycling program on Wednesday, April 17, in honor of Earth Day, the company said in a press statement. Customers can recycle used baby food pouches, Tom's of Maine personal care items and No. 4 plastic bags at the store under the new program. Alfalfa's will send the items to Terracycle, based in Trenton, New Jersey, to be made into new plastic items such as park benches, backpacks and tote bags.
Natural and organic foods retailer
Alfalfa’s Market will kick off its second B’Earthday celebration with an enhanced recycling program.
Beginning April 17, Alfalfa’s will allow customers to deposit used baby food pouches, Tom’s of Maine personal care items, and No. 4 plastic bags at the store. The grocer will send these items to Terracycle where they will be recycled and made into new plastic items, such as park benches, backpacks and tote bags.
It’s been said over and over again: reduce, reuse and recycle in order to help Mother Earth. But how many of us actually heed this call and live our lives consciously reducing, reusing and recycling? Not many, that’s for sure. Good thing that people like Tom Szaky not only take up the environmental battle cry with a passion, but turn it into a useful enterprise that shows the rest of the world just how waste elimination can easily be handled. Terracycle, Szaky’s social enterprise, is a prime example of literally turning trash into cash.
