La empresa TerraCycle ha creado el primer programa de reciclado de colillas de cigarrillos. Su presidente lo presentó inicialmente en Canadá, luego en los EE.UU. y más tarde en España.

A Pinecrest High School recycling club is striving to make Moore County a little greener. Aayushi Patel, a school senior and president of the Student Environmental Association, said her group has recently initiated a pair of projects that involve both her school and the international community. "Our biggest project at this time is the TerraCycle company's chip bag recycling competition, which is being held at Pinecrest for teachers and students to participate together to collect the highest amount of used chip bags," she said. "The TerraCycle company will then collect the bags for recycling." Patel said that 21 third-period classes will participate, with the winning class awarded a pizza party by Mellow Mushroom. Patel said the group collected 21,646 chip bags during the semester. "Our club mission is to spread awareness for recycling chip bags so that we have less trash occupying landfills," she said. "To include the Sandhills community into our recycling initiative, we have partnered with the Subway restaurants at Pinecrest Plaza and at Town and Country Shopping Center to put a recycling bin at their stores for Frito-Lay chip bags."

“It’s disgusting and wasteful, so I wanted to do something about it,” Stoner says. No, she’s not going to spend her off-duty time preaching about the evils of smoking and trying to get people to quit. Accepting that smoking will never be fully eradicated, she’d like to do something about all of those cigarette butts, which, contrary to popular belief, are not biodegradable. So Stoner, 33, is distributing metal coffee cans to willing restaurants and bars to fill with butts and other cigarette-related trash before sending it all off to New Jersey-based TerraCycle, which is internationally known for finding new uses for hard-to-recycle materials. Servers can now end their shifts by emptying ashtrays into her cans rather than into the trash. Already, The Hutch’s neighbor, American Dream Pizza, as well as The Lodge Bar & Grill near Southeast 66th Avenue and Powell Boulevard, and Patti’s Deli in Gresham have agreed to participate. TerraCycle will rework waste collected through the “cigarette brigade” into a variety of industrial products, such as plastic pallets, and the company will compost any remaining tobacco. Stoner heard about TerraCycle while collecting Capri Sun pouches to help raise funds for Woodmere Elementary School in Southeast Portland, where her son is in kindergarden. The key to her success in collecting juice pouches was enlisting the support of Capri Sun drinkers, and she expects smokers’ cooperation will be essential to her latest campaign. Servers might have time to empty ashtrays into cans, she says, but they’re not about to search gutters for extra butts.

Earth Shepherd Environmental Group of Absegami High School conducted its first fundraiser over the fall, collecting over 100 flip-flops to be recycled, according to Earth Shepherd President Jamie Infanti.   The group teamed up with the Smithville and Reeds Road elementary schools in the collection effort. According to Infanti, the flip-flops will be recycled by TerraCycle Inc. into items such as trash bins, flooring and park benches.   TerraCycle is a national recycling group that specializes in recycling previously non-recyclable material or material that is hard to recycle. It was founded in 2001 by Pirnceton University freshman Tom Szaky.   “I saw a sign for the TerraCycle flip-flop recycling program at an Old Navy store and thought it would be a fun and different way to recycle and to encourage other people to do the same,” said Infanti, a 16-year-old sophomore at Absegami who started the Earth Shepherd group this year. “(The flip flop drive) seemed like something that would be easy for people to do and something that people would respond to.”

  Earth Shepherd Environmental Group of Absegami High School conducted its first fundraiser over the fall, collecting over 100 flip-flop to be recycled, according to Earth Shepherd President Jamie Infanti. The group teamed up with the Smithville and Reeds Road elementary schools in the collection effort. According to Infanti, the flip-flops will be recycled by TerraCycle Inc. into items such as trash bins, flooring and park benches.

Si le greenwashing (1) est encore présent, certaines marques de cosmétiques et de parfums ont choisi de lancer des initiatives concrètes en faveur de l’environnement.

The Earth Shepherd Environmental Group of Absegami High School recently conducted a successful flip-flop recycling program. Participating schools were Smithville Elementary and Reeds Road elementary schools and Absegami. The three schools collected more than 100 pairs of flip-flops over a two week period. The flip-flops will be recycled by TerraCycle Inc. They will be made into things such as trash bins, flooring and park benches. Earth Shepherd was just started at Absegami in 2012-2013 and this was its first recycling drive. The group has been involved in cleanups and other school activities. “We were impressed by how enthusiastic the two elementary schools were for helping us get started on one of our first major projects,” Earth Shepherd founder and President Jamie Infanti said. “Our hope is that these drives will help teach elementary school students the importance of recycling, and each year we will gain more and more momentum throughout."

Collectez des déchets, envoyez-les à TerraCycle et faites gagner de l’argent à l’association de votre choix. Une fois les déchets collectés, TerraCycle se charge de leur donner une deuxième vie. L’idée paraît simple, il a pourtant fallu des années au pionnier Tom Szaky et son camarade Jon Beyer pour que leur projet prenne forme !

En este segundo trimestre pondremos toda nuestra fuerza en el Reciclaje en el colegio. En el área de reciclado del primer piso hemos colocado estos bidones, con los siguientes objetivos, además del reciclaje en sí:

Le savon de Marseille est connu pour ses caractéristiques écologiques et cosmétiques. Souvent utilisé pour laver le linge, il a pourtant d'autres utilités ménagères peu connues. Zoom sur les autres usages du savon de Marseille.