Des de l'Ampa col·laborem amb la iniciativa d'una mare de l'escola i d'algun mestre en la recollida de retoladors i bolígrafs per al seu reciclatge. S'han col·locat  capses o contenidors a les classes per posar-hi els bolis reciclats i els pares que vulgueu podeu portar els vostres retoladors i bolis de casa al despatx de l'Ampa, on també els recollirem.

Balfour Beatty Communities is participating in the TerraCycle program to help keep waste out of the landfills and support a good cause. You can help this effort by bringing new life to your old items. Let’s “upcycle” your old shoes, ink jet cartridges, cell phones and smart phones, plastic bottles and cans. Drop them at the community center and we will do the rest. The proceeds from each item will help the The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance of Phoenix. Questions/Suggestions?

Frugal and clean ways to use and recycle all that makeup and moisturizer!

Having a lot of beauty products is fun. But there's a responsibility that comes with that, which includes begin green. I feel I must test samples before I can recommend anything. Plus, there's the issue of green beauty — where does it all go afterward? Because really, shouldn't every day be Earth Day? I have a very very frugal and thrifty streak, and I hate throwing anything away when there's even just a smidge left. It just seems wasteful to me and I dislike waste. But that leads to a lot of stuff in every cabinet, closet and corner of my abode. For Earth Day Week, I am determined to make a little more room, and get some feng shui going in the beauty department. Not to mention streamline! I have 12 foundations in my repertoire right now! That's ridiculous. Although, I do use a lot of them... So, a quick look at some money-saving strategies and green routines to get into: 9. Packaging: Let's face it, beauty products are over packaged. Look for green beauty options such as: Physicians Formula cosmetics come in recycled & recyclable cardboard-type packaging. I did have one fall apart in my purse — anything that goes in there takes a beating - but I still used it. You can use some jars for jewelry, other left over makeup (see #3) or container for kids paints but in the end you're still left with the stuff. I don't know about you, but that makes me feel massively guilty, so... The BEST Discovery: A points program for recycling beauty products! TerraCycle is a company that specializes in recycling harder-to-recycle goods, so the you don't have to worry.  Lotsof beauty products are accepted (not: hair spray cans, polish remover, nail polish bottles). Bellasugar says:

Products are then upcycled to build eco-friendly playgrounds throughout the U.S."

As the student manager of his school's recycling effort, James West, 11, has had to teach some Deep Springs Elementary teachers a thing or two. A dead mouse, for example, is not suitable for the recycling bin. "I had to tell them that they can't put it in there," said the fifth-grader, recalling one of his more unusual discoveries in his recycling career. But as James and other Deep Springs students have learned, juice pouches, plastic cups, tape dispensers and even spray nozzles may be recycled with some special effort, in addition to the more typical kinds of plastic thrown into recycling bins.

When my daughter, Olivia Moreland, told me last summer that she wanted to pick up trash at her school, I thought it was a passing fancy, something that she would forget when the school year started. But she didn’t forget. She persisted and decided she wanted to create Earth Patrol, a group at her school that could help. Since the club’s formation, ambassadors – as members are known – have recycled Capri Sun drink pouches through TerraCycle, performed regular classroom audits to monitor recycling and reuse activities, scoured the campus in monthly cleanup efforts and planted hundreds of bulbs donated by Mecklenburg County as part of the 2012 Great American Clean-Up and Keep Mecklenburg Beautiful campaign.

Terracycle intends to ship all the collected diapers to its headquarters in New Jersey, where, after being neutralised, the plastic casing will be separated from the paper-based insides for recovery of new raw materials from the component parts. Absorbent materials can be reused in pet products or as fibre additives in concrete; meanwhile, plastic components could potentially be combined with other plastics to create ‘plastic wood’ for park benches and picnic tables.

As with many consumer trends, the demand for eco-friendly products has been affected by the economy. According to a 2011 study by Grail Research, consumers who previously considered or purchased green products are doing so less, turning instead to more affordable options. So this means companies are similarly cutting back on green efforts, right? Not necessarily. For many companies, rising oil prices are one reason to reduce energy consumption, which, in turn, cuts costs. But also, if there’s one positive byproduct of the recession, it’s the renewed emphasis on efficiency. More businesses are looking for ways to manufacture with fewer materials, produce less waste and use less energy in production, distribution and even in their offices. These days, going green not only offers feel-good benefits, it just makes good business sense.

Ecología para niños: Reciclar materiales de escritura y obtener beneficios. Cada vez más empresas se suman alreciclaje de los propios productos que fabrican. Personalmente creo que en un futuro cercano cada fabricante debería hacerse cargo del reciclaje de los productos que comercializa para obtener ganancias mientras contamina. ¿Tienes idea de cuántos bolígrafos o rotuladores quedan fuera de uso en tu hogar cada año? y si los juntaras con los de otras familias, ¿qué cantidad podrían llegar a acumular?

After launching the Method Refill Brigade® in 2011, Method, the leading innovator in premium, environmentally-conscious household and personal care products, and upcycling/recycling pioneer TerraCycle, Inc. have now expanded the program to accept pumps, triggers, refill pouches and almost any cleaner product packaging, regardless of brand. Schools, offices, families or individuals can collect traditionally non-recyclable cleaner packaging and send it to TerraCycle to earn money for charity gifts and donations through the newly dubbed Cleaner Packaging Brigade. The collected packaging will be turned into trash cans, coolers and other home goods.