“We’re trying to avoid generating waste by looking at alternatives,” said Michael Brown, director of the Ecology Action Center in Normal, one of the sponsors of the event. There will be a nonrecyclable bag of potato chips in vendors’ lunches but the bags will be collected by a local group and sent to Terracycle, a company that makes products from items that can’t be recycled.

Quem é que não tem um vestido de festa que nunca mais usou, uma saia, ou qualquer peça de roupa. Pensou em doar? Antes disso saiba que você transformar isso numa peça moderna e com o mesmo valor tanto fashion quanto financeiro. Essa prática antiga hoje em dia recebe até nome: upcylcing. Além de ganhar uma roupa nova, você ainda gasta menos e consume menos.

consoGlobe Grand concours Eco- designer avec TerraCycle consoGlobe L'idée est de revaloriser les déchets en les transformant en objets de déco design et/ou utiles

In a show of support for New York City’s pledge to double recycle efforts by 2017, Honest Tea and partners GrowNYC, Recyclebank, Coca-Cola Live Positively, Global Inheritance and Five-Boro Green Services will place a 30-foot tall recycling bin in Times Square and attempt to crowd-source recycle more than 45,000 plastic, glass and aluminum beverage containers in ten hours. The plastic bottles collected will be recycled into essential gardening supplies including shovels, watering cans and plastic lumber, which will be used to build and cultivate an urban garden for PS 102, an elementary school in Harlem. “National recycling rates are nowhere near where they need to be,” says Honest Tea co-founder and TeaEO Seth Goldman. “Honest Tea is committed to finding ways to help Americans recycle more. We’ve helped install recycling bins in our hometown of Bethesda, MD and now it’s time to expand our efforts.” At the event in Times Square, bottles will act as currency. People who bring bottles down to “The Great Recycle” will be awarded points for each bottle recycled, that can be redeemed at the onsite TRASHed Recycling Store run by Global Inheritance. There, points can be redeemed for rewards such as cold bottles of Honest Tea, t-shirts and reusable bags, jeans, video games, and tickets to sporting events, concerts and Broadway shows.

Years before there were Pods, there were Dropps. Back in 2005, Jonathan Propper, CEO of Cot’n Wash Inc., Philadelphia, listened to his wife complain about lugging laundry detergent bottles and measuring cups up and down basement steps. He knew he could find an easier way. Propper’s “Aha!” moment led to the development of Dropps Laundry Pacs and the birth of an entirely new laundry category.

Depuis novembre, les crayons usagés, en plastique et en métal, sont collectés dans chaque classe de l'établissement par les éco-délégués, puis rassemblés, tous les six mois, afin d'être revendus grâce à l'association Terracycle

Hasta los paquetitos de de jugos en polvo pueden reciclarse. Como ejemplo, la marca Tang y la organización TerraCycle, ya recolectaron medio millon de envases que seran utilizados como materia prima para fabricar mochilas, cartucheras, tarjeteros, cuadernos y bolsas amigables con el medio ambiente. La consigna es unirse en grupos (puede ser desde una familia  hasta una escuela) y juntar los sobrecitos. La novedad es que los sobres son canjeados por puntos que equivalen a dinero,  que luego se donan  a escuelas públicas o organizaciones sin fines de lucro que elijan quienes se unan para recolectar. De esta manera se puede colaborar con el medio ambiente y a su vez con  las entidades que mas lo necesiten.  Para participar www.terracycle.com.ar

Since 2001, TerraCycle has risen from a dorm-room start-up selling worm poop-based plant food into a internationally-known growth business. Its focus: providing consumer packaged goods companies and retailers with cause marketing programs and nonprofits with fundraising opportunities. TerraCycle has over 70,000 schools and charities collecting waste globally and they have earned collectively almost 4 million dollars just by recycling more! Whether you work for a large company, a start-up or an NGO, you'll pick up valuable lessons from Global VP Albe Zakes based on Terracyle's decade of turning "waste into wonder".

Most of the things in your room right now will eventually become garbage. That’s the simple idea that in 2001 drove college freshman Tom Szaky to launch Terracycle, a company that collects waste and converts it into new products. For example, Skittles wrappers are combined to become a kite, while Honest Tea containers become a laptop case. His unusual concept has turned Terracycle into a $16 million company with roughly 100 employees at its Trenton, N.J., headquarters. EL: How did it all begin? Szaky: We started by producing liquid worm poop in used soda bottles, because my friends were using worm poop on their plants as an organic fertilizer. That was the beginning of making products out of garbage.