TRENTON, N.J., May 23, 2011 – Summer is the season for outdoor parties and picnics, and it’s important to take care of the outdoors as you are enjoying it. Instead of filling up your trash can with empty food wrappers and plastic cups after guests leave, you can reuse the packaging yourself or send the waste to TerraCycle, where you can earn money for your favorite charity and keep things out of the local landfill at the same time. Terracycle, an innovative upcycling and recycling company, partners with brands such as Frito-Lay, Nabisco, Kraft Cheese, Solo and Scott to reduce the amount of wast being thrown away. Some of the wrappers can also be used for do-it-yourself projects. An easy , crafty summer project is the do-it-yourself chip bowl, which can be made from a Frito-Lay chip bag, and then used for your next party! Or, you can turn your used Solo cups into herb planters for the porch or kitchen. For those who'd prefer to send their waste back to TerraCycle, they'll earn two cents per item for a charity of their choice.

The North Face in Peabody, a supplier of outdoor apparel, equipment and footwear, has partnered with upcycling and recycling pioneer TerraCycle to keep plastic polybags, used to protect apparel through distribution and transit, out of landfills. "The North Face Polybag Brigade" will divert 100 percent of the polybag packaging waste at the 20 The North Face retail stores in the United States where #4 plastic bags are not readily recyclable.

Welcome back to Rock Roundup, when we take a look back at Council Rock community happenings and give a sneak peek into what's coming up on the calendar. Here's the latest from Council Rock: Newtown Elementary School TerraCycle is a private business headquartered in Trenton, NJ.. which specializes in making consumer products from post-consumer materials, often reusing waste materials that are otherwise difficult to recycle. The Newtown Elementary School community collected close to 20,000 items for TerraCycle recycling during the 2010-2011 school year.

Men trots att vi kan sortera så mycket, är det vissa saker som inte går att återvinna och vissa grejer som är svårare att sortera än andra. Men här kommer Terracycle in i bilden och tar glatt emot dina sopor. De vill visserligen inte ha vad som helst, utan är fokuserade på några få produkter, som de kallar för olika ”brigader”. Men förhoppningsvis kan de utöka sina brigader ju fler vi är som skickar in skräp.

The idea of “going green” has been rolling since the 1970s, and started becoming trendy in the early 2000s when organic food, sustainable products, and eco-friendly everything started popping up. The movement was largely powered by an effort to change the products, habits and sciences we already had order to make our lives less impactful on the planet. While I took notice of this surge in popularity, I never identified myself as an environmentalist. That all changed one day when I noticed how much left over food was discarded in my university’s dining halls and how many bottles, notebooks chip bags etc were thrown away in my dorm halls. I was stunned by the amount of waste. But it wasn’t some sort of eco-guilt I was feeling, it was excitement. Waste made the perfect raw material for building new consumer products because it has little to no cost (theoretically even a negative cost), which would allow a company to make eco-friendly products without charging a premium all while doing something good for the planet. A lifelong obsession with waste began!

A Copyhouse, gráfica carioca, anuncia que firmou parceria com a TerraCycle. O objetivo do acordo é proporcionar destinação ecológicamente correto às embalagens de papel que consome. De acordo com a TerraCycle, a Copyhouse é a primeira gráfica do país a se inscrever no programa de Upcycle e Reciclagem de Embalagens de Papel, que conta também com apoio do Grupo Suzano. “Enquanto gráfica, utilizamos algumas milhares de embalagens por mês e sempre buscamos uma solução para este resíduo. Estamos muito felizes em encontrar uma parceria séria, que visa a preservação ambiental e ainda ajuda as pessoas. Nossa meta é conseguir encaminhar 100% das embalagens de papel utilizadas para a TerraCycle”, explica a idealizadora do projeto na Copyhouse, Caroline Schalinski, que também é a responsável pelo marketing e pós-vendas. A TerraCycle realiza a coleta das embalagens usadas e, a partir de um processo inovador, as transforma em produtos ecológicamente corretos, reduzindo o lixo e colaborando para a preservação do planeta.

A Brigada PepsiCo, que começou  em março de 2010, é um dos programas de maior sucesso da TerraCycle. A coleta feita pelos consumidores já ultrapassou a marca de 700.000  embalagens de snacks e, por conta da rápida adesão ao programa, o número de Brigadas chega hoje a mais de 1.000 times de coleta de embalagens.

A Brigada PepsiCo, que começou  em março de 2010, é um dos programas de maior sucesso da TerraCycle. A coleta feita pelos consumidores já ultrapassou a marca de 700.000  embalagens de snacks e, por conta da rápida adesão ao programa, o número de Brigadas chega hoje a mais de 1.000 times de coleta de embalagens. Para participar, basta se cadastrar na Brigada PepsiCo, no site da TerraCycle (www.terracycle.com.br), começar a coletar, enviar suas embalagens e& [...]

No Brasil, a PepsiCo também há muito tempo tem dedicado esforços para tratar os resíduos. Em 2009, a empresa assinou acordo com a TerraCycle, empresa especializada na transformação de resíduos em bolsas, estojos e lancheiras. Além disso, a companhia também produziu mais de 20 mil displays reciclados de BOPP em 2010 para os pontos de venda. Para 2011 a meta é conquistar esse mesmo número de displays BOPP.

Noetix Corp., a world-class provider of business intelligence (BI) software and services for enterprise applications, today announced it has been selected for King County’s annual list of Best Workplaces for Recycling and Waste Reduction for the third consecutive year. King County’s Solid Waste Division initiated the list five years ago to recognize businesses for strong internal recycling programs and for their commitment to making recycling a priority for their companies. In 2011, 89 businesses, including restaurants, manufacturers, city governments, and a wide variety of others, demonstrated fulfillment of the listing’s criteria and provided individual stories about how successes were achieved. “Noetix and the other businesses on our list have put exceptional recycling programs into place and shown commitment to reducing the amount of waste their company sends to the landfill,” said Karen May, project manager, Recycling and Environmental Services at King County Solid Waste Division. “Their actions help reduce the impacts of climate change and feed recycled materials back into the economy.” To qualify as a Best Workplace for Recycling and Waste Reduction, companies must meet at least 10 criteria from a list of more than 30 good business recycling practices that range from placing recycling bins by every desk to collecting food scraps for composting.