A PepsiCo já trata os resíduos desde 2009, quando assinou acordo com a TerraCycle, empresa especializada na transformação daqueles em bolsas, estojos e lancheiras. Além disso, a companhia também produziu mais de 10 mil displays reciclados para os pontos de venda utilizando PET e reaproveitando embalagens cartonadas de TetraPak
A empresa TerraCycle, foi criada pelo húngaro, Tom Szaky, está presente em 11 países e é líder em upcycling. A empresa chegou ao Brasil em fevereiro de 2010 e reutiliza embalagens de salgadinhos, sucos e chocolates para criar, mochilas, estojos, cadernos, guarda-chuvas, entre outros produtos.
In lunch rooms across the country, tons of wrappers,juice pouches, and yougurt cups are tossed away every day... But you can keep that trash out of our landfills by sending them to Terracycle. They turn "trash" into pencil cases, tote bags, and backpacks.So cool right? So ask your teacher if you and your classmates can start a recycling team. Go to Terracycle.net to fond out where to send that lunchroom trash.
From April 22 to May 21, simply take your used flip flops to an
Old Navy store near you and look for a collection bin that looks like the one above. Called Flip Flop Replay, this month-long recycling event comes thanks to a partnership between trash-to-treasure eco company
TerraCycle and Old Navy.
While catching up on my DVR’d Ellen shows (my favorite show ever!) this week I saw the awesome program Old Navy & Terrycle has put together right now in honor of Earth month called
Flip Flop Brigade. They are asking for you to donate all old flip flops so they can turn them into playgrounds. Every year millions of used flip-flops are needlessly discarded and end up in landfills. TerraCycle® is proud to partner with Old Navy® to create a second life for used flip-flops.
Here middle and elementary students are each deciding how to spend a small portion of $50,000 grant money the school won this year from Walmart by collecting wrappers for reuse by the company TerraCycle.
Sixth- through eighth-graders vote on one of three ways to spend $2,500: buy customized flash drives for each student; buy tables, chairs and umbrellas for lunchtime al fresco dining in a school courtyard; or bring in a mini-game show assembly.
If you’re a flip flop fanatic (and why shouldn't you be), chances are you’ve got a spare pair or two that are due for retirement. Instead of donating them to your neighborhood thrift store (although that’s good too), consider dropping them off at your local
Old Navy outlet.
From now until May 21, the nationwide retailer is teaming up with trash-to-treasure eco-company
TerraCycle to collect old flip flops and turn them into four public playgrounds in communities across the U.S. How cool is that?
Highlands even goes so far as to recycle the un-recyclable. Through an innovative company called
TerraCycle, Highlands helps turn things that would otherwise be filling up landfills–like potato chip bags and juice boxes–into new items like fences, benches and recycling bins. Clever, huh? Some dedicated Highlands students even volunteer their recess time to collect accepted materials for TerraCycle from other classrooms.
Inside of the school, motion detectors for lights have been installed to reduce wasted energy.
Until May 21, Old Navy shoppers can participate in the Flip Flop Replay by depositing their used flip flops in collection bins found inside any Old Navy store. TerraCycle will then recycle the flip-flops into playgrounds which will be donated to communities around the country. By bringing in these hard-to-recycle products to their local stores, consumers help keep waste out of their community landfills.
