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Countryside Elementary School has earned a $30,000 grant for placing second in a statewide contest that encourages the “upcycling” of post-consumer packaging. A public school serving children in grades K-4 in Mount Laurel, Countryside community saved 46,554 items from the trash, including juice pouches, candy wrappers, sandwich and snack bags, and yogurt containers. Parent Kate Esaia rinsed them out and prepared the items to be shipped to Terracycle, a Princeton-based international company that creates new products, such as insulated coolers, with the recycled materials. The “Trash for Cash” contest was sponsored by TerraCycle and Walmart. A total of $125,000 is being awarded to New Jersey schools that contributed the most post-consumer packaging between Oct. 1 and Dec. 15.

Trenton-based TerraCycle converts non-recyclable products and packaging into affordable, eco-friendly items that range from backpacks to benches. Its design team suggests a novel interior decorating idea: Drill holes in vinyl records and connect them with jump rings to make a room divider.

Neste início do ano, o presidente Mauro de Oliveira, lançou um desafio aos colaboradores do SEC: cada um, todo mês, terá a meta mínima de coletar 30 embalagens.

The scheme has been launched in partnership with recycling company TerraCycle UK, which will be responsible for collecting the used inhalers for recycling.

Co-operative Pharmacy clinical services manager Fiona Caplan Dean said the potential for recycling products and reducing waste was "huge". The scheme has been launched in partnership with recycling company TerraCycle UK, which will be responsible for collecting the used inhalers for recycling.

People with respiratory illnesses can now recycle their inhalers thanks to a new initiative launched by The Co-operative Pharmacy and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The scheme – a first in Europe – is part of an initial six-month trial in partnership with eco-friendly manufacturer, TerraCycle UK.  Approximately 35 million GSK respiratory inhalers, including 25 million Ventolin packs are used in the UK each year1 generating some 450 tonnes of waste which potentially end up in landfill or incineration

She found out the offer came from TerraCycle's Drink Pouch Brigade, a free fundraising program for schools and nonprofit groups that pays 2 cents for every Capri Sun pouch collected. So far, TerraCycle has collected 50 million drink pouches through its program, and paid out $1 million. "Our goal is for people to look at waste in a whole new way," said TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky. "The $1 million that Capri Sun has helped us give out is a powerful sign of the enthusiasm that communities across the country have for the goals of this program."

  In addition to new mums, poinsettias and hard goods products, the event – dubbed Plants On Parade – gave Clearwater the opportunity to talk about a few of its unique initiatives, including an interactive sustainability initiative that involves kids collecting reusable plastic food tubs in which plants are grown. “We’ve grown our mums in these I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter tubs,” Medeiros says. “Kids will collect them after the flowers have played their role, and they’ll return them to their school or an area that’s been designated by the store for two cents each. “TerraCycle has agreed with us on an exclusive agreement and for any store that participates, we will implement a marketing/PR program that enables us to go into a geographic area around the grocery store and direct market to that elementary school.”