On the national level a company called TerraCycle believes in a bold goal of eliminating the very idea of waste. Through an extensive network of collection and manufacturing locations, Terracycle is teaming with organizations to have schoolchildren collect trash products such as Ziploc bags, candy wrappers, chip bags, drink pouches and toothpaste tubes — paying 2 cents per product to the charity of their choice.
These materials, rather than going to a landfill, are diverted into manufacturing to produce products such as coolers, trashcans, benches, and even fences. Started in 2001 by a college student, TerraCycle has already collected more than a billion different waste products and turned them into a range of products that are sold at stores like Walmart and Whole Foods <
http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20110107/APC03/101070461/1028/Cheryl-Perkins-column--Waste-goes-beyond-the-kind-that-s-thrown-away#> . So far they have yielded more than $1 million for charity, and the numbers continue to grow.
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Embalagens de produtos da linha cut-size são coletadas e transformadas em novos materiais e produtos de qualidade com valor ambiental agregado
Jean returns from vacation on Monday. Here’s the lineup for our first new shows of 2011:
Wednesday:
The Future of Recycling: Tom Szaky, the 28-year-old founder of TerraCycle, one of the fastest growing green companies in the world, is making a business out of recycling and a name for himself as "#1 CEO in America Under 30."
The strategic partners announced today include the upcoming film documenting Muhammed Yunus' To Catch a Dollar, Eileen Fisher, Lifetime Networks, Seventh Generation, Dansko, Terracycle, Mary's Gone Crackers, Step Up Women's Network, and Geena Davis, Julia Ormond, Isobel Coleman and Nicholas Kristof and his best-selling book Half the Sky.
The targeted areas include developing areas in the United States and 56 countries in Central America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
The strategic partners announced today include the upcoming film documenting Muhammed Yunus' To Catch a Dollar, Eileen Fisher, Lifetime Networks, Seventh Generation, Dansko, Terracycle, Mary's Gone Crackers, Step Up Women's Network, and Geena Davis, Julia Ormond, Isobel Coleman and Nicholas Kristof and his best-selling book Half the Sky.
Every year, billions of drink pouches end up in dumpsters and landfills across America. Working with school volunteers, the manufacturer, TerraCycle, takes tons of waste juice pouches annually and donates 2 cents ($0.02) to a charity or non-profit for each pouch collected. The color of each lunch box will vary depending on the type of drink pouch used.
TerraCycle is in the business of Upcycling, making affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials.
A Suzano Papel e Celulose iniciou uma parceria pioneira no setor e, em parceria com a Terracycle, empresa internacional de upcycling – reciclagem de materiais e conversão em produtos acessíveis.
“TerraCycle’s purpose is to eliminate the idea of waste. We do this by creating a national recycling systems for the previously non-recyclable. The process starts by offering collect programs (many of them free) to collect your waste and then convert the collected waste into a wide range of products and materials. With over 14 million people collecting waste in 11 countries together we have diverted billions of pieces of waste that are either upcycled or recycled into over 1,500 various products available at major retailers ranging from
Walmart to
Whole Foods Market. Our hope is to eliminate the idea of waste by creating collection and solution systems for anything that today ends up in our trash.
“TerraCycle’s purpose is to eliminate the idea of waste. We do this by creating a national recycling systems for the previously non-recyclable. The process starts by offering collect programs (many of them free) to collect your waste and then convert the collected waste into a wide range of products and materials. With over 14 million people collecting waste in 11 countries together we have diverted billions of pieces of waste that are either upcycled or recycled into over 1,500 various products available at major retailers ranging from
Walmart to
Whole Foods Market. Our hope is to eliminate the idea of waste by creating collection and solution systems for anything that today ends up in our trash.
Founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, then a 20-year-old Princeton University freshman, TerraCycle began by producing organic fertilizer, packaging liquid worm poop in used soda bottles. Since then TerraCycle has grown into one of the fastest growing green companies in the world.”
This fun lunch box is made from waste drink pouch material. Send your kids to school in style with this attractive lunch box from
Green Ostrich.
Every year, billions of drink pouches end up in dumpsters and landfills across America. Working with school volunteers, the manufacturer, TerraCycle, takes tons of waste juice pouches annually and donates 2 cents ($0.02) to a charity or non-profit for each pouch collected. The color of each lunch box will vary depending on the type of drink pouch used.
TerraCycle is in the business of Upcycling, making affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials. The process of upcycling converts useless products or disposed-of waste into new products of better quality or or higher environmental value.
This fun lunch box is made from waste drink pouch material. Send your kids to school in style with this attractive lunch box from
Green Ostrich.
