Det amerikanska miljöföretaget TerraCycle har inlett ett unikt samarbete med Kraft Foods i Sverige. Efter att ha njutit en kopp Gevalia kan konsumenterna skicka in sina Tassimo kaffekapslar som TerraCycle återvinner eller omvandlar till bland annat handväskor och högtalare. Den nästan obefintliga konkurrensen på den Svenska marknaden inom segmentet gynnar bolaget.
”Det som förvånar oss är att det inte finns någon annan som gör som vi”, säger Chris Baker, vd och ansvarig för TerraCycles verksamhet i Europa.
”Vi siktar in oss på det skräp som ingen annan vill ha.”
Você não tem custo nenhum e fez a sua parte para deixar o planeta melhor para todos!
Danone Dairy Strategy Governance Director Bryan Martins adds: “Danone Dairy UK are delighted to be able to empower consumers by offering a program that allows them to upcycle their Danone pots and ensure they are reused, protect the environment and support great causes. We are encouraging schools, businesses and individuals who love Danone yogurt to set up a collection point and start their own Danone Yogurt Brigade".
Through TerraCycle initiatives over 70,000 consumers in the UK have helped divert over 4 million pieces of packaging and raised over £25,000 for UK charities in 2010.
Like many others, we already loved
TerraCycle before reviewing Tom Szaky’s book,
Revolution in a Bottle—How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business. Szaky’s little book is incredibly readable and takes you through the ups and downs (there were lots of downs). Starting with his freshman year at Princeton and his decision to drop-out, Szaky takes us with him through every agonizing detail of the struggle to start the company and keep it afloat. Think garbage bins filled with maggots, overflowing swimming pools filled with worm poop “tea”, etc… This could have been subtitled: The Little Green Company That Could.
The teachers at Delshire Elementary School in Delhi used to see a lot of Capri Sun drink pouches get thrown away. Once they signed up to recycle them through a company called TerraCycle, the school began earning two cents for every one of those pouches and became part of a nationwide effort that has just reached an impressive milestone of keeping 50 million pouches out of landfills. In addition, TerraCycle, which makes affordable, eco-friendly products from packaging waste, and Capri Sun have paid one million dollars to schools and non-profits in return for the recycled drink pouches.
Beginning this month, Fairhaven, Diamond Lake and West Oak Middle schools will collect empty Capri Sun and Honest Kids drink pouches from student lunches, classroom parties, etc. Once the district has 500 pouches, it can send them to TerraCycle, a company which will re-purpose the drink pouches into items like backpacks, messenger bags, folders, clip boards and laptop cases, which the company sells on its website
www.terracycle.net. The district will receive two-cents for every pouch it provides to TerraCycle.
St. Joseph School
As part of the TerraCycle program, St. Joseph School collects and gets cash for various brands, including all Mars brands candy wrappers. After Halloween (and anytime), people can send those empty wrappers to school. Collection boxes are the main foyer and cafeteria. The following brands are accepted: M&Ms, Skittles and Twix, Mars and Dove bars.
Also, before people dispose of this year's Halloween costumes, they should consider donating it for next year's Green Halloween Used Costume Sale.
St. Joseph School
As part of the TerraCycle program, St. Joseph School collects and gets cash for various brands, including all Mars brands candy wrappers. After Halloween (and anytime), people can send those empty wrappers to school. Collection boxes are the main foyer and cafeteria. The following brands are accepted: M&Ms, Skittles and Twix, Mars and Dove bars.
Also, before people dispose of this year's Halloween costumes, they should consider donating it for next year's Green Halloween Used Costume Sale. The
When it comes to eco-mindedness, throwing anything away can be an anxiety riddled experience. Every product is rigorously analyzed guaranteeing the trashcan is the only option. In steps Tom Szaky, an innovate man with an earth changing idea, Sponsored Waste.
Tom Szaky started TerraCycle in 2001 as a Princeton University freshman, with the hopes of winning the Princeton Business Plan Contest. His idea was to address the environmental issue of trash by using worms to eat organic waste thus producing fertilizer.
With TerraCycle, one person's trash is another person's eco-friendly retail product.
The brainchild of a 19-year-old Princeton University freshman in 2001, TerraCycle uses a wide variety of non-recyclable items to make more than 50 diverse products that are sold at major retailers, including Target, The Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Office Max, Whole Foods Market and Petco.
