BERLIN – Berlin will soon join the growing number of municipalities working to reduce pollution through cigarette butt recycling.   Thanks to a grant, the town has purchased 20 cigarette butt disposal canisters that could be installed as soon as this week. As they’re emptied, butts will be sent to TerraCycle, a company that offers free recycling.   “The beauty of it, it’s not your average butt collector,” said Ivy Wells, the town’s economic and community development director. “There’s a very easy cannister to unlock. We put them in a bag and box and mail them to TerraCycle. They recycle them.”   According to Wells, she applied for a Main Street Improvement grant from the Department of Housing and Community Development in May. She asked for funding to allow the town to buy new trash cans and recycling receptacles as well as butt disposal containers. The town learned it had received a $10,000 grant for the project in the fall.   Wells said the butt containers first caught her eye at a Main Street conference she attended.   “I met the manufacturer and learned about them,” she said.   Cigarette butt recycling has also been in the news, as Ocean City began efforts to collect and recycle butts in 2019. While Berlin doesn’t host the number of people Ocean City does, Wells said there was still a butt pollution problem. Prior to applying for the grant, she walked through town and photographed areas where cigarette butts tended to pile up. Those are the places she plans to have staff install the disposal canisters. Her department and the town’s public works team will coordinate efforts to ensure the canisters are emptied as needed.   “We will make sure it’s done,” she said.   Once the butts are collected, they’ll be mailed to TerraCycle, which provides free shipping and donates a dollar to the Keep America Beautiful Cigarette Litter Prevention Program for every pound of discarded cigarettes collected. According to the company’s website, waste collected through the program is recycled into a variety of industrial products while any remaining tobacco is recycled as compost.   As far as the new trash cans and recycling receptacles, Wells said they were currently under production. The stone colored cans will feature an embedded Berlin logo—the same one found on the town’s wayfinding signs.   “The town logo on these is embedded so it takes longer to produce them,” she said, adding that they’d be installed once they arrived.

The maker of the expandable phone grips barnacled to many people's smart phones has partnered with a waste management company to launch a national recycling program.   The PopSockets Recycling Program allows consumers to mail products to TerraCycle centers to earn points that can be used for charity gifts or converted to cash and donated to the non-profit, school or charitable organization of their choice, according to a news release.   The program accepts any brand of cell phone case, as well as all Popsockets products and packaging.   David Barnett, CEO and founder of Boulder-based PopSockets, said his company's mission is to create positive impact.   "That means taking responsibility for our products at every stage of their lifecycle," he said in a news release.   Once collected, products will be broken down and separated by material to be cleaned and melted into hard plastic usable for new recycled products.   Those interested may sign up at bit.ly/PopSocketsRecycling to receive a prepaid shipping label. 

There are three main options for decluttering your beauty collection the eco-friendly way — reselling, donating and recycling:   We have all the answers.   Where to Re-Sell Unwanted Beauty Products"Recommerce" has all but taken over the fashion industry, and the second-hand shopping trend is extending its influence into the beauty space, too; with sites like Poshmark, eBay and Glambot all allowing beauty products to be bought and sold via online platforms.   If all else fails, check out Reddit: The community content platform boasts Skincare Exchange and Makeup Exchange pages with tens of thousands of users, where you can share any item, new or used, with community members who may be willing to buy or swap products.   Share Your Beauty, an offshoot of the Family to Family organization, launched in 2014 with the help of beauty influencer Lara Eurdolian of Pretty Connected. The initiative distributes unopened, unused beauty and personal care products to "homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters and foster care agencies," according to Pam Koner, the Executive Director of Family to Family. The organization works directly with skin-care, makeup and hair-care brands, as well as industry influencers, to collect excess product; but it also accepts donations from the general public. "Individual donors can ship their beauty products to us or leave them at a drop off point in New York City," explains Koner.   The easiest option? Check in with local homeless and women's shelters in your area to see if they accept personal care drop-offs, and make a philanthropic pit-stop on your next lunch break.   As far as packaging goes, recycling is key. "Each year, more than 120 billion units of packaging contribute to one quarter of landfill waste, much of it produced by the global cosmetics industry," says Gina Herrera, the U.S. Director of Brand Partnerships at TerraCycle. "The complex plastics of squeeze tubes, cream tubs, eyeliner and mascara wands, body wash bottles and powder compacts can take over 400 years to break down in a landfill." That's exactly why TerraCycle exists. The national recycling program accepts virtually all makeup, skin-care and hair-care packaging — from bottles to pumps to trigger heads — and makes sure each piece gets recycled through the proper channels.

Setting out for a backpacking trip and then stuffing your bag with energy bars and freeze-dried meals wrapped in plastic is one of the best examples of cognitive dissonance in outdoor recreation. Leave No Trace has preached “pack it out,” but then what? It comes out of the backcountry only to get tossed in with the billions of tons of plastic waste sitting in landfills or getting swept into oceans.   We are trashing our planet, and nature lovers are part of the problem. So where are all the green companies doing compostable packaging for backpacking food?   It turns out that revamping packaging systems is more complicated than people in the food industry realized when they first set out to tackle the issue. Even Patagonia Provisions—one of the outdoor industry’s leaders in sustainability efforts—is struggling. “You have to consider the producer of the product, the machinery they have, the waste-management end of it, and, in the case of food, the barriers the packages provide to keep the food safe,” says Birgit Cameron, Patagonia Provisions’ managing director.   Ever since Patagonia Provisions launched its fruit bars in 2015, it’s been working toward a compostable wrapper. The company is currently on the fourth iteration, and there are still problems. One issue is that the compostable film is just different enough from traditional wrappers that it slows down the manufacturer’s packaging equipment. “The texture and thickness work differently on the machines,” says Cameron. It doesn’t slip as seamlessly through the production line, and that means it takes longer to package the bars, which means the manufacturer has to charge more—since the process is holding up that production line. And price is important: sustainable food should not just be for the rich.   Then there are the other problems. When Kate Flynn left corporate America in 2017 to start Sun and Swell Foods, a snack-food company based in Santa Barbara, California, a big part of her goal was to run a responsible business. She formed Sun and Swell as a B Corp and signed on with 1% for the Planet, an organization of companies that have pledged to donate at least 1 percent of annual sales to environmental nonprofits. “But we were still contributing to the problem of single-use plastics,” she says. “About once a month, I’d  do these really aggressive Google searches, trying to find a solution.” Finally, TIPA Corp, a company based in Israel specializing in compostable packaging, popped up in her search results.   In March of 2019, Flynn committed to all-compostable packaging, intending to have her entire line wrapped in the material by the end of the year. That hasn’t happened. “What we learned is that there are so many more complexities than we ever knew. People think it just costs more, but really that’s the least of the concerns,” she says.   Sun and Swell’s biggest issue has been the life span of the wrappers. TIPA guarantees them for nine months. “But that’s [from] when it comes off the line at the printer. Our experience is that it has been a little less than nine months,” Flynn says. The packages have a little transparent window on them, and as the packages age, the window starts to get milky and look funky. Then, of course, customers are hesitant to buy them. “It turns into a food-waste issue,” she says.   And this is the thing about plastic that makes the whole debate so complicated: it’s been hugely helpful in reducing our global food waste—another massive driver of global emissions. Take, for example, grapes. When they’re packaged in plastic bags, their shelf life is 120 days. Left loose, their shelf life would be ten days. Until we can change our system so we’re more reliant on local food, plastic will be a necessary evil.     There’s also the fact that sealing up food is one great way to ensure that it is safe. When Ashley Lance started her vegan, eco-conscious backpacking meal business Fernweh Food Company last year, she really wanted it to be zero-waste. But Lance’s local USDA officer, who helped her get her products certified as safe to sell, wasn’t convinced that zero-waste sales could ever get the regulatory thumbs-up. “For the USDA to sign off on it, it has to be in an airtight, waterproof container,” she says. For local orders, she stores her company’s food in jars. But because jars are heavy and breakable, shipping them doesn’t make much sense for smaller companies like Lance’s.   Her work-around is shipping each item in reusable muslin bags. Those bags are then sealed into a compostable outer package, which satisfied the USDA. It’s not quite zero waste, but it’s as close as Lance feels she’s going to get with the current regulations. Of course, users can’t make their meals directly in the bags—they’ll need a pot. But Lance says most of her customers see that as a feature, not a bug. On the trail, she dumps her dinner into a reusable silicone bag and adds hot water. She keeps one for sweet things and one for savory in her pack. At the end of her trips, she has almost no plastic garbage to unload.   The fact that small companies like Fernweh and Sun and Swell are devoting themselves to this mission is great, but we really need systematic change. One current problem with compostable packaging is that “compostable” is a nebulous term. Things that compost quickly in an industrial system may take months in your backyard compost pile. And a lot of cities don’t offer compost pickup at all, so these wrappers just sit in landfills. “We have a waste system set up. The problem is that it isn’t quite working,” says Cameron.   Patagonia Provisions is actively looking at whether it can use its Tin Shed Ventures—the company’s venture-capital fund—to kick-start a system purpose-built for compostable wrappers. This might include building industrial composting facilities and encouraging manufacturers to invest in machines that seal compostable packages just as fast as plastic ones. “Like anything we do, being in a system fully so we can work on it to figure out how to change it is sort of what we’re up to,” says Cameron. And because Patagonia Provisions is large, it may be able to create a lucrative market for entrepreneurs making more eco-friendly packaging. “What often happens is that people start to adopt what we find,” she says.   In the meantime, a handful of outdoor brands are engaging with a recycling company called TerraCycle. Brands pay TerraCycle to collect and recycle wrappers and other hard-to-recycle stuff. Right now, Backpacker’s Pantry, Clif Bar, Gu, and Mountain House all participate. TerraCycle will send individual consumers an envelope that they can use to return their wrappers. Those become recycled plastic pellets, which can be melted down and reused. While this is definitely better than packaging going to a landfill, it’s not a perfect system, since it takes energy to melt and ship them. Still, it’s a good step for companies who want to move toward zero waste but are hesitant—or unable—to jump completely in.   But let’s hope that more companies adapt and move toward zero-waste practices sooner rather than later, so we can start enjoying our meals in the mountains without a side of guilt.

PopSockets, maker of expandable phone grips, mobile tech, and lifestyle accessories has partnered with international recycling leader TerraCycle® to create a free recycling program for PopSockets products and packaging, as well as any brand of cellular phone case. As an added incentive, for every shipment of PopSockets waste sent to TerraCycle through the PopSockets Recycling Program, collectors earn points that can be used for charity gifts or converted to cash and donated to the non-profit, school or charitable organization of their choice.   “PopSockets’ mission is to create positive impact, and that means taking responsibility for our products at every stage of their lifecycle,” said David Barnett, PopSockets Founder and CEO. “Leveraging TerraCycle’s expertise, we’re aiming to recycle even more products than we create. We invite customers to recycle PopSockets merchandise and all cell phone cases through our PopSockets Recycling Program.”   Through the PopSockets Recycling Program, consumers can now send in the following products and packaging to be recycled for free:  

• PopGrips®
• PopMinis®
• PopGrip® Slide
• PopWallet® & PopWallet+
• PopChains®
• PopSockets® PopMounts®
• PopSockets® packaging
• Otter + Pop Phone Cases
• PopThirst®
• PopGrip® Lips, PopGrip® Mirror & PopGrip® AirPods Holder
• PopStation®
• Any brand of cellular phone case

  “Through the free recycling program, PopSockets is offering consumers a powerful, sustainable option to divert waste from landfills,” said TerraCycle CEO and Founder, Tom Szaky. “By collecting and recycling items that are typically not recyclable, consumers are given the opportunity to think twice about what is recyclable and what truly is garbage.”

Every T-shirt has a lifecycle. There’s that first fresh-off-the-rack wear, when it feels brand new, followed by the first few washes when things feel extra soft and worn in. Over many sweaty afternoons and subsequent rinse cycles, your go-to, going-out tee transitions to become your favorite workout shirt, until it reaches the point where it definitely shouldn’t be seen in public any more. But instead of tossing your ratty old T-shirt into the trash, there are plenty of other—far more sustainable—things you can do with it, including upcycling.   The reason it’s so important to upcycle versus recycle? “Clothing needs to be sorted into groups of similar material content if they’re to be recycled,” says Tiffany Threadgould, head of design at Terracycle, noting that it can be complicated to figure out how to sort your textiles to ensure they end up in the right place. “While many T-shirts are 100 percent cotton there are definitely cotton-poly and 100 percent poly blends, which would mess up a recycling system.” So even if your T-shirts make it into the recycling bin instead of the plain old trash, there’s no guarantee that they’re actually going to be recycled, which is why it’s more sustainable to find a new life for them to live.   Recycling is important, but falls to third place on the list of ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ because it’s more labor intensive,” says Threadgould. “Focusing first on the reduce and reuse is where you can make the most impact. And throwing items away should always be reserved as a last resort, because that depletes precious resources.”   Sure, you can turn your old T-shirts into dish rags, but isn’t it much more fun to put your crafting pants on and transform them into something Pinterest-worthy that you can keep forever? “In general, clothing has sentimental value that can play in to the reuse value of the shirt,” says Threadgould. “Perhaps you’ve outgrown them or they’re stained or faded. With a few cuts and crafty twists, you can reuse that shirt.”   Case in point: Generation T T-shirt guru Megan Nicolay has written two books with more than a hundred different suggestions of what to do with old T-shirts. We whittled the list down to 15 things you can do with old T-shirts that will keep them out of the recycling bin for yet another year. Get those crafting scissors ready!  

1. Turn them into baskets

Woven baskets will run you some big bucks online, but you can make some of your own with some T-shirt fabric and a steady hand. This is more of a 200-level project, but you can learn how to DIY it here.      

2. Give them to your dog

When you’re done with your tees, tie them up and give them to your pup for a toy.    

3. Cut them into headbands

When you feel like you’ve maxed out on the number of times you could wear your favorite workout T-shirt to the gym, cut it up and wear it on your head to keep your sweaty hair out of your face during a workout.    

4. Add some beads

Transition your tee from clothing into a statement accessory by using the strips of fabric as necklace string. Use multiple strands for a piece that really pops.    

5. Sew them into a quilt

Keep all of your favorite sentimental tees close by cutting them into squares and sewing them into a quilt, which will make you feel cozy and nostalgic at the same time.    

6. Use them to hang your plants

Cut your shirts into long strips, then tie them together to hold your favorite hanging plants.      

7. Braid them into bracelets

Cut your T-shirts into thin strips, and use the fabric to make friendship bracelets, which happens to be a truly chill-inducing activity.      

8. Decorate your light fixtures

Give your lamps a bit of boho flair by dressing them up with T-shirt yarn, macrame style.    

9. Make a wall hanging

Another great use for T-shirt yarn? As a wall hanging. Separate your solid color strips into bunches, then tie them around a metal ring (or three) for an accent art piece.      

10. Turn them into tote bags

For a 10-minute T-shirt project you’ll definitely use, turn them into reusable tote bags by cutting off the sleeves and sewing the bottoms together.    

11. Weave them into a rug

Who needs to spend big bucks on an accent rug when you’ve got a bunch of old T-shirts lying around?    

12. Tie dye them

When your white T-shirt just isn’t white anymore, grab a bottle of dye to give it entirely new life.    

13. Turn them into a backpack

Yet another thing you can do with T-shirt fabric: Braid the strands together for the perfect beach backpack, which you’ll want to take everywhere.       

14. Make some pot holders

All you need to do is weave together your T-shirt yarn (remember second grade art class?), and your hands will be forever protected from all that kitchen heat.      

15. Weave a pillow

There are multiple ways you can turn your tee into something to rest your head on. You can sew a pillow into a T-shirt as an easy way to put your favorite graphics on display, or take things to the next level by weaving together strips of fabric in a few different colors and patterns.     If crafting isn’t quite your thing, use your old t-shirts as hair towels as a way to protect your strands and keep them healthy and frizz-free. And when you’re ready to invest in a new white tee, shop our favorites here.

The beauty industry is embracing innovative solutions for tackling waste–and winning more customer loyalty in the process.   There’s no doubt that the beauty industry does a lot of good, from enhancing personal hygiene and contributing to self-esteem, to giving back through charitable causes. There is also no way to ignore the environmental impact packaging from such a massive business has on the Earth. With plastic taking some 400 years to degrade and filling what’s believed to be more than 70 percent of landfills, the prediction that there’ll be more plastic in the ocean than fish by the year 2050 seems devastatingly plausible.   According to TerraCycle, a company that helps brands and individuals recycle and upcycle to reduce the level of unnecessary landfill waste, the global cosmetics industry produces 120 billion units of packaging annually, contributing to the loss of 18 million acres of forest each year.   Motivating consumers to recycle personal care items has challenges. For one, it takes extra effort since these products are often housed in bathrooms, away from the standard kitchen recycle bin. TerraCycle reports that 50 percent of people don’t recycle bathroom waste including shampoo and shower gel bottles because they feel it is inconvenient. That said, the industry has taken responsibility in the past and made an impact. “While statistics are dire, the beauty industry has had success stories with the banning of plastic microbeads in the U.S., U.K. and Canada but has plenty of room for improvement to become environmentally friendly,” says Alex Payne, a spokesperson for TerraCycle.   While swapping plastic for eco-friendly packaging may increase manufacturing costs initially, the increase can likely be offset with potential government subsidies and more customers who prefer sustainable packaging. In fact, the decision to "go green" in formulation, manufacturing practices and packaging could pay off big. Fifty-five percent of people polled in a recent report by J. Walter Thompson Intelligence titled The New Sustainability: Regeneration stated they are more likely to buy beauty products if the company claims to be sustainable. Interestingly, the same report found that 77 percent of people think products with a negative environmental impact should cost more.   Recycling and Reusing   A handful of beauty brands including Burt’s Bees, Eos Products, LimeLife by Alcone and L’Occitane have teamed up with TerraCycle to offer consum- ers easy and free options for recycling. Customers can access a prepaid shipping label from TerraCycle’s website, fill any box with the brand’s cleaned waste and ship it out to be remolded into new products. Herbal Essences, Josie Maran, Garnier, Tom’s of Maine and Weleda are also part of TerraCycle’s free recycling solution. For a fee, TerraCycle offers an option for other cosmetic brands in the form of their zero-waste box. Empty eye shadow palettes, lipstick tubes, makeup brushes and deodorant sticks can be shipped to the company, and thus saved from the landfill.   Just this year, TerraCycle launched an intiative called Loop to introduce a new circular shopping system in Paris and select states within the U.S. designed to eliminate plastic packaging. “The world is in a waste crisis and we can’t recycle our way out of it. We must attack the issue at the root cause, which is single-use packaging,” explains Eric Rosen, spokesperson for Loop. The concept of Loop is like a modern-day milkman delivery system, rebooted with loads of items from personal care to household. Consumers go online and choose the products they’d like to order, which arrive in durable, reusable containers inside Loop’s exclusively designed reusable tote. “Consumers will no longer own the packaging, only the product,” Rosen explains. Beauty brands with products available from Loop include Soapply, Herbal Essences, The Body Shop, Love Beauty and Planet, Ren Clean Skincare and Pantene.   After use, consumers schedule a pickup time and send Loop’s containers to be cleaned, sanitized and reused again and again, removing plastic and shipping cardboard from the equation completely. Loop is currently available in select states and planning on expanding to new cities in 2020. Loop is made possible with the help of partner retailers like Walgreens and Kroger in each market launched. There is no membership or subscription fee; the only cost a consumer incurs is for the product and a refundable deposit for containers, tote and shipping. Brands big and small are stepping up and making commitments to change. Both Unilever and L’Oreìal have promised by the year 2025 to convert plastic packaging to reusable, recyclable or compostable. Esteìe Lauder Companies are on board too, aiming to have 75 to 100 percent of packaging recyclable, reusable or refillable by 2025 and increasing postconsumer recycled material in packaging by up to 50 percent.   Procter & Gamble (P&G) plans to offer 100 percent recyclable packaging by 2030 and has partnered with Loop to offer refillable options. Just this year, P&G’s brand Pantene launched an aluminum bottle for shampoo and conditioner through the service.   Green Materials and Rethinking Plastic   Alternative material options are gaining popularity in the beauty packaging world as brands shift into a “greener” mindset. Bamboo, for example, is biodegradable, compostable and one of the fastest-growing plants in the world. Cosmetic companies like Antonym are using bamboo for eyeshadow and blush palettes and as the base for makeup brushes. Reusable and refillable, glass is an ideal alternative for companies looking to stay clean and minimal, such as RMS Beauty. Like glass, metal is another smart option. Kjaer Weis uses quality metal in makeup palettes meant to be kept and reused as part of the company’s refill system. Already recycled solutions such as paperboard made from recycled paper pulp and recycled plastic are widely used alternatives. Garnier Fructis has adapted this practice for its shampoo and conditioner bottles, with 50 percent of the material coming from postconsumer recycled plastic.   Since plastic isn’t going away overnight, savvy solutions for repurposing are key. The Body Shop recently launched Community Trade recycled plastic from Bengaluru, India, an initiative in partnership with Plastics for Change: “We don’t think plastic–as a material–is bad. In fact, it’s one of the most versatile materials ever made and, if used responsibly, can be sustainable. The problem is when we don’t value plastic and see it as trash, rather than something we can recycle and reuse,” says Lee Mann, global community trade manager for The Body Shop.   With this initiative, The Body Shop also recognizes the human side of the plastic story. The program helps to empower the marginalized waste pickers in Bengaluru, who can receive a fair price for their work, predictable income and access to better working conditions. By the end of the year, The Body Shop will have purchased 250 tons of Community Trade recycled plastic to use in the brand’s 250 milliliter haircare bottles, with plans to scale up purchasing to 900 tons within three years. The bottles created contain 100 percent recycled plastic (excluding the bottle caps) with 15 percent derived from Community Trade recycled plastic. “Brands are starting to be more sustainable and aware of their plastic use. We absolutely want to encourage other brands to start using recycled plastic picked by waste pickers,” Mann says.   It appears that all generations, not just millennials and Generation Z, are taking a stand on sustainability. According to J. Walter Thompson Intelligence’s recent sustainability study, 90 percent of adult consumers think companies and brands have a responsibility to take care of the planet and its people. The same report concluded 91 percent of adults think companies and brands that pollute the environment should be fined.   We have officially entered the age of “less is more.” Retailers must factor sustainability into the brands they work with–and they may even want to go a step further and green their own business. Manufacturers and retailers alike will win by delivering big on product, but light on packaging.

Jan. 20, 2020 Here's a list of things you can do that will lighten your environmental footprint and green up your life! 1. Stop using plastic coffee pods! Use compostable coffee pods or a reusable single cup coffee system, including cotton coffee filters. 2. Minimize household chemicals and waste. Make your own eco-friendly cleaning products: Watch how to make eco-friendly dryer sheets. Watch how to make reusable sweeper pads. Watch how to make a all-natural cleaner with grapefruit and salt. 3. Compost kitchen waste to save landfill space. Create your own compost pile or use one of these local compost services.   4. Replace your lawn with native plants. They don’t need as much water and they support native wildlife. Plant a pollinator garden to provide food for bees and monarch butterflies! Read about North Texans stepping up aid for monarchs. 5. Grow your own organic food. Plant an organic garden even if it’s just a few herbs on your patio. 6. Consume less meat! A plant-based diet is recommended by the UN as the most environmentally friendly, climate-friendly diet.) Not only are you saving animals but a plant-based diet is healthier for you.  Local author Carol Adams has tips for going vegan in middle age but it applies to all ages. 7. Stop drinking bottled water. Use water filters instead.  Read about our favorite water filters. 8. Fix leaky faucets and toilets. Save precious water. 9. Green up your home. Install a programmable thermostat, LED light bulbs and better insulation. 10. Cook your own organic food. It's more sustainable and better for you than eating pre-packaged food. 11. Think before you shop. Choose products made from natural, biodegradable or recyclable materials. Avoid products that will likely just fill up landfill space when their end life is over. 12. Choose quality over convenience. When you need conventional products, choose items that are built to last, made from sustainable materials, have minimal packaging and are energy smart. Here's our list of eco-friendly products for the new year! 13. Minimize trash. Recycle everything that you can. 14. Ramp up your recycling efforts. Look for specialty recycling outlets for items not accepted in recycle bins. For example, plastic bags can be recycled at most grocery stores. Home Depot and Lowes will take batteries and light bulbs. TerraCycle accepts items like toothpaste tubes. Help your school or place of business start a recycling program. Read about how the Fort Worth Botanic Garden set a zero waste goal. 15. Give away rather than throw away. Donate that old couch, stacks of nifty paper, nice clothes, tools. 16. Buy less stuff! Before you buy something, ask yourself - do I really need this? 17. Shop local. Visit the farmer’s market, support small organic farms and food producers. 18. Bring your own shopping bags. Reusable bags are not just for the grocery store. Take them wherever you shop. Keep them by the front door, in your purse or backpack and in your car. 19. Harvest your rainwater. Build your own rain barrel or buy one and use it to water your garden. 20. Drive less. Walk or ride a bike instead of driving. Make each trip count when you do take your car. Carpool! When shopping for a new car, consider an all-electric or a hybrid.

Global Plastic Waste Management Services Market   WiseGuyRerports.com Presents “Global Plastic Waste Management Services Market Insights, Forecast to 2025” New Document to its Studies Database. The Report Contain 158 Pages With Detailed Analysis.   Description   Plastic waste management service is a collective term for various approaches and strategies used to recycle plastic materials that would otherwise be dumped into landfills, or bodies of water, or otherwise contaminate the environment. The idea behind this type of waste management is to utilize those discarded materials to manufacture new plastic products without the need to actually generate additional plastic materials. Doing so can help lower production costs as well as protect the environment.   With shifting preference towards recycled plastic, demand for recycled plastic is anticipated to increase, which in turn, will drive the global plastic waste management market. Various food & beverage companies are focusing on increasing the amount of recycled plastic in their bottles as part of their new sustainable strategy.   Global Plastic Waste Management Services market size will increase to xx Million US$ by 2025, from xx Million US$ in 2018, at a CAGR of xx% during the forecast period. In this study, 2018 has been considered as the base year and 2019 to 2025 as the forecast period to estimate the market size for Plastic Waste Management Services.   This report researches the worldwide Plastic Waste Management Services market size (value, capacity, production and consumption) in key regions like United States, Europe, Asia Pacific (China, Japan) and other regions.   This study categorizes the global Plastic Waste Management Services breakdown data by manufacturers, region, type and application, also analyzes the market status, market share, growth rate, future trends, market drivers, opportunities and challenges, risks and entry barriers, sales channels, distributors and Porter’s Five Forces Analysis.   This report focuses on the top manufacturers’ Plastic Waste Management Services capacity, production, value, price and market share of Plastic Waste Management Services in global market.   The following manufacturers are covered in this report: B.Schoenberg & CO., INC. Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc. REPLAS Clear Path Recycling PLASgran Ltd. Custom Polymers, Inc. Carbon LITE Industries LUXUS Ltd. wTe Corporation KW Plastic, Inc. Kuusakoski Group Shanghai Pret Composites Co., Ltd. Republic Services, Inc. Reprocessed Plastic, Inc. 4G Recycling Inc. Vanden Global Ltd. TerraCycle The WasteCare Group   Plastic Waste Management Services Breakdown Data by Type Thermosetting Thermoplastic Plastic Waste Management Services Breakdown Data by Application Plastic Waste Heat Energy Generation Recycled Plastics Others   Plastic Waste Management Services Production Breakdown Data by Region United States Europe China Japan Other Regions   Plastic Waste Management Services Consumption Breakdown Data by Region North America United States Canada Mexico Asia-Pacific China India Japan South Korea Australia Indonesia Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Europe Germany France UK Italy Russia Rest of Europe Central & South America Brazil Rest of South America Middle East & Africa GCC Countries Turkey Egypt South Africa Rest of Middle East & Africa