TORONTO, /3BL Media/ - Gillette, in partnership with international recycling leader TerraCycle, announce for the first-time in Canada, that all brands of disposable razors, replaceable-blade cartridge units and razor plastic packaging are recyclable on a national scale. Through the innovative partnership consumers are invited to recycle their razors in two ways:

• Gillette Razor Recycling Program - Participants wishing to recycle their razors from home are invited to sign up on the program page https://www.terracycle.com/en-CA/brigades/gillette-razor-recycling-program-ca-en. When ready to ship their waste, they can simply download a free TerraCycle shipping label, package the razors in a secure, puncture proof package and send it to TerraCycle for recycling.

• Gillette Razor Local Recycling Solutions – Businesses, gyms, colleges, cities and community organizations are invited to become public drop-off points for the Gillette Razor Recycling Program. Participants interested in becoming a drop-off point are invited to sign up on the program page https://www.terracycle.com/en-CA/brigades/gillette-razor-retailer-recycling-program-ca-en. After acceptance to the program, they will be sent an exclusive razor recycling bin developed by TerraCycle and Gillette. Once full, they can simply seal and return the bin to TerraCycle via UPS and a new one will be sent back to them. The address listed in the account will be posted on the publicly available map of local recycling solutions on the Gillette Razor Recycling Program page.

“Through this innovative, first of its kind program, disposable razors, replaceable-blade cartridge units and their associated packaging are now nationally recyclable through the Gillette Recycling Program,” said TerraCycle CEO and founder Tom Szaky. “We are proud to partner with this forward-thinking company to offer consumers a way to divert razor waste from landfills.” “We are very excited about our partnership with TerraCycle to offer recycling for Gillette, Venus or any razor brand across Canada. This is an important first step towards sustainable solutions for shaving products and the start of an exciting journey with Gillette and TerraCycle.” said Gillette Canada Leader, Jennifer Seiler. For every shipment of waste sent to TerraCycle through the Gillette Razor Recycling Program or the Gillette Razor Local Recycling Solution, 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. The collected packaging will be recycled into a variety of new consumer products such as park benches, bike racks, pet food bowls and recycling bins. To learn more about the program, please visit www.terracycle.ca. ABOUT GILLETTE For more than 115 years, Gillette has delivered precision technology and unrivalled product performance – improving the lives of over 800 million consumers around the world. From shaving and body grooming, to skin care and sweat protection, Gillette offers a wide variety of products including razors, shave gel (gels, foams and creams), skin care, after shaves, antiperspirants, deodorants and body wash. For more information and the latest news on Gillette, visit www.gillette.com. To see our full selection of products, visit www.gillette.ca. Follow Gillette on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. ABOUT PROCTER & GAMBLE P&G serves consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ambi Pur®, Ariel®, Bounty®, Charmin®, Crest®, Dawn®, Downy®, Fairy®, Febreze®, Gain®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Lenor®, Olay®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, SK-II®, Tide®, Vicks®, and Whisper®. The P&G community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide. Please visit https://www.pg.com/ for the latest news and information about P&G and its brands. About TerraCycle TerraCycle is an innovative waste management company with a mission to eliminate the idea of waste®. Operating nationally across 21 countries, TerraCycle partners with leading consumer product companies, retailers, cities, and facilities to recycle products and packages, from dirty diapers to cigarette butts, that would otherwise end up being landfilled or incinerated. In addition, TerraCycle works with leading consumer product companies to integrate hard to recycle waste streams, such as ocean plastic, into their products and packaging. TerraCycle has won over 200 awards for sustainability and has donated over $44 million to schools and charities since its founding 15 years ago. To learn more about TerraCycle or get involved in its recycling programs, please visit www.terracycle.ca.

Wishing to help the planet, the students of the 5 year old kindergarten at the Meander School are carrying out a nice project of recovering old crayons so that they can be recycled and transformed into objects of everyday life. The project is also educational and growing outside the walls of the institution. Although the project has already been advanced by the Fondation du Méandre, it is anchored this year in the class of teacher Cynthia Lachapelle.   "The project is to collect pencils that contain ink originally and that no longer work," says the teacher. The desired pencils are pens, mechanical pencils, markers, highlighters, permanent markers, dry erase markers and color, with cap or not. The pencils are mine and colored.   After the harvest, the pencils are sent to TerraCycle as part of its vast campaign "Eliminate the Notion of Waste" active in more than 20 countries. The great American firm recovers and transforms, among others, pencils into everyday objects.   "Our goal in class is more educational: we count the pencils, so that at the end of the school year, we will know how much the students have recovered," says Ms. Lachapelle.   Learn through the game   When the pencils end up on the students' table after Mrs. Lachapelle has separated the prizes, in teams of four, according to their learning, they make bales of ten pencils, while others prepare bales of five. The teacher then bundles the packages with a tie.   "We learn how to make groupings so that they can learn to count in a fun way. They do not notice it because it is done by the game. Recycling is also an activity in which they want to get involved. Despite their age, they find it important to help the planet. "   Project of magnitude   Currently, most pencils come from parents. As of October 30, 180 pencils were amassed, counted and sorted.   In addition to primary, is the secondary school directly involved in the project? The teacher replied that energy has so far been channeled to the primary level, which does not prevent interested teachers from joining the project. High school students can easily find a place to drop the pencils.   In the class of Cynthia Lachapelle, 16 students participate in the project as well as a TES (Special Education Technician).   How to participate?   If you have the pencils that no longer work (pens, pencils, markers, highlighters, permanent markers, dry erase markers and colored pencils (they can come with or without the cap that is also recycled) you can route them by your children who will put them in the boxes that we have beautifully decorated. If you do not have children, you can come and bring them to the secretariat of the Meander School where there will be a box too. The pencils can also be deposited in boxes installed at CPE station Les P'tits Budgeons and Caisse Desjardins de la Rouge.

The Green Team at St. Anthony’s School and TerraCycle, an international organization which upcycles garbage, have been offering Kincardine residents an option for items that are not typically accepted in other recycling streams, for six years. TerraCycle has a mission to divert some of the waste that would otherwise end up in the landfill and put it to use again, instead of just throwing it out. “They are not recycling; they call it upcycling,” said Amanda Saxton, a teacher at St. Anthony’s School. “They take an item, break it down into pellets and then create something that will have a long life, like a paving stone or a park bench or watering cans and rain barrels – items that are going to have a long lifespan rather than a single use. Rather than using new resources they are reusing waste.” Saxton said the unique thing about the program is that the items they accept change. TerraCycle is funded by corporations. For example, they had a cookie wrapper brigade which was sponsored by Mr. Christie, but they have recently stopped that program. “It’s positive PR for companies,” she said. “They recognize that they are producing all this waste and there is something they can do about it.” When programs end, it causes some difficulty for Amanda and the Green Team. They have to separate items that are no longer accepted, and many of them end up going to the local landfill. She suggests people look at the current list of accepted items on the Kincardine TerraCycle page. TerraCycle opened the program up to individual groups who could collect items within their communities. The Green Team at St. Anthony’s School saw it as a good opportunity for a school program. “A lot of the waste we were accepting at the time was school lunch waste,” said Saxton, “items such as juice pouches and Lunchables trays.” Then TerraCycle started accepting more items like diaper packages and cereal bags, which were not common items at the school. It was opened up to the community and green bins have been placed through out the municipality. Green bins are currently located at the Tiverton arena near the dumpsters, St. Anthony’s School near the dumpsters, the Kincardine Library front entrance and the Davidson Centre, outside the new entrance. Saxton picks it up about once a month and the students in the Green Team sort it out into individual streams. Then it gets shipped to TerraCycle Canada in Toronto for free. TerraCycle pays approximately one cent per item to the organization. Over the six years since the Green Team started the program, they have earned $2,249.43. The money they receive goes to buy the collection bins and to buy plants and supplies for the Green Team’s butterfly room at St. Anthony’s. It also gets used to bring in environmentally-related guest speakers to the school. “Other companies pick a charity and their money will be donated to them,” said Saxton. “It’s kind of a two-fold benefit.” Currently TerraCycle Kincardine accepts cigarette butts, outer milk bags, personal electronics, dishwasher tab packages, Tilda rice bags, print/toner cartridges, toothbrushes, toothpaste, single use flosses, markers and pens, Nespresso capsules, food pouches, Yves Cuisine packaging, Lunchables trays, Barilla packaging, EOS containers, Europe’s Best packaging, razors and packaging, Love Organics packaging, Febreze products and packaging, and they are now accepting old t-shirts, even it they are ripped, that they can turn into reusable shopping bags. “The problem isn’t so much people putting things in that they think can be TerraCycled,” said Saxton. “It’s when they think our bin is a garbage can and they throw in their coffee … items that leak all over everything … items like milk bags, if they do end up all sticky and gross, they end up in a landfill. That becomes a problem when people put in leaky items that contaminate things.”   St. Anthony’s Green Team and TerraCycle help divert waste from landfill was last modified: November 6th, 2019 by Tammy Schneider

Nov. 9 – Free Recycle and Restring Event Local musicians are invited to attend a free recycle and restring event at Concert Musical Supply in Murfreesboro on Saturday, Nov. 9, from 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Sponsored by D’Addario and international recycling company TerraCycle, musicians can bring any old instrument strings for recycling and get their electric or acoustic guitars restrung with D’Addario NYXL or Nickel Bronze Acoustic strings for free. Old strings collected during the event are recycled through Playback, D’Addario’s recycling program. The collected metal strings will be converted into recycled alloys which are commonly utilized in the construction of guitar necks and the recycled nylon will be used in automotive applications, for instance. For more information on Playback, visit daddario.com/playback. For more information on the recycle and restring event, call 615-896-6518 or visit concertmusicalsupply.com.  

Schools and nature centers in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties are salvaging mounds of the colorful wrappers as part of an environmental awareness campaign. The Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach will gather the wrappers and send them to TerraCycle, a company that collects hard-to-recycle items and finds ways to reuse them. Terracycle will convert the wrappers into school supplies such as notebooks and pencils, Loggerhead spokeswoman Lauren Eissey said. It's the fourth year the Loggerhead center has collected wrappers for the program, which is designed to show the need for improved packaging that is less wasteful. She said Palm Beach County schools collected 92,352 wrappers last year. Collectors can drop off their wrappers at these sites through Monday, Nov. 11: *Summit-Questa Montessori School, 5451 Davie Road, Davie. * NSU University School, 3375 SW 75th Ave., Davie. * West Miami Middle School, 7525 Coral Way, Miami. *Loggerhead Marinelife Center, 14200 U.S. 1, Juno Beach. *Manatee Lagoon, 6000 N. Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach. *FAU Pine Jog Environmental Education Center, 6301 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach. * Gumbo Limbo, 1801 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton. * Sandoway Discover Center, 142 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach.

In the United Kingdom alone, approximately 95 million cups of coffee are consumed daily, with more than one-third of British coffee-drinkers admitting that they dispose of their coffee capsules into trash bins. Roughly 20 billion non-biodegradable, one-cup coffee pods end up in landfills. But Italian espresso giant Lavazza is offering a more eco-friendly alternative — a compostable coffee pod. Non-biodegradable coffee pods are a challenge to recycle because a single capsule is comprised of a mix of materials, including aluminum, foil and especially plastic . Plastic takes up to 500 years before it begins to disintegrate. Related: The problem with coffee pods and the eco-friendly alternatives to use instead Lavazza, meanwhile, is now offering more sustainable coffee pods, called Eco Caps, that are biopolymer-based. In contrast to the non-biodegradable coffee pods, Eco Caps take just six months to degrade. These pods are convenient to dispose of in the food waste bin, depending on your local composting rules. Lavazza has partnered with TerraCycle, a waste collection service that specialized in hard-to-recycle items, to make it easier for Eco Caps to be industrially composted if local composting is not available. The TerraCycle partnership was formed to solve the issue of consumers being generally confused about what can be recycled. Compostable and biodegradable coffee pods are becoming a trend. For instance, online retailer Halo also offers a separate range of compostable pods that are made with paper pulp and sugar cane. “The coffee revolution has happened, and one of the key challenges the industry now faces is the millions of tons of waste created as a result,” explained Richard Hardwick, Halo’s co-founder. “Aluminum and plastic coffee capsules are difficult to recycle, so most of them end up in the bin. And that’s why up to 75 percent are currently being sent to landfill every minute. Most people don’t understand the irreversible damage these coffee capsules are inflicting on the planet.”

Every year, billions of cigarette butts end up littered on roadways, beaches, in parks and just about everywhere else you can imagines. They are toxic and full of chemicals, plastic components and ash that can pollute waterways and harm wildlife. Believe it or not, they are recyclable! The company TerraCycle has collection boxes that will take old igarettes through a recycling program.

05 Nov 2019 --- Italian coffee company Lavazza has introduced Eco Caps, a range of compostable coffee capsules, to address consumers’ rising environmental concerns. To ensure that all coffee capsules are responsibly thrown away, Lavazza is also partnering with TerraCycle to launch a free nationwide program to provide a composting solution for used coffee capsules in the UK. The company aims to replace its entire range of at-home capsules with these new capsules by the end of the year. “The new Lavazza Eco Caps replace the entire range of capsules for home consumption in the UK, without any price difference. This major investment confirms our commitment to product quality and sustainable development,” says David Rogers, UK Managing Director of Lavazza.   The new Lavazza Eco Caps are available in seven taste profiles: Passionale, Qualita Rossa, Lungo Dolce, Tierra Organic, Intenso, Delizioso and Dek Cremoso.   The Eco Caps are available in seven different flavors. The coffee caps are 100 percent industrially compostable and do not affect taste nor quality. According to the company, Lavazza Eco Caps retain their distinctive aroma for longer than other compostable capsules on the market. This is due to the “aroma-safe” technology, which keeps each capsule fresh for up to 18 months.   As packaging waste is often incorrectly disposed of due to unclear recycling labeling, Lavazza and TerraCycle are set to establish a network of publicly accessible coffee capsule drop-off points around the UK, allowing consumers to conveniently dispose of their capsules.   “Currently there is limited availability across the UK in terms of the industrial composting facilities needed to compost many products. Partnering with Lavazza, we provide consumers a simple yet effective way to ensure that the new Lavazza Eco Caps are composted correctly. The resulting material is given a second life as useful nutrient rich compost that bolsters crop growth,” says Laure Cucuron, General Manager, TerraCycle Europe.   Lavazza has made efforts to contribute to a cleaner environment in several different ways. According to the company’s Sustainability Report 2018, it reduced 10 percent of emissions from water consumption in manufacturing plants and corporate management.   As single-use packaging is becoming an increasingly troublesome problem, Lavazza and other companies scout for new packaging innovations and technology to responsibly package consumer goods without affecting shelf-life. Indeed, environmental agencies are pressuring food and beverage industry giants to step up their game.   Cellulose technology developing company PulPac has found a way to replace single-use plastics. In an interview with PackagingInsights, PulPac’s CEO Linus Larssen says the company’s ambition is to “disrupt the packaging industry and set a new and sustainable standard for packaging and single-use products.”   Edited by Anni Schleicher