Last but certainly not least, my favourite part of my skincare routine: oils! While I have experimented with different oils in the past, I’m currently using The Ordinary’s 100% Cold-Pressed Virgin Marula Oil which is packaged in cardboard and glass with a plastic dropper. It’s super hydrating and leaves my face glowing! In terms of the minimal plastic packaging that some of the products I use do contain, I will be recycling through L’Occitane en Provence’s TerraCycle program to recycle my hard-to-recycle plastics.

“GRAYL is committed to designing and manufacturing with a sustainable mindset and in the coming months will implement a zero waste cartridge recycling program in partnership with TerraCycle®. This program will empower customers to trade-in their Purifier Cartridges at end of life and be rewarded with a discount for replacement Purifier Cartridges. The program will be supported online and by many participating retailers.”

Now, her campaign’s focus shifts to education. Champion said it takes six to 10 months to teach people to throw their cigarette butts into a container, rather than tossing them on the sand. Right now, she’s cleaning out each container by herself, then sending the cigarette butts back to their manufacturers through a program called “Terracycle.”

O Campus Fiocruz Mata Atlântica (CFMA) ganhou este mês dois pontos de coleta de instrumentos de escrita. Um fica no Pavilhão Olympio da Fonseca e o outro, no Horto-Escola. A ideia é que funcionários e visitantes coloquem nesses locais materias usados, como lápis, lápis de cor, lapiseira, canetas, hidrocor, borracha, apontador e outros.

Packaging and products made from plastic ocean debris are likely the industry’s ultimate example of lemonade made from lemons. A nearly perfect circular economy model is made real when plastic bottles, for example, made from recovered ocean plastics are turned back into plastic packaging. Whether it’s seen as a glass half full (good, more debris removed!) or half empty (it’s a drop in an endless sea of debris!) proposition, it seems we’re inundated with a growing amount of plastic-products-from-marine pollution, a sampling of which you'll find on the following pages. These appear in essentially chronological order as a kind of chronicle of durable ocean debris recovered and remade into usable plastic products. These are found primarily published by PlasticsToday along with—pardon the expression—current examples from other sources such as sister publications and press releases; sources are PlasticsToday unless otherwise noted.   This market was launched in 2012 when eco-minded, forward-thinking cleaners company Method (San Francisco) entered what were then virgin waters in pioneering packaging from marine pollution.   Appropriately enough, the eureka moment for the company to consider doing such a ground-breaking thing was sparked by a Method executive’s visit to the unexpectedly not-so-pristine beaches of Hawaii.   The company decided to do something about the litter, and literally deployed employees’ boots on the sandy shores in coordinating efforts with local organizations. Volunteers hand-collected several tons of the type of rigid, opaque plastic needed to make this packaging that are most abundant. The debris was shipped to California after sorting. Method had partnered with recycler Envision Plastics to develop a new recycling process to make the bottles. The rest is history because it marked the birth of a brand-new-age, environmentally minded cottage industry. For more on Method’s landmark effort, see Ocean Plastic: Method turns pollution into packaging, published November 2012.          

“We are all so appreciative to have the opportunity afforded to us by TerraCycle, the students have garnered a true understanding of the importance of recycling and the playscape will be a daily reminder to them to continue recycling,” Hawk said. Hawk also said that this contest has brought the entire city together.

Stylos, marqueurs, correcteurs… Et si vous transformiez vos stylos usagés… en bancs publics ! En partenariat avec TerraCycle, la marque Bic finance plus de 4 000 points de collecte en France pour recycler stylos, surligneurs, marqueurs et correcteurs en tube (toutes marques confondues). Les matériaux sont séparés, puis broyés pour être recyclés en mobilier urbain (liste sur le site de TerraCycle).  

Over the course of three months, parents, teachers and students in several states collected recyclable oral care products of every variety in an attempt to win new playground equipment, made from the items gathered through the Colgate and ShopRite Recycled Playground Challenge organized by TerraCycle.

Members, families and guests came before the zoo opened for a light breakfast on the high temperature day which lowered the attendance. But folks who came had fun and brought recyclable items to donate to the TerraCycle program to support the Zoo’s mission to save the environment.

Earlier this year, Häagen-Dazs collaborated with TerraCycle, a global leader in recycling hard-to-recycle materials line ice cream cartons, to release reusable, refillable pints through a sustainability new program called Loop. A special feature of the packaging ensures that the vegan ice cream at the top melts faster than the bottom. Customers looking to further reduce their carbon footprint were able to order the brand’s vegan ice cream through Loop.