CARE, for Cups Are REcyclable, collects and compresses foam cups, then sends them to the Dart Container Corp. for processing into picture frames and crown molding, and TerraCycle turns discarded cigarette butts into plastic shipping pallets, park benches and picnic tables.
CARE, for Cups Are REcyclable, collects and compresses foam cups, then sends them to the Dart Container Corp. for processing into picture frames and crown molding, and TerraCycle turns discarded cigarette butts into plastic shipping pallets, park benches and picnic tables.
CARE, for Cups Are REcyclable, collects and compresses foam cups, then sends them to the Dart Container Corp. for processing into picture frames and crown molding, and TerraCycle turns discarded cigarette butts into plastic shipping pallets, park benches and picnic tables.
Terracycle, a New Jersey-based company, will then separate the ash, tobacco and rolling paper and turn all of it into industrial fertilizer. The cigarette filters will help create plastic shipping palettes and outdoor furniture. What’s more, 60,000 butts make a park bench and 165,000 a picnic table, Gusoff reported.
“The amount of high-end PCR (postconsumer resin) available on the market is finite,” said Brett Stevens, global vice president of material sales and procurement at Trenton, New Jersey-based
TerraCycle. “The reason it’s finite is because curbside collection levels are stable. If levels are stable and producers are oversold, where is the supply coming from?”
You’ve finished your Garnier Fructis Style Curl Treat. Now place it in a box, print a free shipping label at
TerraCycle.com, and mail it. The program turns the plastic into raised beds, lumber, and more for Garnier Green Gardens.
Se não fizer nada na pessoa física, nada vai mudar
– coloca Marcelo Ebert da YVY, um dos integrantes do Painel: Economia Circular, Muito Além da Reciclagem, parte da programação do Encontro Lixo Zero São Paulo 2019. Ele se refere às mudanças de comportamento que estão viabilizando novos produtos e serviços com impacto ambiental reduzido, nulo ou até regenerativo. “É uma mudança gigante, mas muito rápida” – arremata Marcelo.
The drug-store chain is partnering with the waste management company TerraCycle, Starlight Children's Foundation and Colgate-Palmolive in the nationwide recycling effort. The state that collects the most waste will win a new playground, made from recycled oral waste, at a Starlight Children's Foundation member hospital.
The drug-store chain is partnering with the waste management company TerraCycle, Starlight Children's Foundation and Colgate-Palmolive in the nationwide recycling effort. The state that collects the most waste will win a new playground, made from recycled oral waste, at a Starlight Children's Foundation member hospital.
The drug-store chain is partnering with the waste management company TerraCycle, Starlight Children's Foundation and Colgate-Palmolive in the nationwide recycling effort. The state that collects the most waste will win a new playground, made from recycled oral waste, at a Starlight Children's Foundation member hospital.
