“Green Palace” is a new site-specific art installation on view at the BSB Gallery through Saturday, April 13. Created by Korean artist Heemin Moon and collaborator Dorothy McNee of Lawrenceville, the three-dimensional artwork offers visitors “an intimate world of exotic creatures, iridescent lighting, metallic finishes, and sustainable materials,” say BSB Gallery press materials. Moon works in both graphic and fine arts and has exhibited internationally. McNee is the owner of ITS Group (International Textile Group) and is Moon’s contact for special projects. The Green Palace was designed specifically for the vault at the BSB Gallery, the former Broad Street Bank building. The installation complements the BSB’s current exhibition “Scrapped” — created in cooperation with artists connected with TerraCycle, the Trenton-based company that repurposes waste materials to create internationally sold products. BSB Gallery, 143 East State Street. “Scrapped” is on view through Saturday, April 13. www.bsbgallery.com

(EMAILWIRE.COM, March 31, 2019 ) Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures® (BSBF) reaches children around the world with free dental screenings and oral health education. Colgate’s commitment to building a lifetime of healthy habits provides children with burgeoning self-esteem and a foundation for success - that's the Power of a Bright Smile. In the United States, Colgate’s classroom curriculum reaches nearly nine out of every 10 kindergarten students each year, 3.5 million children in all 50 states, and more than 10 million children through their mobile dental van program. Today, the Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures® educational curriculum is available in 30 languages. In many countries it has become a part of the permanent school curriculum. In partnership with Terra Cycle, Kids in Need Foundation and Sam’s Club, Colgate’s BSBF program, brings supplies to under-served communities in Arkansas. Step and Repeat LA printed fun and educational backdrops for Arlington Elementary School’s first Colgate BSBF awards. Brandon Carr, football player for the Baltimore Ravens, spent the morning with hundreds of kids who hit the Colgate red carpet at the Colgate Bright Smiles Kids Awards. Step and Repeat LA is the company to turn to if you need quality work and fast turnarounds. Meeting rush-order deadlines and shipping in 24 hours are just two of their capabilities. This company has an impressive variety of high-quality products including custom backdrops, carpetsin 13 colors, stanchions, media walls, and photo booth rentals. In the Los Angeles area, they will also deliver, set up and take down media walls, backdrops, and red-carpet displays, but they also ship their products throughout the country – just like they did for the kids at Arlington Elementary School in Arkansas.

Natural Habitat Adventures wants to reduce the national park’s staggering amount of waste—and give you an awesome summer safari

JEN MURPHY

  The leave-no-trace concept sounds simple, yet each year, over 100 million pounds of waste is generated in national parks. Natural Habitat Adventures, the world’s first carbon-neutral travel company, aims to reduce that number with a new zero-waste safari in Yellowstone National Park. More than a year of research went into this industry-first expedition. The goal, says the company’s sustainability director, Court Whelan, is to divert 99% or more of all on-trip waste produced throughout the week. From your glamping base just outside of Big Sky, Montana, you’ll dine on locally sourced foods without plastic plates, cups, or straws and scrape leftovers into a compost pile after each meal. Everything that can’t be recycled or composted locally will be brought back to the company’s headquarters in Boulder, Colorado, and handed off to TerraCycle, a company that recycles otherwise unprocessable waste. The hope is that you’ll leave with memories of bison, elk, and wolf encounters as well as new habits you can use back home. From $5,695; July 6–12.  

Take It Home

The average American produces 4.4 pounds of trash per day, says Court Whelan. Here are three things you can do at home to get closer to zero waste:   Compost. Making the extra effort to separate compostables and take them to the curb or to a local composting facility drastically decreases the amount of waste we send to landfill.   Forgo Plastic. Set a goal of purchasing fewer single-use plastics such as food containers, travel toiletries, and water bottles. Take a stand against purchasing plastic bags, straws, and cotton swabs, which often end up in our oceans.   Recycle. Find out if there are alternative recycling facilities, like TerraCycle, for items that can’t go into your home single-stream container.

Middleburg reflects on its first year of recycling cigarette butts. (Published Monday, Apr 1, 2019 | Credit: Northern Virginia Burea

Local musicians are invited to attend a free recycle and restring event at Dietze Music in Lincoln, NE on Saturday April 6, 2019 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM. Sponsored by D’Addario and 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. Old strings collected during the event will be recycled through Playback, D’Addario’s free, national recycling program.

•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-US/brigades/gillette-local-recycling. 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.

New Loop circular platform promotes reusable consumer product packaging

BRISTOL - The students of Mountain View Elementary School need a new playscape and Principal Mary Hawk wants your help.   Hawk said the school has signed up for an online contest where people can vote daily for their favorite school to win new playground equipment.   Colgate, ShopRite, and TerraCycle, a recycling company that specializes in hard-to-recycle waste, are running the contest, in which one school can win a colorful new playscape made from recycled materials, with a retail value of $55,000.   The prize for the first runner-up school is a village playhouse and slide made from recycled materials, with a retail value of $25,000.   The second runner-up school will get a ShopRite gift card for $1,250. The next six runner-up schools will each receive a ShopRite gift card for $150.   The recycled materials used are oral care waste, according to the contest website. These consist of toothpaste tubes and caps, toothbrushes, toothpaste cartons, toothbrush outer packaging, and floss containers, which are shredded and melted into hard plastic that can be remolded into new products.   The regional contest is running now through June 30, when the winners will be announced. Mountain View is the frontrunner.   There are two ways to help Mountain View.   1. Vote for the school daily at the contest website https://www.terracycle.com/en-US/contests/colgateshopriteplayground2019.   Participants can vote daily using and every separate email address counts as a vote. The first vote will require you to confirm your email to make the vote count. After that, each vote is a click.   2. Send Mountain View your oral care containers to recycle.   Each vote will count as one Playground Credit and each unit of used, post-consumer oral care waste will count as one Playground Credit. A “unit” is defined as 0.02 pounds of used, post-consumer oral care products and packaging.   The kids are all bringing in their used toothpaste tubes now, and they’re getting a good message about recycling as well, Hawk said.   If people want to donate their recyclable dental materials, they can just bring it to the school anytime during the school day, she said. “We would love to have other people in the community contribute, that would be wonderful.”   Hawk said if a dental office, nursing home, hospital, or any organization that uses dental supplies wants to donate, “we will go pick it up from them.”   Mountain View has been looking to replace its rusting, corroded playscape since 2017 when Pete Fusco, director of grounds, did an inspection and declared it unsafe. The pre-kindergarten kids have their own playground, which is usable, but the older students just have hopscotch, basketball courts, and other games painted on the blacktop nearby.   Right now there is just a pile of dirt where the old playscape was behind the school. It was 30 years old and was attacked by vandals at night, leaving sharp jagged holes. Hawk said it would have cost as much as $10,000 to repair.   Tabacco & Sons Builders volunteered to remove the pieces and bring them to Liberty Recycling, but in the end the school didn’t even get money from the scrap metal because there was so much cement attached to it, she said.   Since then, the school has been fundraising for a new playscape, she said. “They’re are just incredibly expensive. They range from $40,000 to $120,000, so it’s a monumental task to try to raise all the money.”   Mountain Drive isn’t the only local elementary school in the contest. Ivy Drive, South Side, and Stafford are too, though they are farther down in the competition: Ivy Drive is currently at seventh place, South Side is 19th, and Stafford is 21st.   “But they already have playscapes,” Hawk said. “We just have a pile of dirt.”   Susan Corica can be reached at 860-973-1802 or scorica@bristolpress.com.  

O que para muitos pode ser considerado lixo, para outros pode ser considerado luxo. E com o Upcyclingisso se torna possível transformando resíduos têxteis em roupas novas. Mas, como? A expressão vem do inglês, que traduzido para o português pode ser entendido como a capacidade de reaproveitar descartes, cujo destino seria o lixo, para a confecção de novos produtos sem o uso de energia.