Promovido pela Amcham em parceria com o ‘Estadão’, prêmio homenageou 46 projetos de sustentabilidade empresarial desenvolvidos no País

Anunciado no Fórum Econômico Mundial em Davos em janeiro deste ano, o Loop é um novo esquema criado pela TerraCycle para reabastecer em vez de reciclar as embalagens do dia a dia.

E vamos encerrar a semana com mais uma matéria sobre ideias inovadoras que ajudam a acabar com o desperdício de plástico. E por que não? Esse tem sido um dos temas mais em voga dos últimos tempos e podemos observar uma nova onda de consciência sobre o que é a poluição, a situação dos oceanos, o meio ambiente e as mudanças climáticas.

A partir de agora, Santo Antônio da Patrulha integra o sistema apresentado pela TerraCycle, programa que atende 21 países e recicla o “não reciclável” comumente. Conforme a diretora de Meio Ambiente da prefeitura, Jordana Borba, com isso, a secretaria municipal da Agricultura e Meio Ambiente amplia o cuidado com as questões ambientais.

From March 1 to April 13, resident design visionaries TerraCycle® and the Trenton Downtown Association will present “Scrapped: A Collection of Upcycled Artwork.” Designed to encourage viewers to question their day-to-day lifestyle and their impact on the planet, the exhibit, located at the BSB Gallery in Trenton, curates artwork created entirely from reclaimed materials.

“Creativity and community are at the heart of what we do, so when the Trenton Downtown Association approached us about the chance to showcase the transformative nature of art in the city,we jumped at the opportunity,” said TerraCycle CEO and founder Tom Szaky “From hosting our very first annual graffiti jam 15 years ago to decking out global offices in what many would consider “trash,” Scrapped is in line with our mission to change perspectives and connect people through shared experiences.”

The collection of upcycled art, which includes on-site installations and mixed media pieces of varying scales and styles, illustrates the power of unconventional thoughtand includes works from acclaimed artists Leon Rainbow, Ede Sinkovics, Heemin Moon as well as TerraCycle employees. All the featured art utilizes discarded and otherwise “scrapped” materials including old and broken toys, littered plastic collected off of beaches and shorelines, wine corks and cigarette butts, to name only a few.

Scrapped will debut with an opening reception at the BSB Gallery on Friday, March 1, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., where TerraCycle will discuss its mission Eliminating the Idea of Waste®, how it has diverted over seven billion pieces of traditionally unrecyclable waste from landfills and unveil a special collaborative work put together by its employees using found materials.

“Over the last decade Trenton has reinvented itself as a budding destination for the arts,” said Tom Gilmour, Executive Director of the Trenton Downtown Association. “Through grant funding generously provided by the George H. and Estelle M. Sands Foundation and Isles, Inc., the Trenton Downtown Association opened the BSB Gallery to support local artist, curate exhibits like Scrapped and act as a platform to recognize all the extraordinary art being created in our Capital City.”

The club donates gently-used balls to The First Tee, a Salinas-based nonprofit that teaches life skills through golf. Older balls are recycled through Terracycle, a New Jersey-based recycling company.

Working on its dedication to develop solutions for sustainable laundry, recently, Tide revealed its partnership with TerraCycle, an international recycler. As per TerraCycle, the new joint venture will help the latest Eco-Box packaging to be completely reusable from bag to box. Latest Tide Eco-Box is designed in such a way that it is eco-friendly. The new highly-concentrated formula of Tide is developed with thirty percent less water & its package has sixty percent less plastic as compared to the bottled size. The modernized boxed design doesn’t need excessive secondary packaging & needs minimum space compared to the bottle. This means that less trucks are required to deliver it to the shops. Isaac Hellemn who is P&G’s Brand Manager stated that the next logical step for them is TerraCycle because they want to assure that not only the product is developed for environment friendly usage & shipping, but also that every single component can be recycled and recycled with the help of a simplified method. With the help of Tide Eco-Box Recycling Program, customers can reuse the complete packaging from Eco-Box for no cost. Once they are done with Eco-Box, consumers can remove waste of plastic from cardboard box & mail it with the help of shipping label, which is already paid for. After collection, plastic is cleaned & melted into hard plastic, which can be reused to create novel recycled products. Moreover, every pound of waste sent to TerraCycle, collectors can get a dollar which can be donated to a non-profit, charitable firm or school of their preference. In order to recycle cardboard box, consumers can put in their address into the interactive map at terracycle.com & look for recycling choices, which includes drop-off areas of TerraCycle & municipal recycling programs. Tom Szaky who is Chief Executive Officer of TerraCycle stated that every year over seventy-nine percent of waste which is present in landfills can be recycled. TerraCycle with firms such as Tide, puts in a lot of efforts every day to decrease the number & combine single-use packaging into novel products. The proposed recycling program is open to anyone, be it school, community firm, office or individual. It is predicted that the pilot program will be introduced in Paris metro area this spring and also in New York, which includes areas of Pennsylvania & New Jersey.

Com uma necessidade cada vez maior das grandes empresas trabalharem com sustentabilidade, surgiu a TerraCycle, uma companhia especializada em reciclagem.

Hoje parece muito hype fazer compostagem caseira e ter canudinhos reutilizáveis. Mas gerações atrás tinham hábitos ecologicamente muito mais corretos e viáveis do que os atuais.

It means everything that would come on campus could either be composted, recycled or repurposed into something else.   Author: Nina Mehlhaf Published: 6:06 PM PST February 20, 2019 PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon has always been a leader when it comes to recycling, but there's a lot of stuff you can't throw in your curbside bin. Jesuit High School in Portland is trying change that for their families. The private, Catholic school has an ambitious plan to become a "zero waste" school. It means everything that would come on campus could either be composted, recycled or repurposed into something else. Recycling is already front and center in their cafeterias. There's the normal receptacles for paper and cans. But new bins collect odd plastics brought from home by students. Those can't go to the city curbside. They are destined for a conveyor belt across the country in New Jersey.     A revolutionary company called Terra Cycle is teaming up with schools and businesses nationwide to get those drink pouches or markers shipped here. They're shredded into tiny bits, then pummeled into pellets. Those pellets are bought by other companies to be made into new plastic products: gardening or garbage cans, frisbees, plates, the options are endless.     "Ideally we're going towards becoming a zero waste school, which is a huge undertaking because it means everything we take into the school has an end purpose and an end life," said Jesuit physics teacher Jennie Kuenz, who's headed up the recycling program. It's become a movement that kids are getting behind. A few years ago, the school started an environmental science elective class. Grace Wetzler is a junior and has taken the class. "We made a water filter and studied micro-plastics in the ocean and that kind of inspired me to look at what we throw away and how that pretty much ends up in the ocean," she said. Alex Guitteiu, a senior, agrees. "Yeah it's definitely a mindset shift. I think it has to do with your perception of when you throw something away, what happens to that." "You can see students applying what they have learned and internalizing it and recognizing that their decisions actually matter," says Kuenz. Becoming zero waste will realistically be a 10-year process, but Jesuit could become the first Oregon school to do it. They're already switching to refillable dry erase markers, looking at pumps instead of packets for ketchup and mustard, and yes, straws are going bye-bye. Students are on board, knowing the future relies on them. "If my generation doesn't start fixing all our problems, nobody is going to fix it, now is the time," said junior Elizabeth Kapellakis.