Sandi Smith, development and marketing coordinator for MCBP, said the organization will work with TerraCycle to recycle the butts. The company provides free shipping and donates a dollar to the Keep America Beautiful Cigarette Litter Prevention Program for every pound of discarded cigarettes that are collected.

Every single toothbrush ever used is still somewhere on our planet. It’s gross and completely avoidable. Replacing your plastic toothbrush with a bamboo, compostable one is an easy step toward making your bathroom a single-use, plastic-free zone, as is replacing any single-use plastic razors with stainless steel alternatives.   Unfortunately, there isn’t much in terms of sustainable packaging for cosmetics, and what’s available is often expensive. That said, try to find out if any of your favorite brands offer a refill program (plenty do, and normally at a discount), or whether they have a recycling service. Garnier, for example, has partnered with TerraCycle and DoSomething.org on their Rinse, Recycle, Repeat program which aims to keep empty bottles out of landfills.

Hillside Grad School placed second last month in a Save Water Garden promotion courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive, ShopRite, and recycling company TerraCycle.

Hillside Grade School in New Hyde Park won a new garden made from recycled oral care waste through this year's "Save Water Garden" promotion, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive ( "Colgate"), the global oral care leader; ShopRite, which has more than 270 stores in the Northeast; and recycling company TerraCycle.

The cigarette butts will be recycled through TerraCycle, which recycles them into a variety of industrial products, such as park benches. St. Johnsbury and Lyndonville will receive funds from this recycling program to utilize within their own communities.

Hillside Grade School in New Hyde Park won a new garden made from recycled oral care waste through this year's "Save Water Garden" promotion, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive ( "Colgate"), the global oral care leader; ShopRite, which has more than 270 stores in the Northeast; and recycling company TerraCycle.

With the goal of reducing waste, Keep Golden Isles Beautiful’s 2018 School Recycling Challenge did just that. This fall, 11 local schools took part in the challenge to collect non-traditional items for recycling. By collecting items not accepted in local curbside recycling programs, participating schools had an immediate impact on reducing landfill waste. In just two short weeks, students collected more than 155 pounds of oral care products, pens, markers, highlighters and cereal bags — all diverted from the landfill and sent to be recycled at TerraCycle.