Itens domésticos reciclados, da embalagem ao vestuário e pontas de cigarro, cada vez mais itens do dia-a-dia que antes eram destinados a aterros estão sendo reciclados, compostados ou reciclados de maneiras criativas. Muitos dos novos produtos feitos a partir de resíduos estão encontrando seu caminho nas passarelas e em museus de design e residências.

When giving talks to college students at different universities, I find that most students are looking to align their lives with a cause greater than themselves.  Among these, many could not be more enthusiastic about playing a role in global poverty alleviation. Enthusiasm isn’t the problem. The problem is what role. Particularly for young adults who are making challenging vocational decisions, the maze of options and opportunities today can become paralyzing.  In response, I have developed some vocational bins in the larger space of international development and poverty work that represents a condensed excerpt from a chapter in my forthcoming 2019 book, Shrewd Samaritan.  Each, if engaged with head and heart, represent important and legitimate roles that individuals can play in the larger effort of helping people to flourish and live with dignity across our planet. These roles I call (a) investigators, (b) givers, (c) advocates, (d) creators, (e) directors, and (f) practitioners.

This special report will argue that waste generation is increasing too fast and needs to be decoupled from economic growth and rising living standards. That will require people to throw away less and reuse more—to make economies more “circular”, as campaigners say. This can only happen if people “equate the circular economy with making money”, claims Tom Szaky of Terracycle, which develops technologies to use hard-to-recycle materials. “Take, make, dispose” must now shift to “reduce, reuse, recycle”, he says.  

When the Savannah Trash Warriors targeted the Parkside neighborhood just south of Daffin Park on a recent Saturday, about eight neighbors joined them, separating trash and recycling into separate buckets as they went. The group also separates cigarette butts, which are made of a type of plastic that doesn’t degrade easily, to send to recycler Terra Cycle

From September 1 to December 31, TerraCycle is kicking off the new school year with a huge giveaway with Entenmann’s Little Bites® ***The grand prize winner will be awarded 50 boxes of Little Bites®, four custom collection bins, $500 in TerraCycle points and more!

More information about the Entenmann’s® Little Bites® and TerraCycle contest can be found at https://www.terracycle.com/en-US/contests/small-bites-big-collections

From September 1 to December 31, TerraCycle is kicking off the new school year with a huge giveaway with Entenmann’s Little Bites® The grand prize winner will be awarded 50 boxes of Little Bites®, four custom collection bins, $500 in TerraCycle points and more!

From September 1 to December 31, TerraCycle is kicking off the new school year with a huge giveaway with Entenmann’s Little Bites. The grand prize winner will be awarded 50 boxes of Little bites, four custom collection bins, $500 in TerraCycle points and more! Visit HERE to learn more about the Small Bites, Big Collection  giveaway. Be sure to keep an out for Entenmann’s® Little Bites® Pumpkin Muffins at a retailer near you! They’re only here for a limited time.

You probably already recycle all your plastic and glass bottles, cardboard packaging and metal cans. You may even have a compost pile in your yard, to recycle food waste. If you do, pat yourself on the back! Good job! Recycling helps to conserve resources, saves energy, protects the environment and reduces the amount of trash in our landfills.   But what if there were other recyclable items in your home, right under your nose, that you simply didn’t know about? While we are doing A LOT, we could be doing more to increase the amount of waste we recycle, and decrease waste being sent to the landfill.