TerraCycle specialises in converting traditionally non-recyclable waste such as cigarette butts, coffee capsules and cosmetic packaging into new products, including playgrounds and garden beds. Their Colgate Community Garden Challenge with New Zealand schools aims to divert tens of thousands of toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes from the landfill.

This event occurred on Saturday, August 11th, 2018 @ 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm TerraCycle Free http://www.jerseyfreshjam.com       TerraCycle headquarters located at 121 New York Avenue in Trenton is hosting the 13th annual Jersey Fresh Jam, an all-day celebration of hip hop and urban art, Saturday, August 11 from noon-7 p.m.   Attendees of this free, all-ages event can enjoy: + Musical performances from over a a dozen hip hop artists, including Ren Thomas (featured on VH1's Signed), Tina Roy and Solo For Dolo + Live graffiti and wall writing from more than 50 artists + Local food vendors   Event Details: Saturday, August 11 – noon to 7pm. The event is held at TerraCycle HQ, 121 New York Avenue, Trenton, N.J. 08638. (Rain Date: Sunday, August 12).   For more information about the event, visit: www.jerseyfreshjam.com   Contact: Veronica Rajadnya Veronica.Rajadnya@terracycle.com 609-393-4252

Back-to-school time is almost upon us, and that means you’re probably in the midst of amassing school supplies for your kids. You may have markers on your shopping list — markers for coloring, markers for labeling your kids’ backpacks and more. Just remember that when those markers dry up or run out of ink, you can do more than just throw them away. Did you know that markers can actually be recycled? In case you didn’t. this Hawaii-based mom has taken to social media to raise awareness around this recycling opportunity. Hali McCloud posted a friendly reminder to Facebook, and it has since gone viral. The post has been shared over 300,000 times, so this is clearly an update that parents needed to hear. “15 pounds of dead markers that will not end up in Maui’s landfill or ocean,” the mom captioned a photo of a box full of markers. She went on tell parents about a way they can recycle these products to make sure they never wind up in a landfill or natural area, through a program called ColorCycle. “Did you know that Crayola has a program called ColorCycle?” she writes. “If you collect the dead markers, they’ll send you a free shipping label and you can ship them back to Crayola to be recycled! My kids found out about this and were so excited to set up boxes at their schools.” According to the post, these markers were collected in just three months — so just imagine how many markers schools across the world go through in an entire school year. According to The University of Southern Indiana, 1.6 billion pens wind up in landfills each year. If the recycling haul at the preschool McCloud’s kids attend is any indication, there’s a huge need for recycling programs like the one Crayola offers. Thankfully, ColorCycle isn’t the only program of its kind out there.

Other Recycling Options

Recycle Nation reports that markers are difficult to recycle at home because doing so requires that the felt tip and ink cartridges be removed. But companies exist that are willing to do that work for you.  

  In addition to ColorCycle, the Prang Power Recycling Program offers collection and recycling services for Prang-branded art markers, and TerraCycle is great for schools or other entities with large amounts of markers ready to be recycled. They’ll send packages to fill up with your dried-up markers and will even host recycling events so people can bring their recyclables from home. Visit these companies’ websites to find out how to get those pre-paid shipping materials for your old markers. Or share this information with a school official and see if you can get your child’s school involved!

Art enthusiasts of all ages are invited to attend a free, all-day celebration of live painting and hip-hop music at TerraCycle headquarters in Trenton Saturday, August 11, noon-7pm. The 13th Annual Jersey Fresh Jam is New Jersey’s premier urban arts festival.

Celebrating a music genre that might sometimes get lost within the see of Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi fans in the area comes the Jersey Fresh Graffiti Jam, an event held in Trenton that is all-day, all-ages, and all-inclusive. The event is taking the four main components of hip-hop and putting them all in one place for people to explore and enjoy: DJing, MCing, graffiti art, and breakdancing. These four elements make up the culture and genre that is hip-hop, making it a celebration of its roots and the love people have had for it for decades. With over a dozen musical performances, tens of food vendors, and over 50 graffiti artists, what will be seen is an expression and an appreciation that will surely bring the community together. The Terracycle HQ in Trenton is hosting the über fun, eclectic urban arts event this Saturday, August 11 from noon until 7 p.m.

Consumers can bring their beauty and skin care products and packaging to participating L’Occitane en Provence retail locations to be diverted from landfills through proper handling... If you don’t have a retail location nearby, another solution is TerraCycle’s Zero Waste Box*, an easy to use product for nearly every waste stream, including personal care and beauty products.

TerraCycle is utilising an EPA-approved sterilisation technology to enable the recycling of used sharps collected at hospitals across America. This is described as a commercial steam disinfection (autoclave) method. The sharps are subsequently separated into different categories; metals, plastics and glass.

Sharps become the latest difficult-to-recycle material the company will process   TRENTON, N.J., (August 8, 2018)– Medical waste (in the form of used sharps) has become the latest difficult-to-recycle recycling program at TerraCycle, as the company continues to add waste streams to its product list.  Utilizing EPA-approved sterilization technology, the company has developed a system that provides contaminant exposure protection and high-efficiency material recovery. The regulated waste division of TerraCycle has created a sharps container and shipping carton system available in a variety of sizes.  The puncture-resistant sharps containers are approved for use by both UPS and the US Postal Service when shipped within the corresponding carton.  Sizes range from a 1.4-quart container for home use to a commercial 28-gallon system.  Like its Zero Waste Box programs, the medwaste boxes are postage-prepaid—the customer simply fills the sharps container, boxes it and calls UPS or USPS for a pickup. “This is an exciting addition to the regulated waste offerings at TerraCycle,” explains Bobby Farris, General Manager of TerraCycle Regulated Waste, “We’re providing a real alternative to incineration for medwaste customers who want to see the materials recycled.” According to the World Health Organization, as much as 90% of all medical waste is incinerated, even though only 15% of it is actually considered biologically hazardous.  Originally, it was thought that destroying medical waste through incineration destroyed the known pathogens, but more recent science suggests the process exposes the environment to potential contaminants in the form of microscopic particulate emitted in the process exhaust.  Furthermore, the resulting ash and byproducts are not easily recouped for recycling or reuse and are often landfilled.

To protect the population and environment, the EPA has begun to promote the use of “Alternative Treatment and Disposal Technologies for Medical Waste.”   By utilizing commercial steam disinfection (autoclave) of medical waste and then processing the sharps to separate metals, plastics and glass, TerraCycle is able to reclaim valuable materials and divert waste from the landfill.  The system provides better, more measurable elimination of biohazards and lessens the linear use of resources.

Marks First Acquisition in TerraCycle History   TRENTON, N.J. – TerraCycle US Inc., a leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste, announced it has acquired Chicago-based Air Cycle Corporation, a leader in universal waste recycling that provides solutions for mercury-containing fluorescent bulbs, battery, ballast and electronic waste disposal. “Adding Air Cycle to TerraCycle’s core business means that we can now offer, for the first time, the collection and recycling of products mandated for disposal by federal regulations,” said TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky. Air Cycle and its two decades of experience in the industry, will join the TerraCycle Regulated Waste business unit and will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of TerraCycle US, Inc. In its new capacity the company will continue to offer lamp recycling products and services worldwide based on three recycling programs:

• Bulb Eater® – Designed and manufactured for facilities that dispose of large quantities of lamps, the Bulb Eater was developed to crush spent fluorescent bulbs into small fragments and compress the waste into 55-gallon drums. Each Bulb Eater unit is built around a filtration system that ensures both OSHA and EPA compliance, as well as greatly reduces costs associated with the storage, handling and recycling of the lamps.

• EasyPak™ Recycling Program – The EasyPak recycling program is offered as an alternative for customers who generate smaller quantities of spent lamps, batteries, and/or ballasts. Available in a variety of sizes, the EasyPak boxes are shipped by customers, through pre-paid UPS Ground transportation services, to recycling centers for processing.

National Bulk Recycling – Designed to offer nationwide bulk pick-up and recycling services for companies with large amounts of intact lamps, ballasts, batteries, electronic waste and the crushed lamps generated by the Bulb Eater. Once the waste has been recycled, a Certificate of Recycling, which confirms the proper handling of the waste, will be provided. “Due to Federal EPA regulations on fluorescent and mercury vapor lamps, non-residential facilities are required by law to properly dispose of their lamps” said Bobby Farris, General Manager of TerraCycle Regulated Waste. “This acquisition puts the company in a unique position to meet those regulated waste needs, as well as offer our clients a vast range of other voluntary and customized recycling services.” 

TRENTON, N.J. – TerraCycle US Inc., a leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste, announced it has acquired Chicago-based Air Cycle Corporation, a leader in universal waste recycling that provides solutions for mercury-containing fluorescent bulbs, battery, ballast and electronic waste disposal.