L'Occitane en Provence, a beauty company with high-quality skincare, body care and fragrance, is now giving consumers a free way to recycle all brands of beauty and skin care packaging. Through the L’Occitane Recycling Program, in partnership with TerraCycle, consumers can now drop off all brands of empty personal care and cosmetics packaging at participating L’Occitane full-price retail locations across the U.S. to divert these items from landfills and receive a 10 percent discount toward one full-size product purchased that same day.

Trying to recycle everything—including hard-to-recycle items like coffee pods and cigarette butts—can come at a high cost... Businesses like TerraCycle act like a go-between, approaching companies making hard-to-recycle products and asking them to pay the cost of recycling. In return consumers can send the products off to a private recycling plant for free, and they feel good about it.

There might be a way to recycle those coffee pods after all. A company called TerraCycle aims to "recycle everything" — from cigarette butts to squeeze pouches. It's funded by the brands selling hard-to-recycle products and consumers willing to cover shipping costs.

One issue plaguing recycling efforts is the fact that only certain waste is accepted for recycling while the rest has to be thrown away. DaVita Kidney Care Center, a Tacoma-based treatment center, is offering its employees a way to recycle their traditionally non-recyclable waste easily and sustainably with TerraCycle’s Kitchen Separation Zero Waste Boxes.

Tom Szaky, Chief Executive Officer @ TerraCycle, Canada--His company is the global leader in the collection and recycling of post-consumer waste that typically ends up in a landfill. He has developed a unique business model that offers free recycling programs funded by brands, manufacturers, and retailers around the world.

If you buy pet snacks and treats, they usually come in plastic pouches. These are primarily polyethylene but contain other materials, so they don’t belong in grocery store bag recycling bins. You’ll need to find a TerraCycle brigade to recycle these products, and there aren’t currently any pet food pouch programs.

Kylie Jenner may have only been a mom for three months, but close family friend La La Anthony, who hung out with the KarJenners at a Business of Fashion dinner Tuesday night in NYC, says the 20-year-old star already has motherhood “down pat.” “She should be giving me mommy advice!” Anthony, who’s mom to 11-year-old son with Carmelo Anthony, Kiyan, told PEOPLE at Thursday’s Arm Hammer event to announce the brand’s new partnership with TerraCycle, which will be re-purposing packaging into new garden planters for the star’s elementary school in Brooklyn.  

Como una iniciativa del Centro de Excelencia de Sostenibilidad de Hasbro, la compañía de juguetes infantiles, junto con la experta en reciclaje TerraCycle, lanzó un programa para recolectar juguetes y juegos de la marca, en aras de construir una experiencia de fabricación más sostenible. El proyecto, que ha empezado en una fase piloto, fue estrenado por el Día de la Tierra (22 de abril) y desde el 16 de abril ha sido habilitado el sitio web Hasbro Toy Recycling, para que las personas interesadas en formar parte del mismo puedan hacerlo de manera práctica y segura. Por ahora, la iniciativa se encuentra operativa únicamente en Estados Unidos y bsca que las personas aprendan a deshacerse de sus juguetes de manera responsable. Bajo la premisa "Guarda tus recuerdos, recicla tus juguetes y juegos", Hasbro y TerraCycle buscan dar una nueva vida a los juguetes viejos y crear con ellos nuevos espacios de juego, hacer macetas, bancos para parques, entre otros. Para unirse al programa piloto de reciclaje sólo debes encontrarte en Estados Unidos y crear una cuenta en el sitio web de Hasbro Toy Recycling, escoger cuáles juguetes y juegos Hasbro deseas reciclarlos, empaquetarlos, imprimir una etiqueta de envío (suministrada por TerraCycle en el sitio) y enviar tu caja empaquetada a TerraCycle, quiénes se encargarán de clasificarlos y reciclarlos. Con este proyecto, la compañía pretende minimizar el impacto ambiental producido por los productos y empaques de la marca. Si lo deseas, puedes tomar fotos de tu aporte y compartirlo en tus redes sociales con la etiqueta #HASBRORECYCLING y mencionando la cuenta @Hasbro.