Transformation. L’économie circulaire s’illustre concrètement chez Plas Eco, près de Caen. Spécialisée dans le mobilier extérieur recyclé, elle transforme désormais les stylos Bic en jardinets, bancs d’école ou tours d’arbres.

A coordenadora explicou que a universidade já possui parceria com a empresa TerraCycle, de São Paulo, que recicla esse tipo de material, e a cada 5 kg, paga uma quantia para os as cooperativas de catadores.

Apart from newspaper, plastics and glass, there are many things in your home which can be recycled. Any home generates a lot of garbage, and most of this garbage contains things which can be put to use again, including used diapers. A company in Canada is extracting the plastic and paper from used diapers and recycling that to make plastic components, recycled paper, tubing and roof tiles. This just goes to show that almost everything can be recycled these days.

N.J. RECYCLING IPO — Bloomberg’s Stacie Sherman and Elise Young: “In Tom Szaky’s vision of the new economy, nothing is garbage. Not cigarette butts. Not dirty diapers. Not even used tampons. Szaky, the founder of TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based garbage startup, has built a $24 million business around the belief that everything is recyclable.

A TerraCycle, por exemplo, é um sistema de coleta de resíduos que estimula a formação de “brigadas de coleta”, ou seja, recolhem o lixo difícil de reciclar. A partir destes materiais a empresa os transforma em bolsas, guarda-chuvas, jogos americanos, porta-lápis, etc.

中华环保联合会公益基金部主持了24日下午的zero waste环节，和来自盈创回收、泰瑞环保、GoZeroWaste、Bulk House等专注固废回收再利用的组织与倡导者以对话交流的方式对固体废弃物的回收模式、塑料垃圾的现状、零废弃生活方式等议题进行了深入的交流讨论，并与现场来宾进行了互动，传递了零废弃领域最新的可持续发展理念与个体消费者可参与的模式。公益基金部项目主任段延佩主持了该对话环节。

Meanwhile, Bausch + Lomb, a subsidiary of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc., has shared that its ONE by ONE Recycling Program for contact lenses has recycled a combined total of more than one million used contact lenses, blister packs and top foils in less than one year since its launch. In collaboration with TerraCycle, the program has diverted more than 7,000 pounds of waste from landfills to-date.

In Tom Szaky’s vision of the new economy, nothing is garbage. Not cigarette butts. Not dirty diapers. Not even used tampons.

Despite a growing emphasis on recycling, most of what we throw away still winds up in landfills or polluting the ocean. NBC News’ Anne Thompson reports how Terracycle is trying to change that.