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Recycling Contest Returns

TerraCycle announces the third annual Recycled Playground Challenge, a contest with partners Colgate-Palmolive (“Colgate”) and Meijer, that encourages healthy habits among school children and their communities, and awards a recycled playground to a winning school. Running April 23-June 30, schools located throughout Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Wisconsin can join TerraCycle’s Oral Care Recycling Program, a free, national program run by Colgate and TerraCycle, and compete to win a new playground made completely of recycled material. Schools participating in the contest earn one ‘Playground Credit’ for each unit (“unit” defined as 0.02 lbs of used, post-consumer oral care products and packaging) of oral care waste, such as empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers, sent to TerraCycle within the timeframe. Additional Playground Credits are earned through online voting at www.meijer.com/colgate. Legacy Christian School of Grand Rapids was the winner of the 2016Recycled Playground Challenge after earning a total of 102,098 Playground Credits. The school that earns the most Playground Credits by June 30 will be announced as the winner of the grand prize playground in July 2017 before the playground installation in fall 2017. The first and second runner-up schools, as well as six honorable mention participants, will be awarded various prizes and Meijer gift cards. In addition to donating gift certificates for the runner-up schools, Meijer is also encouraging community participation in the contest with displays throughout its stores. “TerraCycle is thrilled that Colgate and Meijer have decided to bring back the Recycled Playground Challenge for 2017,” said TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky. “It’s a chance for young students to gain valuable knowledge about sustainability and get the opportunity to make a difference within their school and community.” For instructions on how to participate, please visit www.meijer.com/colgate or your local Meijer retailer.

First Butt Pick-up Completed at ZuZu

As you may know, in February 2017, we installed a Terracycle cigarette butt recycling receptacle outside the shop. This was prompted by the large volume of butts discarded on the sidewalk. They are not only unsightly but they pose a tremendous environmental threat to our water system as they are washed away into grates, streams and lakes. Terracycle offers several recycling programs and this is no exception. Once the container is filled, we empty it, print a shipping label and UPS picks up the package at no cost to us. It’s easy! The waste is then recycled into plastic products including pallets. Fabulous!

Boston Residents Can Recycle Car Seats

Between April 17 and 30, Boston area residents can recycle used car seats! In celebration of Earth Month, 1,700 Target stores nationwide and across Massachusetts are hosting a car seat collection program to help residents reduce household clutter without sending waste to landfills. All car seats collected through this program will be recycled through TerraCycle so that each component will see a second life. Residents should bring their car seats to their participating Target store and look for Target’s car seat collection box in the front of the store or in the baby/kids floor pad section. When a customer turns in a used car seat, he or she will receive a coupon for 20% off the purchase of a new one. After the recycling program ends, TerraCycle will separate the different components of the car seats (cloth elements, plastics, metals, etc.) and process them for use in other products.

Baylor participates in ‘Rinse, Recycle, Repeat’

Baylor sits in 12th place out of 50 schools in the Rinse, Recycle, Repeat campaign and competition to collect and recycle empty beauty containers. “About half of Americans don’t regularly recycle their shampoo and conditioner bottles or makeup containers,” Richardson freshman Libby Kraemer, team captain for the Baylor team, said. “So Garnier and DoSomething want to keep all of that out of landfills.” Rinse, Recycle, Repeat is put on by Garnier, DoSomething.org and TerraCycle as a national college competition to educate and motivate young people to recycle beauty empties through the Garnier Beauty Recycling Program, according to a press release. The goal is to recycle 10 million beauty empties by the end of 2017. Kraemer said that any beauty bottle qualifies as an empty, and Baylor has sent in 27 empties for the campaign. “I heard Libby talking on the phone, and I knew about it because DoSomething is a site I used for scholarships, and I said I would help her if she needed it,” Surprise, Ariz., freshman Aniefiok Anako said. “What I’m doing is reaching out to other [community leaders] in different dorms and reaching out to companies to put up signs for customers to drop things off.” The competition started on April 1 and will run until the end of April. Kraemer said all empties must be postmarked to Garnier by April 30 to be counted in the competition. Donations can be made at the blue baskets with yellow signs located in Teal Residential College at the front desk. Kraemer decided to start small and just leave a basket in her dorm and is currently working with Anako to expand locations for drop-offs and gradually cover more of campus. “First of all, it’s always important to recycle,” Anako said. “I think there are like 10 million bottles of empty bottles that end up in a landfill. They don’t belong there- they can be recycled and used for other things, so I think this campaign is really good.” Once all the empties are collected, they will be recycled into park benches and trash cans for city parks. The winning school will win a green garden in their local community including some of the recycled trash cans and benches that came from this project. According to the press release, this will give empties a new life where Waco residents can enjoy a comfortable space rather than polluting landfills with the empties. “It would be really cool for Waco to have one of those,” Kraemer said. “I definitely tell people, ‘Look, here’s an incentive for you to donate besides knowing you did something good.’ It would be really cool to have a community garden since Waco is already so big on community already.” Since 2011, the Garnier Beauty Recycling Program along with TerraCycle has recycled over eight million empties and turned them into various products for community gardens, according to the press release. Garnier has donated five Green Gardens to cities across the country and plans to donate three more this year, the press release reported. More information can be found on the DoSomething website or the GarnierUSA website. Students looking to help Kraemer can also reach her at her Baylor-issued email address to support the campaign or donate empties. “I’m an engineering major, so I’m not necessarily leaning towards environmental aspirations,” Kraemer said. “But no matter what my job is in the engineering field, we have to deal with the earth around us. So it’s been very helpful to me to see how crazy it is that most people don’t recycle this stuff, and we should see if we can.”

Student teams with Garnier to reduce beauty care waste

  Garnier is on a mission to change the significant amount of landfill waste due to beauty and personal care empties with the help of Illinois State University. The main goal of the whole project is to eliminate the amount of waste in landfills that is rapidly growing every year. By correctly recycling empty beauty and personal care containers, Garnier is hoping to see a dramatic decrease in landfill overflow. Recycling these empty containers is often overlooked as most people do not think that they are recyclable. But once everyone starts doing their part, they will see a change. Garnier is partnering with Do Something and TerraCycle for Rinse, Recycle, Repeat, a national campaign and college competition to educate and motivate the next generation of consumers to responsibility recycle their beauty empties through the Garnier Beauty Recycling program. The college competition will run through the end of April and the college captain and team that collects the most empty containers within the month will win a green garden space in their local community. The green garden will consist of some upcycled items like benches and garden beds, giving them a new life where the Normal community can enjoy a comfortable space rather than have the landfills overflowing with empty beauty and personal care containers. Illinois State University student Marlena Roberto is leading the local charge to collect empty containers of beauty and personal care products and send them to TerraCycle so they can be recycled responsibly. Lauren Eckstrom, associate at Golin in New York, explains the mission of Rinse, Recycle, Repeat, project. “The goal is to make a positive impact on the planet and reach a total of 10 million bathroom #empties out of landfills by the end of 2017,” Eckstrom said. Garnier is continually working to successfully recycle empty containers. “Recycling beauty (or bathroom) products can be very different from recycling standard bottles, newspapers and cans. This is because too many beauty products use multiple materials in on package (i.e. bottle, cap, metal spring.)," Garnier stated. "Each component can be recycled individually, but the parts need to be separated before going into the bin — this will help Garnier reach its 10 million-piece goal.” Since 2011, the Garnier Beauty Recycling Program, in partnership with TerraCycle, has diverted more than 8 million empties out of landfills. Garnier has also donated five green gardens to cities throughout the country, with a total of three more planned in 2017. Since Garnier started the program, the company has created some of the greenest and most effective formulas made at zero waste facilities. “Both Garnier Fructis and Whole Blends products are produced in a facility committed to sustainability," Garnier stated. "The facility has reduced waste and water consumption per unit by approximately 58 percent for Fructis and 47 percent for Whole Blends since 2005."

Virginie Helias, P&G: ‘Innovatie voor een lagere milieu-impact’

Procter & Gamble, leverancier van huishoudelijke en verzorgingsproducten, hanteert duurzaamheid als een belangrijk criterium bij de ontwikkeling van innovaties. “Met innovatie kun je de milieu-impact van consumenten verkleinen, zonder dat ze daarvoor iets extra’s hoeven te doen”, aldus Virginie Helias, global VP sustainability van Procter & Gamble. 06-04-2017 10:27 | DOOR: CHRIS THIJSSEN Producten ontwikkelen die het leven van consumenten gemakkelijker maken, terwijl grondstoffen worden behouden. Dat is een van de langetermijndoelen van het Amerikaanse bedrijf Procter & Gamble (P&G). Om dat te bereiken werkt de multinational met merken als Ariel, Braun, Gilette en Head & Shoulders toe naar een duurzamere bedrijfsvoering, waarbij afval tot het verleden behoort. DuurzaamBedrijfsleven ging in gesprek met Virginie Helias, global VP sustainability bij P&G, over duurzaamheid, innovatie en impact. Wat betekent duurzaamheid voor P&G? “Als we het over duurzaamheid hebben, hebben we het meestal over ecologische duurzaamheid, een van de vijf pijlers van onze Citizenship Agenda. Dat betekent kort gezegd: zakendoen binnen de grenzen van de planeet. Om dat te kunnen doen, focussen we ons op de gebieden die voor ons als bedrijf het belangrijkst zijn: klimaat, water en afval.” “Onze missie is om producten te ontwikkelen met minimaal gebruik van grondstoffen, gemaakt van recyclebare en hernieuwbare materialen. Deze producten worden geproduceerd in fabrieken die draaien op 100 procent schone energie en waarbij ‘zero waste to landfill’ de standaard is. Met alles wat we doen, werken we naar deze visie toe.”
“Onze milieu-impact ontstaat voornamelijk bij het gebruik van onze producten, thuis bij de consument"
Hoe komt dat terug in de dagelijkse bedrijfsvoering? “Duurzaamheid moet diep geworteld zijn in de bedrijfsvoering. Daarvoor is het nodig dat wanneer we innoveren, duurzaamheid een belangrijk criterium is. In tegenstelling tot voorheen, waarbij we aan het einde van het proces bekeken of een product recyclebaar is, moet duurzaamheid nu een criterium zijn dat we helemaal vooraan in het proces meenemen. Om dat te bereiken, moet je met elke afdeling samenwerken en uitleggen waarom dit belangrijk is. Als je dat laat zien, kun je betere innovaties creëren, dat is echt de sleutel.” Hoe dragen die innovaties bij aan verduurzaming van de producten van P&G? “Onze milieu-impact ontstaat voornamelijk bij het gebruik van onze producten, thuis bij de consument. Zo wordt binnen ons was-segment 80 procent van onze milieuvoetafdruk bepaald door de temperatuur waarop consumenten hun wasmachine laten draaien. Daarom moeten we producten ontwikkelen die werken met koud water en korte programma’s en hen helpen energie en water te besparen.” “Hierbij richten we ons op de groep consumenten die wij als ‘duurzame mainstream’ beschouwen, circa tweederde van de populatie. Deze groep wil zijn steentje bijdragen aan het milieu, zonder daarvoor kwaliteit in te leveren of er meer voor te betalen. Je moet deze mensen dus eigenlijk duurzaamheid geven zonder dat het hen moeite of geld kost. Het enige waarmee je dat kunt bereiken, is innovatie.” “Een voorbeeld van een product dat de milieu-impact bij de consument thuis vermindert, is Swiffer. Het gebruik van dit merk bespaart jaarlijks 250.000 liter water vergeleken met een emmer en een mop. Een ander voorbeeld is de lancering van een duurzamere variant van Tide (Ariel in Nederland, red.). Dit nieuwe wasmiddel heeft dezelfde kwaliteit die consumenten van het merk gewend zijn, maar is 65 procent plantbased. Achter dit product zitten jaren van ontwikkeling en innovatie.” Hoe bereikt P&G die ‘duurzame mainstream’-consument? “Het gaat om de link tussen een product en de belangrijkste milieu-impact van dat product. Bij babyverzorging veroorzaakt materiaalgebruik de grootste impact, bij wasmiddel is dat het wassen op hoge temperaturen door de consument. Om met de consument te communiceren over het verminderen van die impact, is een link tussen de impact en de merkwaarde nodig.” “Neem Ambi Pur, waarvoor we in het verleden een communicatiestrategie moesten ontwikkelen. De grootste impact van dit merk komt voort uit verpakkingen; het product bestaat uit een mix van materialen, een nachtmerrie voor recyclers. Het belangrijkste merkvoordeel is ‘giving everyone a breath of fresh air’. Het was een uitdaging om een brug te vinden tussen die twee. Maar uiteindelijk werd het motto: ‘leaving nothing behind but fresh air’. Daarmee adresseren we het punt van verpakkingen, want je wilt geen afval of verpakkingen achterlaten. En het is een duidelijke link naar de merkmissie. Dit gaf ons vervolgens groen licht om dingen te doen die we in het verleden niet kónden doen, omdat ze niet bij de merkwaarde pasten. Dat leidde onder meer tot de lancering van een recycleprogramma met TerraCyle in Nederland.”
"Eind 2018 moet 90 procent van onze shampooflessen zijn gemaakt met een bijdrage tot 25 procent post-consumer gerecycled plastic"
Begin dit jaar, tijdens het World Economic Forum in Davos, kondigde P&G in samenwerking met Suez en TerraCycle de productie van een Head & Shoulders-fles aan, waarin gerecycled plastic is verwerkt. Hoe komt de link tussen impact en communicatie daarin terug? “Bij Head & Shoulders (H&S) was de discussie over de link tussen de merkwaarde en duurzaamheid eigenlijk heel kort. De inspiratie was een rapport van de Ellen McArthur Foundation, waarin wordt voorspeld dat, wanneer er niets gebeurt, er in 2050 meer plastic dan vis in de oceanen zal zijn. We zagen dit plastic als ‘roos’ in de oceaan. En Head & Shoulders wilde, als nummer 1-shampoomerk in de wereld, die hoeveelheid roos, ofwel plastic, verminderen.” “Omdat het moeilijk is om plastic uit de oceaan te halen - het is daar als ‘soep’ aanwezig - besloten we plastic van het strand te gebruiken voor de productie van de shampoofles. Dat leidde tot een nieuwe shampoofles, waarin tot 25 procent gerecycled strandplastic is verwerkt. De H&S-fles heeft met zijn blauwe en witte kleur een iconische uitstraling. Maar voor deze campagne besloten we de fles van gerecycled plastic grijs te maken. Een enorm statement, want dit doen we niet snel. Maar we willen dat consumenten begrijpen dat recycling vandaag de dag suboptimaal is en dat zij dit kunnen verbeteren door in hun badkamer te recyclen.”   In Davos kondigden jullie aan ook shampooflessen van andere merken te verduurzamen. “Dat klopt, en dat is misschien nog een veel interessantere doelstelling. Want de fles met strandplastic, die in Frankrijk als limited edition zal worden aangeboden, blijft gelimiteerd in bereik vergeleken met alle shampooflessen die we in Europa verkopen. Eind 2018 moet 90 procent van onze shampooflessen dan ook zijn gemaakt met een bijdrage tot 25 procent post-consumer gerecycled plastic. Behalve voor Head & Shoulders geldt dat ook voor andere shampoomerken, zoals Pantene. Dit wordt zeer impactvol.” In hoeverre zijn jullie een voorbeeld in de industrie? “Dat we anderen inspireren, bleek wel uit de vraag die TerraCycle na deze aankondiging kreeg. En uit de vraag die wij van retailers krijgen, die zijn erg geïnteresseerd. Dat is mooi, want samenwerking is een belangrijk aspect, vooral als het gaat om recycling. Het nieuwe pakket Circulaire Economie van de Europese Unie schrijft voor dat in 2030 65 procent van al het afval in de EU moet worden gerecycled. Dit kunnen we nooit alleen bereiken. Dus we moeten samenwerken om te garanderen dat we de benodigde infrastructuur ontwikkelen, dat we consumenten voorlichten en onze merken opleiden.” “En we moeten met z’n allen investeren in recyclingtechnologie, want bepaalde materialen, zoals gekleurde PT, veroorzaken problemen voor recyclers. We werken dan ook met verschillende partners, zoals Petcore Europe of de Ellen McArthur Foundation. En alleen al het feit dat we zeggen dat we in 2020 het gebruik van gerecycled plastic willen hebben verdubbeld, is een zeer helder signaal voor de industrie dat wij ermee bezig zijn en dat zij moeten volgen door de toevoer te creëren.”

Students tap into great sustainability ideas

Leumeah High School was among six local schools to receive grants of up to $1000 to develop an environmental project as part of the Schools for Sustainability program, a partnership between Campbelltown City Council and Western Sydney University. Schools for Sustainability was launched at a two-day forum in August 2016, providing students with the opportunity to explore global and local environmental issues through a series of engaging workshops. Through the forum, students were equipped with the knowledge and inspiration to develop a project idea that could be implemented within their school or the local community. Council is currently designing the 2017 Schools for Sustainability program that will again invite high schools to participate in a two-day forum. This year’s forum will see a range of sustainability pioneers inspire the students, including Tim Silverwood from Take 3, Australian Youth Climate Coalition, Terracycle and the team of student engineers that designed and built WSU’s Solar Car ‘Unlimited’. 

Doing more with less

Encouraging recycling  Consumers face a choice when they unwrap or finish a product: recycle or dispose. Australian consumers are generally good at recycling the basics - aluminium cans, glass and plastic bottles - but need prompting when it comes to other forms of packaging. TerraCycle, founded in the US in 2011, helps consumers recycle the difficult-to-recycle. It runs brand sponsored collection programs for different types of waste from chip bags to juice pouches. Brigades, comprising community groups, schools or individuals, collect packaging for a particular stream and TerraCycle uses innovative recycling and upcycling processes to keep waste from going to, well, waste. Since its launch, TerraCycle has grown to 21 countries including the UK, France, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, China, Australia and New Zealand. "The recycling programs are hugely successful," TerraCycle Australia & New Zealand PR and Marketing Manager Gemma Kaczerepa said. "There are currently 60 million people collecting for TerraCycle worldwide. Since 2006, we have diverted more than 3.7 billion units of waste from landfills and incinerators, and raised more than $15 million for charity. Further, there are now over 60 types of non-recyclable waste that can be recycling through our programs." Different programs are run in each country, depending on support of brands. In Australia some of the successful programs include:
  • Beauty products recycling program with L'Oréal - more than 138,000 products (including shampoo and hairspray bottles, eye-shadow palettes and lipstick tubes) have been diverted from landfill since the program's launch in 2014
  • Kids Pouch & Snack recycling program with Whole Kids - more than 20,000 products have been diverted from landfill since the program's launch in 2015
  • Nescafé Dolce Gusto Capsule recycling program - more than 600,000 capsules have been diverted from landfill since the program's launch in 2014
  • Oral Care recycling program with Colgate - more than 203,000 products have been diverted from landfill since the program's launch in 2014.
This program also features the Bright Smiles, Bright Futures oral care recycling contest - a nationwide recycling competition for primary schools primary schools offering a $1,000 prize and, in the latest round, a recycled park bench made of oral-care waste. Mz Kaczerepa says there are program taking place overseas that she'd like to see implemented in Australia, such as recycling programs for stationery, pet food and treat packaging, and contact lenses and blister packs. Internationally, TerraCycle also works with retailers to create in-store recycling promotions and awareness campaigns to communicate the recyclability of the brand's products. "This can include in-store competition whereby shoppers are encouraged to return products to enter the prize draw; in-store collections whereby customers can redeem their used products for a discount off new ones; and shelf-talkers and other marketing collateral to promote the brand and its recycling efforts," Mz Kaczerepa said. "We hope to launch a similar initiatives in Australia in 2017."

沙龙招募:归零,我们身边的循环经济 Event: Zero, We and Circular Economy | 商业生态

  无论是家里的咖啡胶囊,学校的笔具,还是工厂的塑胶手套,泰瑞环保能回收利用几乎所有形式的废品。在全球20个不同国家内,已有超过6000万人参与泰瑞环保的回收项目,制造的再生利用品达到30亿件。   Whether the coffee capsules from households, pens and teaching aids from schools, or the PVG gloves from factories, TerraCycle can recycle almost all kinds of waste. There are more than 60 million people participating in TerraCycle’s recycling projects in 20 different countries, producing 3 billion recycled products.

Raglan Coconut Yoghurt teams up with TerraCycle to recycle its Little Yoghis

To coincide with the launch of its new ‘Little Yoghi’ range of coconut yoghurt pouches, Raglan Coconut Yoghurt has joined up with recycling pioneers TerraCycle to make the pouches nationally recyclable in New Zealand. Through the Little Yoghi Recycling Programme, New Zealanders simply collect pouches at home, work, school, or at their playgroup, and freepost them to TerraCycle in any used box. The pouch materials are then pelletised and can be used to make plastic goods such as park benches, watering cans and waste bins. Raglan Coconut Yoghurt has always endeavoured to use recyclable materials in the packaging for its full-size ‘Yoghi’ products. But when the Raglan-based coconut yoghurt brand launched the lunchbox-friendly Little Yoghis, the team realised they needed to find a sustainable solution for used pouches. “We’re very conscious of health and the environment, and this is reflected through our healthy, fresh products, our community sponsorships, and, of course, our focus on recycling,” says Tesh Randall, co-founder, Raglan Coconut Yoghurt. “As soon as we decided to launch the Little Yoghis, we knew we had to offer our customers an environmentally-friendly disposal option!” Although increasingly popular with food manufacturers and consumers alike, most pouch packaging is not yet recyclable through standard New Zealand council services. Jean Bailliard, General Manager for TerraCycle Australia and New Zealand, says the new nationwide recycling programme benefits not only the environment, but the community as well. “TerraCycle recycles the ‘unrecyclable’ – we look at waste solutions for items that are deemed difficult to recycle, such as yoghurt pouches,” he says. “Our recycling programmes are free to participate in and very user-friendly, and they also allow collectors to raise money for their local school or favourite charity.” Collectors will be awarded with two cents for every pouch they collect, and once they’ve collected $10 across any of TerraCycle’s programmes, they can donate the funds to their favourite charity or school. Visit www.terracycle.co.nz/little-yoghi to sign up and obtain further information on the programme. TerraCycle has already kept more than four billion pieces of food and beverage packaging and other waste from going to the landfill, and with its partners, donated over $15 million to charity and schools through its various programmes. TerraCycle is currently creating solutions for other difficult to recycle, but widely discarded, waste streams such as cigarettes and used chewing gum. For more information please contact: Tesh Randall, Raglan Coconut Yoghurt 021 261 5913 or tesh@raglancoconutyoghurt.co.nz Gemma Kaczerepa, PR & Marketing Manager at TerraCycle NZ +61 2 9357 7426 or gemma.kaczerepa@terracycle.com About Raglan Coconut Yoghurt Raglan Coconut Yoghurt is a Raglan, New Zealand-based brand that has become a familiar favourite in the coconut yoghurt market. Its yoghurts are full of probiotics, free from dairy, gluten, refined sugar, preservatives, nuts, gums and GMOs, and are paleo and beegan. Plus, they’re 100% locally produced in Raglan using honey from local beehives around Mt Karioi. Both Raglan Coconut Yoghurt’s full-size Yoghi products and Little Yoghi pouches come in varieties such as Natural Greek-Style, Mango & Turmeric and Blackcurrant & Heilala Vanilla, as well as a new Banana flavoured Little Yoghi. About TerraCycle TerraCycle, Inc. is an international recycling organisation that engages the community to collect ‘unrecyclable’ and difficult-to-recycle packaging and products, and turns them into innovative eco products. Founded in 2001, TerraCycle is the world’s leader in the collection and reuse of non-recyclable post-consumer waste. TerraCycle works with over 110 of the world’s largest consumer goods brands to collect 75 different waste streams, including coffee capsules, toothbrushes, chewing gum and even cigarette waste. TerraCycle operates in 20 countries and has over 60 million people participating globally in its programmes to collect waste. Internationally TerraCycle has diverted almost 5 billion units of waste from landfill and paid over $15 million to charities and schools.