A new playground will soon come to Fourteenth Avenue School in Newark, and it will be made entirely of recycled products, some of which were sourced from the students’ own recycling efforts.
In an announcement event earlier this week, Neil Greenstein, owner and operator of ShopRite of Newark, joined representatives from Colgate and Trenton-based recycling and waste management company Terracycle, Fourteenth Avenue School teachers and the school’s principal, Alyson Barillari, to celebrate both the program and the new playground it will yield.
Neil Greenstein, owner and operator of the ShopRite of Newark, talks about the playground ShopRite and Colgate will donate to the Fourteenth Avenue School in Newark. Image courtesy BML Public Relations
Neil Greenstein, owner and operator of the ShopRite of Newark, talks about the playground ShopRite and Colgate will donate to the Fourteenth Avenue School in Newark. Image courtesy BML Public Relations
Shoprite and Colgate are joining forces to donate the playground. Via Colgate’s Oral Care Recycling Program, a collaboration between Colgate and Terracycle, students are being encouraged to learn sustainable habits by recycling old toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes and floss containers. The playground, expected to be unveiled in April, will not only be a facilities upgrade for the students to enjoy, but will also demonstrate how recycling can manifest in large-scale products they can actually use.
Terracycle, a private company founded in 2001, works with brands to create recycling and education programs and curricula around the country, and has executed the playground program with Colgate for other schools through its Recycled Playground Challenge.
Heute möchte ich euch auf die tolle Fa Initivative in Kooperation mit DM aufmerksam machen. Alle DM Kunden werden gebeten leere Plastikflaschen aus dem Dusch- und Köperpflegesegment in den österreichischen DM Filialen abzugeben.
Die gesammelten Flaschen werden von DM an die Firma TerraCycle übergeben. Dieses Recyclingunternehmen habe ich bereits vor einiger Zeit kennenlernen dürfen und ich bin wirklich begeistert, was man aus “Müll” machen kann. Aus verschiedenen Verpackungen kann man tolle Produkte kreieren und in diesem Fall wird das Plastik zu Granulat für Rutschen gemacht.
Eine neue Bestimmung erhalten leere Plastikflaschen: dm drogerie markt und Fa statteten im Rahmen ihrer gemeinsamen Nachhaltigkeits-Kampagne alle dm-Filialen mit Sammelboxen für leere Flaschen aus dem Körperpflegesortiment aus.
Der dm-drogerie Markt ließ zusammen mit den Unternehmen TerraCycle und Unilever Kinderfahrräder aus Aluminiumdosen herstellen, welche an 200 verschiedene soziale Vereine und Institutionen gespendet werden. Zehn wurden in Karlsruhe offiziell übergeben.
Thanks to its successful efforts to implement socially and environmentally responsible practices around race day in 2016, Ironman Boulder has earned the highest level certification, Evergreen, from the Council for Responsible Sport. Events are evaluated across five categories: planning and communications; procurement; resource management; access and equity; and community legacy.
Since 2008, the Council for Responsible Sport has certified more than 100 sporting events with four levels: Certified, Silver, Gold and Evergreen. Ironman Boulder is only the ninth event to reach the highest status, and the only triathlon.
“Boulder was a race market that already demanded unique environmental efforts and presented an opportunity to go further,” Keats McGonigal, senior regional director for Ironman, told
Triathlete. “We are planning to take lessons learned from this race’s achievements to see what might be scalable at other events across the series.”
Ironman worked with Waste Management to capture current environmental initiatives and then identified opportunities for improvement and innovation, starting with Boulder. This has led to green initiatives to be rolled our across the North American race series, such as utilizing compostable cups at all aid stations and donating leftover nutrition to local food pantries and shelters.
Some highlights from the 2016 Ironman Boulder sustainability initiatives:
Environmental:
- Collected bike inner tubes and tires for reuse through TerraCycle.
- Collected 64 carbon dioxide canisters from event activities to ensure they were reused instead of ending up in the landfill.
- Provided a free shuttle service to and from major venues—Ironman shuttled close to 10,000 people between locations, reducing about 3,000 vehicle trips in each direction.
- Reduced the material sent to landfill by asking all vendors to sign a participation agreement so they only use materials for the event that were locally recyclable, compostable or reusable.
- Measured the total event water use at 14,925 gallons and purchased Water Restoration Certificates from Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) to restore 50,000 gallons to the Colorado River Basin.
- Offset 100 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions from event operations by purchasing 10 MTCO2e through the Colorado Carbon Fund.
IRONMAN and the Council for Responsible Sport have announced that, in collaboration with Waste Management (NYSE:WM), IRONMAN has earned the highest possible level of certification — Evergreen — ‘recognizing the successful implementation of socially and environmentally responsible practices at the 2016 IRONMAN Boulder triathlon’.
The event earned credits across all five categories of standards including planning and communications, procurement, resource management, access and equity as well as community legacy.
“The Council applauds IRONMAN on the achievement of Evergreen certification for 2016 IRONMAN Boulder,” said Shelley Villalobos, Managing Director of the Council for Responsible Sport. “Staging events in many places poses a challenge for genuine local cooperation, but IRONMAN has shown itself to be a willing partner in working to leave a positive impact on the Boulder community and steward borrowed venues as if they were home.”
Since 2008, the Council for Responsible Sport has certified over 100 sporting events within four levels – Certified, Silver, Gold, and Evergreen. IRONMAN Boulder is in elite company being amongst only nine events to receive the highest (Evergreen) status, and is also the only triathlon to achieve this level of certification.
“Achieving this certification is the result of a strong and strategic partnership with the team at Waste Management,” said Cameron O’Connell, Senior Director of Sales for IRONMAN. “With their guidance, we have been able to implement sustainable standards across our event series. Our success with IRONMAN Boulder can now serve as a best-practices example for our company and for race organizers everywhere.”
IRONMAN worked with Waste Management, first, by capturing current environmental initiatives and then by identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation with a focus on IRONMAN Boulder. This led to green initiatives that have now been rolled out across the North American race series, such as utilizing compostable cups at all aid stations and donating leftover nutrition to local food pantries and shelters.
“Waste Management is proud to support IRONMAN on a wide variety of sustainable event programs on its journey to achieve the highest level of certification from the Council for Responsible Sport for the Boulder race,” said Lee Spivak, Senior Associate with Waste Management’s Sustainability Services group.
“We are excited to continue this relationship and help IRONMAN grow its sustainability initiatives across all five categories of standards. It was also great for our team to utilize our sustainable event management expertise to help another major event achieve Council certification.”
Highlights from the IRONMAN Boulder triathlon sustainability initiatives included:
Environmental
- Collected bike inner tubes and tyres for reuse through TerraCycle.
- Reduced waste generation by reusing fencing, flags, finish line materials, tents, signs, inflatable arches and the IRONMAN Village truss from previous IRONMAN events.
- Collected 64 carbon dioxide canisters from event activities to ensure they were reused instead of ending up in landfill.
- Provided a free shuttle service to and from major venues; IRONMAN shuttled close to 10,000 people between locations, reducing about 3,000 vehicle trips in each direction.
- Reduced the material sent to landfill by asking all vendors to sign a participation agreement so they only use materials for the event that were locally recyclable, compostable or reusable.
- Measured the total event water use at 14,925 gallons and purchased Water Restoration Certificates from Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) to restore 50,000 gallons to the Colorado River Basin.
- Offset 100% of the greenhouse gas emissions from event operations by purchasing 10 MTCO2e through the Colorado Carbon Fund.
Mess-free countertop juicer brand Juicero has seen a five-fold increase in consumer adoption after dropping its price tag from $699 to $399, and is now working on a second iteration that will have a “more attractive” price point, says CEO Jeff Dunn after teaming up with Whole Foods to test Juicero in 11 stores.
Consumers can mail the juice packs back to Juicero who sends them to TerraCycle for recycling.