Environmental services company Suez Environnement has partnered with TerraCycle to expand the recovery of difficult-to-recycle plastics in six European countries.
The France-based waste, recycling and water treatment giant bought 30 percent of the shares of New Jersey-based TerraCycle in Belgium, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and the U.K. Suez is publicly traded.
Founded in 2001, TerraCycle specializes in tackling a diverse array of difficult-to-recycle materials, including plastics that aren't collected in most municipal programs. Examples include plastic filters in cigarettes, pouches, plastic action figures, air freshener cases, Brita water filter products, tape dispensers, candy wrappers, coffee capsules and more.
In some cases, product manufacturers subsidize the recycling so it's free to consumers. In others, consumers purchase shipping boxes to help fund the recycling.
Under the partnership, TerraCycle will continue to run its existing facilities in the same manner but will leverage Suez's vast network of transportation, facilities and recycling capabilities, said Lauren Taylor, global director of communications for TerraCycle.
She added that not all details haven't been worked out yet.
"We both hope to approach potential clients and customers to offer an enhanced network of services," she said.
TerraCycle works with plastics reclaimers to recycle post-consumer items into pellets for sale to manufacturers. The company is currently active in 20 countries.
With operations on five continents, international utilities company Suez collects waste and recycling from about 34 million people and recovers about 16 million metric tons each year.
"Through this partnership, Suez is expanding its range of services in Europe with innovative voluntary collection methods and additional recycling channels for all its customers, particularly for products that need complex packaging and therefore require very specific collection and sorting solutions," according to a press release.
No dollar amount was connected to the purchase of shares from TerraCycle, a private company. The Telegraph reported a potential sale last year valued a 30 percent stake at around $30 million.
Recycling is the most accessible and easily understood aspect of environmentalism and sustainability. An eco-conscious practice often learned in childhood, the habit (or lack thereof) is passed down to us by our role models, parents and guardians, an action we are exposed to alongside taking out the trash. The concept of recycling may be an implicitly understood process explicitly enforced by some mandated guidelines, but do consumers still care about recycling?
If you want to figure out what people care about, see what they spend their money on. It’s no coincidence that some of world’s most admired companies are
sustainability stars; a majority of consumers see recyclability as the most important factor in choosing eco-friendly products. In a survey conducted for
Packaging Digest’s 2015 Sustainable Packaging Study, 57% of participants cite a product’s recyclability to be top of mind when it comes to the environment and sustainability, a product featuring recycled content and reduced packaging coming up for second and third place.
Now representing a quarter of the entire U.S. population with an influential $200 billion in annual buying power, Millennials in particular increasingly report a
willingness to pay a premium for products and services that come from companies demonstrating a commitment to sustainability.
Where consumers feel responsible for purchasing products that are
good for the environment and society, they also believe that businesses should be very or extremely responsible for implementing programs and working to improve the environment. Americans now expect food and beverage brands to be engaged in increasing the rate at which their packaging is recycled, 68% of whom think that
manufacturers and or retailers should bear the cost of recycling programs if they are not readily available to consumers.
Consumers also report that they would recycle more if given better indication of product recyclability and if given the chance to earn cash or rewards. At TerraCycle, we work with a number of companies and brands on a mission to solve for their previously unrecyclable product and packaging waste through
sponsored recycling programs.
By putting forth the resources to collect and process the potentially valuable component materials that fall outside the scope of the current municipal recycling infrastructure, they divert waste from landfills, as well as incentivize consumers.
For example, D’Addario, one of the largest instrument string manufacturers in the world, sponsors
Playback, TerraCycle’s Instrument String Recycling Program with TerraCycle. Calling upon consumers to “Offset Your Set,” the program is free to any individual, school or musical organization and solves for old and broken instrument strings, regardless of brand. Consumers are rewarded for each minimum shipment of strings with either a cash donation to the D’Addario Foundation or Playback loyalty points. Incentivizing recycling in this way is empowering and creates positive reinforcement for sustainable behavior.
To the average consumer, some of today’s most pressing environmental issues can seem a bit abstract. Topics like natural resource depletion, global warming and water contamination can be intimidating, and their solutions even more so. The individual impact of eco-conscious behaviors like choosing to bike or carpool to work and voting against fracking may not be immediately quantifiable, and therefore immaterial.
But person’s impact recycling can be measured in increments of every unit of waste individuals don’t place in the trash bin. Recycling is a behavior, and the conscious decision to engage in actions such as separating household waste into different bins, holding on to plastic and glass beverage bottles when in public, or participating in a TerraCycle recycling program has an immediate consequence that is experienced first-hand. Recycling affords the individual a direct proximity to the cause and effect of sustainable activity, empowering them to see the action as valuable, important and worthwhile.
Whether you recycle at the curb with the city of Dalton curbside recycling program, or at one of the convenience centers in Whitfield County, you're probably accustomed to recycling paper, cardboard boxes, aluminum beverage cans, glass bottles and plastic bottles. These are some of the most common things accepted for recycling in residential recycling programs across the country.
But there are other very peculiar things that can be recycled, too -- just not at the curb or at a local drop-off site. If you want to take the extra step to recycle something out of the ordinary, consider the following items that can be mailed in to manufacturers who are either reusing or fully recycling materials that otherwise would end up in the trash heading to the landfill.
• Oral care products: The paperboard box that holds your favorite tube of toothpaste can be recycled with mixed paper. But did you know you could recycle your old toothbrush, floss container and empty toothpaste tube, too? Colgate and TerraCycle have teamed up to create the Oral Care Brigade at www.terracycle.com. A brigade is a mail-in program for recyclable materials being processed by TerraCycle, a company specializing in hard-to-recycle items. To participate, collect your oral care products in a small box lined with a plastic bag. When full, tie up the bag, make sure there are no leaks and seal the box. Print your shipping label from the TerraCycle website and send your old toothbrush packing.
Frank H. Hammond Elementary School of Munster has been named an honorable mention in this year’s “Recycled Playground Challenge,” courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive (“Colgate”), Meijer and TerraCycle.
Frank H. Hammond Elementary School earned a total of 2,183 Playground Credits by recycling waste and via online voting to place in the contest. The honorable mention prize winner will receive a $150 Meijer gift card, 500 Colgate kids toothbrushes, 500 Colgate kids toothpaste tubes and a Colgate Bright Smiles Bright Futures van visit.
The Recycled Playground Challenge launched in April in schools throughout Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin that participate in the Colgate Oral Care Recycling Program, a free, national program operated by Colgate and TerraCycle. During the contest window, participating schools earned one Playground Credit for each unit of oral care waste – such as toothbrushes, floss containers and toothpaste tubes – sent to TerraCycle for recycling. Schools earned additional Playground Credits by encouraging their community, parents and teachers to vote online.
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Here's an updated list of items the Dunkeld Kinder is collecting for the Terracycle recycling program.
The collection box is at Kelly & Henson.
All items must be used/empty.
toothbrushes toothpaste tubes oral care packaging floss containers prepaid mailing satchels padded mailing satchels cosmetics: lipsticks and lip-gloss, mascara, bronzer, eyeshadow, foundation, eyeliner, lip liner, concealer packaging hair care: shampoo and conditioner bottles and lids, hair gel tubes and caps, hair spray and hair treatment packaging skin care: used lip balm, face moisturiser, face and body wash soap dispensers and tubes, body and hand lotion dispensers and tubes, shaving foam packaging Terracycle - diverting waste from landfill.
More information can be found at www.terracycle.com.au.
Suez is to acquire 30% of TerraCycle’s recycling business in Northern and Western Europe in order to expand its range of collection programs.
The partnership brings together TerraCycle’s collections of ‘difficult’ material streams – such as flexible packaging, coffee capsules and cigarette butts – with Suez’s own experience in more traditional waste recovery.
Active in 20 countries, the acquisition will see Suez develop TerraCycle’s recycling programs in the UK, France, Belgium, the Nertherlands, Finland and Sweden.
TerraCycle partners with mass market companies, brands and councils to implement these programmes, with an estimated 60 million collectors working through the initiatives.
These programmes are either set by ‘sponsored’ volunteers, which are awarded points that are then converted into donations for the organisation of their choice, or paid for by companies.
Commenting on the partnership and acquisition, David Palmer-Jones, chief executive of Suez, said the UK remains a ‘key market’ for both companies.
He said: “Suez’s investment in TerraCycle allows us to harness the combined skills of both companies to deliver innovative, creative and scalable solutions which tackle problematic and emerging waste streams in the UK and across Europe. Suez’s investment in TerraCycle will benefit UK customers both today and in a post Brexit future.
“Using the knowledge of both companies, we can ensure that even the most complex and challenging waste streams are put to good use in a sustainable, long-term and economically viable way – whether its coffee pods, cigarette butts, laminated biscuit wrappers or the next, as yet unknown, generation of tricky-to-recycle products.”
SUEZ is partnering with TerraCycle and acquiring 30 percent of its activities in Europe to develop innovative collection and recycling programs in Belgium, Finland, France, the Netherlands, the UK and Sweden. This partnership brings together TerraCycle's collection programs, which focus on community engagement, and SUEZ's expertise in waste recycling and recovery. It will offer individuals, businesses and municipalities new solutions for recycling waste that was previously not recyclable in order to transform it into new secondary resources.
TerraCycle is an internationally recognized company that develops selective collection systems for the recycling of more than 100 specific hard-to-recycle waste streams (disposable items, flexible packaging, office supplies, beauty products, oral care, used coffee capsules and cigarette butts) currently not handled by traditional recycling channels. Active in 20 countries, TerraCycle partners with mass market companies, brands and municipalities to implement recycling programs tailored to these post-consumer products and their packaging.
Nearly 60 million collectors are already working with TerraCycle, either through:
- collection programs set by voluntary citizens, "sponsored" by companies or municipalities (collectors register on TerraCycle's website and are awarded points that are converted into donations for the organizations of their choice),
- or recycling services paid by companies such as "Zero Waste Boxes."
Through this partnership, SUEZ is expanding its range of services in Europe with innovative voluntary collection methods and additional recycling channels for all its customers, particularly for products that need complex packaging and therefore require very specific collection and sorting solutions. All the waste collected will be reused or recycled into new products thanks to SUEZ's recycling expertise.
Environmental services company Suez Environnement has partnered with TerraCycle to expand the recovery of difficult-to-recycle materials in six European countries.
The France-based waste, recycling and water treatment giant bought 30 percent of the shares of New Jersey-based TerraCycle in Belgium, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and the U.K. Suez is publicly traded.
Under the partnership, TerraCycle will continue to run its existing facilities in the same manner but will leverage Suez's vast network of transportation, facilities and recycling capabilities, said Lauren Taylor, global director of communications for TerraCycle.
She added that not all details haven't been worked out yet.
"We both hope to approach potential clients and customers to offer an enhanced network of services," she said.
Founded in 2001, TerraCycle specializes in tackling a diverse array of difficult-to-recycle materials, including pouches, cigarette butts, protective gear, pouches, auto parts, writing instruments and more. In some cases, product manufacturers subsidize the recycling so it's free to consumers. In others, consumers purchase shipping boxes to help fund the recycling. TerraCycle licenses all product manufacturing to outside companies. The company is currently active in 20 countries.
With operations on five continents, international utilities company Suez collects waste and recycling from about 34 million people and recovers about 16 million metric tons each year.
"Through this partnership, Suez is expanding its range of services in Europe with innovative voluntary collection methods and additional recycling channels for all its customers, particularly for products that need complex packaging and therefore require very specific collection and sorting solutions," according to a press release.
No dollar amount was connected to the purchase of shares from TerraCycle, a private company. The Telegraph reported a potential sale last year valued a 30 percent stake at around $30 million.
