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Lodge Floral Studio in Waitara collects Nespresso capsules for recycling

Recycling  is important to Roz Liddell but drinking coffee is not. Even so, when the Lodge Floral Studio owner received a letter from Nespresso asking if her boutique business in Waitara would like to become a collection point for people to recycle their coffee pods, she jumped at the chance. Nespresso began contacting garden centres and florists to ask if they'd become collection points. "I literally rang them that afternoon and said I'm in." Nespresso supplies the collection boxes, which each hold 20kg of pods. "These [boxes] are picked up by courier post. We get our pre-packs all sent with courier stickers so it doesn't cost us anything. They go to TerraCycle." About three boxes are filled each month at Lodge Floral Studio. Once they're sent away the elements of the capsules are separated and turned into garden furniture like chairs and garden bricks. "I've always thought before you throw something away, what can you do with it to reuse it or can you recycle it," she said.

Australia Post keeps satchels out of landfill

Online shopping has increased the reliance on single-use, waterproof plastic satchels, which has created a new challenge for Australia Post - how should it effectively keep these satchels out of landfill? In order to solve this issue, the national mail service partnered with recycling organisation TerraCycle to initiate a free scheme that would allow consumers and businesses to return used plastic mailbags to be re-used and recycled into plastic park benches, chairs and other industrial items.

School on collection drive for your old toothbrush

The students of St Josephs's Catholic School in Matamata want your oral care waste. The school is collecting oral care waste as part of the Colgate Community Recycle Drive competition. The competition is in partnership between Colgate and TerraCycle. Just by submitting a collection of oral care waste, the school can go into the draw to win one of 20, $1000 cash prizes or one of two recycled park benches, valued at $1500 and made entirely of oral care waste. TerraCycle recycles and upcycles waste instead of incinerating it or adding to landfill. They also provide "waste" with a new life, creating usable new products out of items that would have been thrown out, such as the park benches made from oral care waste. It offers free recycling programmes, including the Oral care Recycling Programme, funded by brands, manufacturers, and retailers around the world to help people collect and recycle hard-to-recycle waste.

Recicla y gana dinero para asociaciones

La cantidad más reciente que se ha logrado donar son 409,936.74 pesos Monterrey, Nuevo León.— La misión de TerraCycle ha sido eliminar la idea de que existe basura, promoviendo recolectar y reciclar casi cualquier tipo de residuos, la empresa ha elaborado distintos programas que le ayudan a cumplir con su misión por lo que ha conseguido aumentar la cultura de reciclaje en nuestro país. Entre los benéficos que ofrece la empresa está que las personas que se unen a los diferentes programas de recolección pueden acumular puntos, que se traducen en dinero que es donado a múltiples causas sociales dentro del país. La cantidad más reciente que se ha logrado donar son 409 mil 936.74 pesos. Algunas de las asociaciones que se han visto beneficiadas son las siguientes: 1. Apanical (Asociación de Padres de Niños con Cáncer y Leucemia), ubicada en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, ha recibido 135 mil 360 pesos. 2. Escuela Secundaria 20 “Juan F. Escamilla”, recibió 22 mil 999 pesos, se localiza en Monterrey, Nuevo León. 3. Escuela “Francisco I. Madero”, en Mezquitic, Jalisco, recibió 20 mil 29 pesos. 4. Operación Sonrisa, en Zapopan, Jalisco, recibió 16 mil 185 pesos. Los programas de recolección de TerraCycle incluyen envolturas de jabón, bolsas de pan, empaques de galletas, bolsas de botana, productos de cuidado bucal y envolturas de pan dulce. Cualquier persona puede recolectar estos residuos y enviarlos sin ningún costo para beneficiar a cualquier asociación sin fines de lucro.