Have you ever wondered what happens when you recycle a potato chip bag? That bag could be turned into the next 3D-printed trinket. New York-based 3D Brooklyn has teamed up with TerraCycle to transform recycled potato chip bags into 3D printer filament—an excellent step in the right direction to slowing the world’s massive waste issue. The innovative company has also begun selling their mix of 80% recycled polypropylene / 20% recycled polyethylene online.
To prevent the pileup of empty bottles in landfills from the fallout of the city’s drinking water crisis, officials announced Thursday that residents will immediately have biweekly curbside pickup service.With thousands of water bottle donations coming in by the hour to assist residents dealing with unusable tap water from corroded lead pipes, recycling companies have stepped up to keep Flint from becoming blighted by plastic.
A plan to recycle the thousands of plastic bottles being distributed to Flint residents during the water emergency was announced today by a coalition of state, Genesee County and City of Flint partners. Lt. Gov. Brian Calley said the goal is to provide residents with several convenient options. “While bottled water has been key to making sure residents have safe drinking water, it’s important to make sure we’re not harming our environment as a result,” Calley said. “The new recycling initiative brings together state, county and city partners to make sure we are keeping plastic bottles from entering landfills or littering Flint streets.”
La « Brigade des instruments d’écriture » : derrière cette dénomination se cache une opération solidaire organisée par
TerraCycle pour l’association l’enfant@l’hôpital. Le pôle handicap de la commune de
Fontenay-le-
Fleury a décidé de s’y associer.
Il s’agit de collecter les crayons usagés et de les transformer en dons. A titre d’exemple, pour 20 kg de stylos récoltés, l’association touche 40 €. Pour ce faire, des boîtes sont placées dans différents points de la ville dont une à l’accueil de la mairie. L’enfant@l’hôpital met ensuite à disposition les technologies numériques au service des enfants malades et des handicapés hospitalisés.
Most of the single use plastic that comes into our lives can be recycled, but there are some items like chip and snack bags that can't go in the recycling bin. 3D Brooklyn has partnered with TerraCycle, the company known for recycling materials that aren't typically recyclable, to produce something new and useful from that waste plastic. TerraCycle takes the plastic snack bags that they collect and turns them into plastic pellets that they send to 3D Brooklyn where the pellets are then made into an ABS plastic filament.
Typical recycling involves sending off your old cans, bottles, boxes and papers to be re-purposed somewhere far away, sight unseen. TerraCycle and 3D Brooklyn allow you to determine what gets made from recycled materials, thanks to a process that turns used chip and snack bags into plastic filament for use in 3D printing.
Quelle Energie a interviewé les fondateurs de la jeune start-up lyonnaise : Cy-Clope.Antoine Di Tommaso et Thibault Legrand ont lancé l’année dernière la première filière de gestion du mégot. Ces deux jeunes entrepreneurs ont imaginé un collecteur de mégots de cigarettes pour valoriser ces déchets en … plastique !
This is a great month for de-cluttering your life. Although any month will do, January is a fresh year. Start small. Do not overwhelm yourself with all your stuff. Take one mess at a time. Then start sorting. Just remember, your junk might be someone else’s treasure, so recycle.
