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Campaign coming to Hampton Roads to combat cigarette butt litter
Over the next eight weeks, Hampton, James City County, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach will use educational materials, cigarette butt receptacles and other methods to try to cut down on the number of discarded cigarette butts and plastic cigar tips. The effort includes a $12,500 grant from Keep America Beautiful.
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Recycling for charity
Frank Elem. earns $800 recycling drink pouches
PERRYSBURG - Frank Elementary School's Recycling Team has just reached the second level of TerraCycle and Capri Sun's Drink Pouch Brigade milestone contest by collecting more than 18,000 drink pouches. The students have earned nearly $800 for their school by collecting the drink pouches.
Monument schoolchildren learn that one person's trash becomes a charity's treasure
"It smells. It's nasty," said Gwen Shindel, who teaches fourth and fifth grade at Prairie Winds Elementary School in Monument.
But not one student has complained about the school's efforts to save normally unrecyclable food packaging from ending up in the garbage.
St Michel emballe tout le monde avec son nouveau programme de recyclage solidaire !
Les emballages de biscuits et patisseries, qui sont très populaires dans l'hexagone, (avec une consommation annuelle de près de 9 kg par an !) sont aussi souvent assez polluants avec les nombreux emballages qu'ils laissent derrière eux.
Recycling venture at Midhirst school
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Colgate Oral Care Brigade
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Include New Zealand
dental floss containers
Locals can now help to save used oral care items from ending up in landfill whilst also helping to raise funds for Midhirst School.
Students in the Paritutu class at the school are in charge of running the Colgate Community Recycle Drive at the school, aimed at promoting the recycling of previously unrecyclable oral care items, including toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, dental floss containers and packaging.
The drive, supported by international upcycling and recycling comapny TerraCycle, was launched at the school last week.
"It is a great idea because it reduces the amount of stuff going in the landfill," Jessica Gavan (12) says she thinks it is great to be able to recycle items that otherwise end up in the household rubbish. "But no actual dental floss please!" Bethan Upton-Hansen (12) is hoping people use some common sense when they bring in dental items for the drive. "Put used toothbrushes in a plastic bag first, we need to think about hygiene as well."
Keren Whareaitu (12) says the mitigative helps the school raise needed funds. "We get money back from TerraCycle for the amount of waste they collect, plus we have the chance of winning a share of a prize pool of $32,500."
Tyler Smith (13) is impressed with the way the items they collect can be recycled. "They make them into things like benches and rubbish bins which is much better than them ending up IN the rubbish!"
"It is estimated that seven million toothbrushes and 16 million toothpaste tubes are used in New Zealand each year. This exciting national challenge is a New Zealand first. We're calling on local residents to dig deep by saving all their used oral care items as part of Colgate's Oral Care Brigade and support Midhirst school," says Anna Minns, general manager, TerraCycle.
"Even if we get just a small percentage of those items, we will be able to make a difference. Reducing landfill waste is important for everyone, not just us, but the students who will come after us." Jessica says she hopes people from all around the district, not just those who have children enrolled at the school, will make the effort to drop off their recyclable oral care items.
"Our school values environmental sustainability and we have been encouraging our students to recycle with our council recycling programme." Colleen Tett, the teacher in charge of the project at the school, says they are excited that TerraCycle is providing a solution for previously difficult to recycle waste.
Locals are encouraged to drop off their oral care items and packaging to the public access collection box at the Midhirst School Office at 8 Erin Street Midhirst, R. D. 24, Stratford, 4394, Taranaki during school hours. Two cents is earned for each piece of oral care waste that the school sends in for recycling so every bit will help.
- Stratford Press
By ILONA HANNE
Butt out butts
Recycling Butts? Yes You Can! TerraCycle, working with the Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, turns cigarette waste into industrial products such as plastic pallets. They accept butts, filters, loose tobacco pouches, outer plastic packaging, inner foil packaging, rolling paper and ash.