The Barnetts and their 25 employees are inviting their guests to be part of the eco-friendly process. Dunkin’ Brands has partnered with TerraCycle to help recycle some of the brand's packaging. There is a program under development where guests at the Edgewater restaurant can return their empty one-pound coffee bags in exchange for a discount off their purchase of a new bag. Going forward, the program may be expanded to include other brand packaging.

We’ve been trying to get around this economic impasse for years at TerraCycle. When your business model is dependent on new and innovative recycling systems for previously non-recyclable waste streams, you start to notice what gets people excited to start collecting. If you make it easy to do and show that they can benefit their community in the process, many consumers will opt to recycle.

Institute a Program for Upcycling Cigarette Butts.  These Cities are Trading in Cigarette Butts for Cash. Have your community collect and store the cigarette butts separately and upcycle them by mailing them to Terracycle.  Find out more about Terracycle's program. (You'll have to enter your birthdate to prove you're over 18 to enter the Cigarette Waste Brigade.)

At the national level, organizations like TerraCycle, Inc., make new recyclable products from things that don’t start out that way, providing free collection programs for such hard-to-recycle materials. Spatz shared this information with the small St. Anthony community. Though its two weekend liturgies draw at most 200 people, the parish has a long history of addressing social justice issues, she said, including the environment.

In some areas, cigarette litter recycling can actually be profitable for cities. As reported previously by GovExec State & Local, companies such as New Jersey-based TerraCycle are paying cities like Salem, Massachusetts, for their recycled butts. In order to track litter-reduction efforts, CLPP closely monitors programs in newly launched areas.

This is the first of a three-part series by TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky that examines the benefits, risks, misconceptions and long-term viability of bioplastics. Since the relatively recent rise in conscious consumerism, bioplastics — plastics made from biomass such as plants and algae – have been receiving significant attention. With the bioplastic market projected to grow in the next few years, many are pointing to plant-derived plastic alternatives as the ultimate solution to our unsustainable dependence on fossil fuel-based plastics.

O programa “Recicle Mais, Pague Menos” e o projeto piloto “Elimine a Ideia do Lixo” nasceram de uma parceria entre AES Sul e TerraCycle, líder global no segmento de gestão de resíduos de difícil reciclabilidade.

Many eco-fundraising programs pay participants to collect and recycle such things as chip bags, beauty care waste and drink pouches. The Drink Pouch Brigade—offered by Capri Sun and TerraCycle—rewards participants and their schools with points and cash donations for collecting drink pouches. Hazelwood Elementary School in Washington did just that, using money generated through collecting drink pouches to help counteract school-wide funding cuts.