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Recycle and raise money for nature

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Transcript: TerraCycle is a recycling company that deals with hard-to-recycle waste such as toothbrushes, coffee capsules, and even cigarette butts and chewing gum! World Environment Day 2017 is coming up on Monday June 5, and in line with this year’s theme With Nature, TerraCycle is calling on New Zealanders to recycle and raise money for nature. In New Zealand we offer a number of free programs that allow you to recycle ‘non-recyclable’ packaging and products. From oral care waste and yoghurt pouches to coffee capsules and soft plastic food storage products, our programs deal with items that many don’t realise are in fact recyclable. These programs are sponsored by brands such as GLAD, Colgate, The Collective, Nescafe Dolce Gusto, Fonterra and more, which means you can recycle these products for free. Anyone can sign up to TerraCycle, whether you’re a household, office, school or clean-up organisation. Our recycling programs also give back to the community through a cool points scheme. You receive two points – which is converted to two cents - for each piece of waste sent in to TerraCycle, which can be donated to your chosen not-for-profit or school. This World Environment Day we’re encouraging you to start thinking about how your donation can make an impact on protecting the environment. Clean-up groups, environment and wildlife protection associations, food waste-minimisation initiatives and more, are all organisations worth considering for World Environment Day. Find out more about how you can recycle at TerraCycle.co.nz – T E R R A C Y C L E .co.nz
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Lower Hutt tots get early lesson in recycling

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It's never too early to learn the value of recycling as toddlers in the Lower Hutt suburb of Korokoro are  discovering. Korokoro Playcentre has been involved in The Collective Suckies Recycling Programme where they collect used yoghurt "suckies'' pouches, caps, tubes and containers. The programme is run by TerraCycle, a company which   rewards participants for each kilogram of waste they save from the tip. The programmes are funded by various brands, manufacturers and retailers. Many of the containers come to the playcentre as part of the children's lunches. Playcentre mum Katie Robinson  said  Korokoro had been involved with the programme since the end of last year and  had so far saved about 5 kilograms of yoghurt containers from the tip. It was an excellent effort considering the playcentre only had a roll of 30. Although the playcentre had only netted about $5 in rewards, Robinson said it was more about doing their bit for the environment. "It's about the amount of stuff not ending up in the dump." The programme also exposed the children to the recycling message which was important to the playcentre's ethos and Korokoro community. Any money raised would be put into the playcentre's other sustainability programmes such as its fruit and vegetable garden. The playcentre has also established recycling "drop-off" bins where the public could donate further yoghurt containers and oral care items such as toothbrushes which go towards their recycling total. TerraCycle is a United States based company which operates recycling programmes in 20 countries. It collects typically non-recyclable waste such as cigarette butts and coffee pods which are either recycled or upcycled into other products.
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