Recycling company TerraCycle and Tom’s of Maine are awarding a TerraCycle “Garden Bundle” to the Steamboat Springs store for having the most creative display. The bundle includes recycled plastic lumber for garden beds, watering cans and a selection of TerraCycle garden fertilizer.

If you are one of the many people who use PUR or Brita filters for your water, there is exciting news! Both companies have partnered with TerraCycle to create recycling programs

If you are a parent, you know how quickly your kids can go through their toys. Once a toy breaks, or when a new toy craze hits the market, it’s out with the old and in with the new. Considering Americans buy more than $18 billion worth of toys annually, you’re not alone.

The “green gap” is alive and well, yet many companies and marketers still don’t seem to notice. On the one hand, we continue to see a massive influx of passionate consumers telling us they are willing to pay a premium for products from socially and environmentally responsible companies

Something that I personally love about Tom’s of Maine deodorant is that there are no parabens, artificial ingredients, petrochemicals or aluminum.  Tom’s of Maine also does not test on animals and they use no animal ingredients.

Wendy Caraballo explains. “One interesting thing we do is partner up with Tom’s of Maine to reuse all of their scrap material that accumulates during the tube printing process. They use a third party company called TerraCycle that takes the Tom’s of Maine printed scrap and turns it into colorful tote bags that are sold in specialty grocery stores.

This challenge also resulted in the Green Mountain HQ in Austin gaining an additional onsite recycling option! Next to the batteries, plastic bag and electronics recycling station, we now have a box for toothpaste and shampoo containers and other related materials for recycling through the Tom’s of Main Terracycle program.

TerraCycle wants your trash, and they will pay you (well, a nonprofit of your choice) to send it to them. They take it, make products out of it, and reduce the growth rate of this nightmare.