今年夏天，宝洁就会让旗下的畅销品牌“Head & Shoulders”， 首先换上美国回收公司“TerraCycle”，以及法国环境集团“SUEZ”联合生产，并呈黑色的“可回收”再生塑料瓶。

Head & Shoulders bottles will use recycled plastics removed from beaches and waterways.

If you don’t like lifeless hair, dandruff on your shoulders and plastics in your ocean, you can tackle all three in the shower. Procter & Gamble announced Thursday that its Head & Shoulders shampoo bottles will be recyclable and made of up to 25 percent “beach plastics,” from trash removed from beaches, oceans, rivers and other waterways. It will be the first shampoo bottle made from recycled beach plastics, according to the company’s press release. “It’s important to understand how big of a disaster ocean plastics are. It’s horrendous,” Tom Szaky, founder of recycling company TerraCycle, told The Huffington Post. TerraCycle is partnering with P&G to make the bottles. “It creates problems for animals that eat them or get trapped in them. It’s a crisis, and I don’t think people understand the scale of it.” The oceans will contain more plastics than fish by 2050, according to a report from the World Economic Forum. At least 8 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean each year. That’s like tossing the contents of one garbage truck into the ocean every minute. The Head & Shoulder “beach plastic” bottles will be available in France this summer, with plans to expand to other countries after that. While most shampoo and conditioner bottles already can be recycled and some are made of recycled plastic, this is the first using recycled marine plastics, according to Szaky, who said that plastic rescued from oceans and other waterways is notoriously hard to collect and process because it is scattered, degraded and often filled with junk. Getting plastics from beach to bottle is an elaborate process, according to Szaky: Hundreds of organizations and volunteers collect plastics from beaches, harbors and other waterways. TerraCycle takes the collected plastic and sorts it, sending some of it, usually high-density polyethylene (HDPE), to P&G for its bottles. The rest is used to make benches and picnic tables that are given to nonprofits. P&G isn’t the first company to try to tackle the problem of ocean plastics in its products: Method has been making hand soap bottles out of ocean plastics for years, and Adidas launched a sneaker line made with recycled ocean plastics last year. And when it comes to removing plastics from our oceans, anyone can play a role. “Make sure you recycle,” Szaky said. “Go to your local ocean conservancy and participate in cleanup efforts. And really think about what you buy ― only buy what you need. Consumerism is behind many of our environmental problems.”  

Toys! Toys! Toys! Tis the season for more toys, new toys, old toys and sadly broken toys. Whatever can be done with the old and broken toys? Ideally reuse or recycling the toys. In Otsego County, the Recycling Program bins are for containers, papers, glass jars and bottles, metal cans, aluminum trays and plastic bottles. Hard plastic toys are not recyclable in this program for Otsego County. So what can you do? Here are some creative suggestions: • Toys that are in good condition can be donated to Salvation Army or Goodwill to receive a receipt for a tax-deduction. • Gentle used toys can be donated to local daycares, preschools or churches. • Broken toys can be fixed at home by contacting the manufacture such as Lego and Little Tikes for replacement parts. Or This Old Toy (www.thisoldtoy.com/repair) or Randy’s Toy Shop (www.randystoyshop.com) are examples of places toys can be sent to for repair. • Contact companies such as TerraCycle to send broken and old plastic toys to. They may be able to be used in upcycling projects, like park benches.

Wir brauchen und lieben unsere Pflegerituale. Doch wohin mit dem Verpackungsmüll? Vichy bietet jetzt die Möglichkeit zum Recyceln. Leere Tiegel und Tuben in die Apotheke bringen, Stempel im Sammelpass abholen und für sechs leere Vichy-Produkte ein Duschgel gratis kassieren.