Gardeners searching for the perfect plants at the Kearny Walmart garden center are in for a surprise as Walmart offers its usual annuals with a twist.
This month, Walmart has partnered with Garden State Growers and TerraCycle to offer its plants in upcycled margarine tubs in Walmart stores.
The upcycled pots will come from used tubs of Country Crock, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Promise and Brummel & Brown.
The tubs are a more eco-friendly option as they will be diverted from landfills, eliminate the need to use virgin plastic and can be returned to TerraCycle to be used again.
TerraCycle collects non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste and uses it to create affordable, eco-friendly products, offering an end-of-life solution.
One of the activities that many of Michigan Green Schools participate in is the recycling of used packaging and products such as chip bags, candy wrappers and juice pouches. The waste is collected through TerraCycle's Brigade program (www.terracycle.net), which pays the schools and nonprofits for their efforts and then recycles the material into cool products.
Two New Jersey companies have partnered with Walmart stores in the Northeast to put non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle margarine tubs to a new "green" use -- as flower pots.
The companies working with the retailer are Garden State Growers, which grows many types of plants on its 500-acre site, and TerraCycle, which collects waste that is non-recyclable or difficult to recycle and puts it to new use.
One of the activities that many of Michigan Green Schools participate in is the recycling of used packaging and products such as chip bags, candy wrappers and juice pouches. The waste is collected through TerraCycle's Brigade program (www.terracycle.net), which pays the schools and nonprofits for their efforts and then recycles the material into cool products.
Terracycle, a Trenton company that specializes in recycling consumer goods generally considered not reusable, is moving on from kitschy tote bags to plastic lumber.
One of the latest efforts to improve sustainability and keep hardto-
recycle material out of landfills is a collaboration among
Clearwater Nursery in Nipomo, international recycler TerraCycle,
and food and consumer products giant Unilever.
“We’re working with our partners to be the exclusive provider
of potted plants in ‘upcycled’ butter containers,” explained Steven
Medeiros, Clearwater Nursery marketing executive. “The idea
behind the program is to repurpose these containers for a second
and third run.”
Walmart will soon begin to sell plants in upcycled margarine tubs instead of traditional black pots in stores throughout the Northeast. Credit: TerraCycle
ROME - TerraCycle, an international upcycling company based out of Trenton, NJ, has been doing its best to recycle the most difficult of materials and make the world a little greener since 2001. The recycling that TerraCycle promotes is coming to central New York.
TerraCycle has teamed up with Garden State Growers and Wal-Mart to offer annuals that will be sold in upcycled margarine tubs rather than the traditional black pots in which flowers are usually sold. The annuals will be sold at participating Wal-Marts in New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The flowers will be made available at Wal-Mart beginning the week of April, 17.
In a world of where small businesses are run, TerraCycle is the name of a company that has a very unusual business model. This company which is progressing in “going-global” phase turns the world’s waste into new products. The production is carried by collection of non-recyclable waste mainly from manufacturers, also some from school, charities and other community groups. And as by becoming partners with manufactures to “recycle: of “upcycle” that waste materials into new products like plastic lumber from juice pouches and shower curtains from sewn-together granola wrappers.
TerraCycle evolved from being a consumer products company that sold worm waste to Wal-Mart and other retailers to being a company that runs waste collection programs and oversees more than 1,500 unique products that are made from the collected material.
Garden center shoppers in the North Brunswick Wal-Mart, 979 Route 1 south, will see something other than the black pots in which flowers are traditionally sold. Garden State Growers and TerraCycle are offering annuals in upcycled margarine tubs. The upcycled pots are a more eco-friendly option because they eliminate the need to use virgin plastic and can be returned to TerraCycle to be used again. The plants will retail for approximately $5 each and will be shipped April 17 to the North Brunswick Wal-Mart as well as other select Wal-Mart stores in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont.
TerraCycle collects non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste and uses it to create affordable, eco-friendly products. Through this partnership with Garden State Growers, one of the largest nurseries in New Jersey, TerraCycle has found an end-of-life solution for the Country Crock, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Promise, and Brummel & Brown tubs it has diverted from landfills.
