Une leçon de choses du tri alimentaire dispensée aux élèves de Gassendi qui prennent part par ailleurs à une opération de solidarité passant par une collecte de stylo
Dans le cadre de la politique du Conseil Départemental 04 qui souhaite mettre en place des plate-formes de compostage dans tous les collèges du département, une opération exemplaire est menée au collège Gassendi de Digne-les-Bains. En étroit partenariat avec le Conseil départemental qui s’occupe de la commande du matériel (plate-forme de compostage) et du financement, le SYDEVOM a investi le collège Gassendi pour une leçon de choses actives concernant la réduction et le retraitement des déchets alimentaires. Sensibilisation des élèves et du personnel, affiche et communication, évaluation des besoins de la plate-forme et du volume des déchets.
Toutes les classes (6ème à 3ème) du collège ont reçu des informations sur la pollution des déchets et l’impact sur la faune, le tri, les ordures ménagères et le compostage. Egalement, tous les collégiens ont dû trier leur plateau repas avec d’un côté ce qui va au compostage et de l’autre ce qui n’est pas compostable.
En attendant la plate-forme de compostage, le collège dispose également d’un petit composteur bois. Enfin, des boîtes pour récolter le marc de café ont été mises en place dans différents espaces du collège (administration, intendance, vie scolaire, cuisine etc…).
Le marc sera collecté à part des ordures ménagères pour être acheminé dans ce composteur bois.
One of my favorite discoveries in this fascinating world of green innovation is the company
Terracycle. Simply put, founder and Princeton-dropout
Tom Szaky recycles the unrecyclable. You can participate by signing up for different recycling collection programs, collecting your waste, and then shipping it back to Terracycle.
We value recycling in our society because it finds secondary use for materials that would otherwise end up in a landfill. The biggest drawback to this from a material perspective is that the recycled products almost always diminish in quality each time they are processed (or “downcycled”). Steel, aluminum and glass may be endlessly recyclable, but the virgin plastic in a water bottle is not. This limits the potential for reuse across a wide variety of waste streams, pre and post-consumer packaging included, to the point that the ultimate end-of-life destination is still usually the landfill or incinerator. This is a far cry from what many in the field of sustainability would say is the most ideal reuse model: a circular economy.
Students and teachers at Ranchvale Elementary School have found a way to recycle their lunches, or more specifically, their lunch containers.
Ranchvale was named the number one recycler of lunch kits — lunch kits including Lunchables and similar pre-packaged lunch products — in New Mexico by Trenton, New Jersey-based recycler TerraCycle Inc., according to a press release from the company.
By Maggie Wehri
Paper Mate and Sharpie teamed up with TerraCycle to offer consumers a way to recycle their used writing instruments.
We all love our favorite highlighter, marker, pen or pencil, but after that last scribble or strike on your paper, it’s out with the old and in with the new. Because we go through these items so often, it’s a wonder there is not a better way to recycle our used highlighters, markers, pens and pencils.
To help lessen our burden on the environment, Paper Mate and Sharpie teamed up with TerraCycle, a company that takes used waste and recycles into new products. TerraCycle says it technically recycles the “nonrecyclable”; these materials must be collected, sorted and processes differently than what some may consider “traditional” recyclable materials.
By sending your spent writing instruments to TerraCycle, your waste can avoid the nearest landfill or incinerator and instead produce new products made from collected garbage. In turn, TerraCycle believes this reduces the need to extract new materials from the planet and therefore lessens the environmental impact.
So, how can you get started? Signing up with TerraCycle is completely free and quick and easy. There are no hidden fees, and the program covers the shipping, too. Once you have joined, collect enough writing instruments to fill up a box or bag, download a prepaid shipping label and ship the box back to TerraCycle by dropping it off at the nearest UPS location. For additional information on how to collect, store and ship these items, check out this guide and read through TerraCycle’s FAQs.
Acceptable waste items include pens and pen caps, mechanical pencils, markers and marker caps, permanent markers and permanent marker caps.
But, what does TerraCycle do with these items? The company managed to make a recycled plastic storage bin. TerraCycle boasts about its versatile bin to store laundry, paper waste, toys, blankets, clothes and pretty much anything else you can think of. At press time, nearly 1.3 million writing instruments have been collected.
If you are looking to recycle other materials beyond your writing instruments, TerraCycle offers a plethora of “nonrecyclable” programs to anyone in the continental US. From scotch tape to energy bar wrappers, TerraCycle is turning the nonrecyclable into useful recycled products for the home
- See more at:
http://1800recycling.com/2014/05/recycling-nonrecyclable-highlighters-markers-pens-pencils#sthash.owWm8rgn.dpuf
http://www.thurnhamglasson.lancs.sch.uk/download/file/3%20April%202014.pdf
In partnership with TerraCycle and OfficeMax, Procurement & Contacts has launched this Brigade which collects writing instruments across the campus, consolidates them through UCSD Mail Services and ultimately sends the instruments to TerraCycle, where they are recycled into new products.
TerraCycle, based in Trenton, N.J., was founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky and began by producing liquid organic fertilizer in used soda bottles. Now, it’s one of the fastest growing green companies in the world, seeking to educate and persuade people, communities, and corporations to adopt a greener, cleaner lifestyle
