Old or broken drinking glasses. Burned-out incandescent light bulbs. Empty prescription-medicine vials. These are on an increasingly shortlist of common waste items that we can’t put in our residential curbside recycling bin. They are the unrecyclables. That sounds … Continue reading
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Creative Reuse Centers, Buy Recycled, Arts, Education, Community Gardens. Visit our web site www.trash2treasurefl.org CityLink Beerfest 2012 to Benefit Trash to Treasure It’s that time again beer fans. City Link Beer Fest and Trash to Treasure team … Continue reading
TerraCycle, a small upcycling company based in New Jersey, has launched its new program, Cigarette Waste Brigade, which aims to collect various wastes from cigarettes and tobaccos – cigarette butts, rolling papers, loose tobacco pouches, plastic wrapper, foil, and ashes. … Continue reading
As Earth911 recently reported, cigarettes can now be recycled in the U.S. thanks to a new partnership between TerraCycle, a company that finds recycling solutions for items that aren’t easy to recycle, and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. TerraCycle collects … Continue reading
For Pam, your notoriously hard-to-shop-for sister-in-law: For impossible-to-shop-for gift recipients, sometimes a gift certificate is the safest — and most practical — option. Launched with the aid of erstwhile “Lazy Environmentalist” and former MNN columnist Josh Dorfman, Vine.com is a new, one-stop shopping … Continue reading
From glue sticks to flip-flops, TerraCycle embraces hard-to-recycle waste with open arms. And with a new collection scheme, the company is taking on the country’s most pervasive type of litter: Cigarette butts. If you’re at all familiar with “waste solution … Continue reading
From glue sticks to flip-flops, TerraCycle embraces hard-to-recycle waste with open arms. And with a new collection scheme, the company is taking on the country’s most pervasive type of litter: Cigarette butts. If you’re at all familiar with “waste solution … Continue reading
SVN was started by a few visionary “dough nuts” (rich hippies), who wanted to use their wealth to make revolutionary stuff happen. It has attracted a mix of successful social entrepreneurs over the years including Ben and Jerry and Virgin’s … Continue reading
Tom Szaky collects the most disgusting things. Yucky yogurt containers. Sticky candy wrappers. Old flip-flops. Now, he and his Trenton company, TerraCycle, are onto a new one: cigarette butts, the most common litter items on the planet. (And much, much … Continue reading