You’ve probably seen them in the cereal aisle at the grocery store: bags of bargain cereal with one-off names like Cinnamon Toasters, Apple Zings and Honey Nut Scooters. The titan of bagged cereals, the Minneapolis, Minn.-based Malt-O-Meal, has found a … Continue reading
The Friends of Van Cortlandt Park is collecting non-recyclable items as part of a promotion to reduce waste and to raise money for various programs. Items being collected are: candy wrapper packaging from Mars/Wrigley or Cadbury; empty drink pouches from … Continue reading
With budget cuts increasing every year, local teachers are saving trash to meet their classroom needs. Thomson Elementary, Norris Elementary and Maxwell Elementary schools earn money for used drink pouches, cookie and candy wrappers, chip bags and other trash that … Continue reading
TerraCycle has gotten a lot of media attention for its unusual business model: Basically, it takes waste and turns it into a wide range of products, from fertilizer to computer bags to kites. Co-founded by Tom Szaky, who dropped out … Continue reading
TerraCycle is a company that makes eco-friendly products out of recycled and upcycled items. For instance, I am on their cork brigade. I collect corks, save them, and then send them into TerraCycle. There they upcycle them into cork boards. … Continue reading
Nomacorc has joined with TerraCycle to upcycle corks.
TerraCycle’s Green Up Shop in New York City is profiled in a Japanese magazine.
There are similar projects to Trashy Bags in other countries. “Bazura Bags ” in the Philippines makes bags from offcuts left over by packaging companies, India’s “Thunk in India,” makes all kinds of recycled products, including pencil cases made from … Continue reading
Where in this is environmental education? In most cases, non existent. This is a problem—How can we expect the children of today to be capable stewards of our troubled planet when they don’t have the basic knowledge of what’s going … Continue reading
As part of a new collaboration, a handful of residents is turning trash into cash. It’s an effort to go green while getting green. Gloria Gilbert, founder of the Westford Farmer’s Market, recently launched Sustainable Westford — a nonprofit platform … Continue reading