TerraCycle is an international leader in innovative sustainability solutions, creating and operating first-of-their-kind platforms in recycling, recycled materials, and reuse. Across 21 countries, we’re developing practical solutions for today’s complex waste challenges.
You have more power to protect our planet than you may think. Recycling can sometimes feel like an individual action, but when we all make an effort to recycle hard-to-recycle trash instead of sending it to landfills and incinerators, we can make a big difference. While we continue to work toward our goal of Eliminating the Idea of Waste® through our recycling solutions, reuse platform, and the TerraCycle Foundation, there are lots of small, individual actions we can all take to make a big difference, like:
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Recycling with TerraCycle is simple! We offer free and paid recycling solutions to help our TerraCyclers recycle as much as possible. Follow these steps to get started…
Recycling has many environmental benefits, like reducing the need to extract virgin materials from the planet, preventing trash from being landfilled or littered, and reusing valuable materials (like plastic). Plus, recycling with TerraCycle is proven to be better for the planet than landfilling or incinerating trash. Third-party-verified life cycle assessments (LCAs) show that our recycling models have a lower environmental impact than traditional solutions across eight major categories (including global warming).
Through an LCA of our rigid plastics recycling process, TerraCycle’s solutions were found to be 73% better for the planet than landfills and 67% better than waste-to-energy.
At TerraCycle, we’ve cemented our place as an international leader in innovative sustainability solutions in many ways. We’ve collaborated closely with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to advance reuse adoption for over a decade, participated in working groups to help define standards and shape policy recommendations around reuse, and even provided recommendations to help improve the Federal Trade Commission’s Green Guides.
During Earth Month and every month, we’ll be here with solutions for recycling your hard-to-recycle trash until our programs are no longer needed.