Lead the change: Boost recycling in your community with TerraCycle
With TerraCycle, you can help your community recycle more FOR FREE.
TerraCycle recycles the unrecyclable—items not typically accepted by kerbside recycling services. You or your group can become a recycling champion for your community and keep rubbish out of landfills and incinerators. Plus, when you recycle with us, you earn TerraCycle Recycling Rewards—points that can be redeemed as a monetary donation to the school, charity, or nonprofit of your choice (including your own organisation).
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To recycle on behalf of your community, be sure to indicate your Organisation Type (e.g.,School, Retail Store, Other) and estimate how many people you will be collecting recycling for under “# People Collecting” when you sign up.
How to recycle the “unrecyclable”
TerraCycle has dozens of FREE recycling programmes for everything from snack packaging to beauty waste.
Who can participate
Any individual or group can recycle with TerraCycle on behalf of their community. Many nonprofits, local businesses, schools, and more recycle with us. Anyone who wants to make a difference in their community is invited to participate! Remember, it’s easy and completely FREE. (Hey, schools, we have special resources and incentives for you here!)
Community TerraCyclers in action
A loyal community of TerraCyclers
Holy Trinity church, in Gillingham, became a TerraCycle drop-off point in March 2018. Since then, they have joined a growing number of TerraCycle free recycling programmes to make recycling more accessible for everyone. “Caring for the environment is an important part of our work as we look to take care of our community, live an eco-friendly lifestyle, and educate young people”, they explained to us.
Sustainability for travelling foodies
Thanks to their food truck, Anne-Laure and Emeric have raised more than 1,000 euros for @lueurdespoirpourayden, a charity that supports research on leukodystrophies and helps families of children with Krabbe’s disease. Through their food truck activity, they travel across France and collect various types of hard-to-recycle rubbish, from empty bread bags to empty applesauce pouches to coffee pods, which they send for free to TerraCycle to be recycled.
An out-of-this-world green hero
‘’What Planet Are You On?’’, isn’t just your typical store—it’s a zero waste refill shop located in Guisborough, North Yorkshire. As a TerraCycle public drop-off point, they collect a variety of items, from crisp tubes to bread wrappers and writing instruments, keeping hard-to-recycle rubbish out of landfills and incinerators.
How it works
You’re in charge. Recycle with TerraCycle in the way that makes sense for you, your group, or your organisation, whether it’s a one-time collection event, a public drop-off point, a community beach cleanup, or something else you come up with. It’s always free to recycle through our free recycling programmes.
Host a one-time collection event
Plan a recycling drive for items with a longer lifespan that people typically don’t need to recycle frequently, like your laundry care packaging, your personal care product packaging, and your plastic food storage containers. Consider hosting these regularly, such as quarterly, at public spaces like farmer’s markets, municipal buildings, or religious institutions.
Organize a community cleanup
Plan cleanup events to motivate your community members to pick up waste and beautify your neighborhoods, public spaces, and parks. To drum up participation, host cleanups on environmental holidays, like Earth Day and World Oceans Day.
Start a public drop-off point
Interested in making an ongoing difference? Start a public drop-off point to give your community a longer-term solution for recycling through TerraCycle’s free recycling programmes. It’s easy:
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Choose a location
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Set up your drop-off and start collecting
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Send in recycling (using free prepaid labels or QR codes) to earn rewards
Start a public drop-off point →
How to earn & redeem TerraCycle Recycling Rewards
You will automatically earn TerraCycle points in your account when you send in qualifying shipments of rubbish through participating TerraCycle free recycling programmes. Redeem your points as a monetary donation to the school, nonprofit, or charity of your choice (even your own organization)! Keep an eye on our Contests and Promotions page for chances to win extra points. It pays to help your community recycle more.
Get started today!
Thank you for helping your community eliminate the idea of waste! Get started by creating a free TerraCycle account. To recycle on behalf of your community, be sure to indicate your Organisation Type (e.g.,School, Retail Store, Other) and how many people you will be collecting recycling for under # People Collecting.
Resources
Questions? We’re here for you.
We’re here to help make recycling for your community easy and rewarding. Visit our full Frequently Asked Questions page for more information, or reach out to customercare@terracycle.co.uk.