Bring your recycling to a participating Community Collection Hub near you. It's free, and you won't need a TerraCycle account or shipping label.
This map is constantly being updated
Simply request to join this programme, and once you are confirmed, your location will show up on the Community Collection Hub map. Set up boxes that community members can fill with their rubbish to be recycled, and send full boxes to TerraCycle at no cost to you.
Starting and managing a TerraCycle Community Collection Hub is easy and free! See answers to frequently-asked questions here. Can’t find the answer to your question on this page? Learn more about becoming a Community Collection Hub.
It’s quite simple to set up and manage a Community Collection Hub, and you can recruit a group of friends to help!
Set Up:
Manage:
Promote: Spread awareness about your Hub (as you see fit) to encourage participation.
Allocate: As you accumulate TerraCycle recycling rewards, choose which charities will receive donations from your points.
Gillette sponsors this national recycling programme making it free for you to participate.
Public spaces that have good traffic flow and are easily accessible are excellent Community Collection Hubs. Stores, community centers, places of worship, and libraries are great options.
You choose which TerraCycle free recycling programmes your Community Collection Hub will participate in. Collectors can drop off only the rubbish accepted in those TerraCycle programmes.
Earn TerraCycle points by recycling with us! You can redeem your points in the form of a donation to a school or charity of your choice. Thanks to the recycling efforts of our collectors, we've raised over $45 million dollars globally for schools and charities through our recycling programmes.
Click here to learn more about our Recycling Rewards Programm
We’ve made getting started with the Gillette Razor Free Recycling Programme easy! Simply download a free shipping label to ship your used razors and their packaging to TerraCycle, and we’ll recycle them.
Participating in this programme is easy and FREE! See answers to frequently-asked questions here.
Any brand of razor and its packaging - including but not limited to Gillette and Venus.
Outer cardboard packaging can be recycled with your local council, so please don’t include this in your shipment to TerraCycle.
Due to the hazardous nature of the waste, it is required that all packages shipped through this programme adhere to the following regulations:
Please consider collecting a few months' worth of waste before shipping to TerraCycle.
No, you do not need to clean the packaging before dropping it off for recycling. New Zealand Post will not accept dripping items, so please make sure your items are dry.
Gillette and Venus sponsor this national recycling programme making it free for you to participate.
We encourage you to ship when your box is full of rubbish to minimise the footprint of this programme. New Zealand Post will not accept dripping packages, so please make sure your items are dry.
Earn TerraCycle points by recycling with us! You can redeem your points in the form of a donation to a school or charity of your choice. Thanks to the recycling efforts of our collectors, we've raised over $45 million dollars globally for schools and charities through our recycling programmes.
Click here to learn more about our Recycling Rewards Programme.
Once collected, the razor blades and their packaging are broken down and separated by material. Plastics are cleaned and pelletised to be recycled into new products, and metal materials are sent for smelting and conversion to new alloys.
Click here to take a virtual tour of our processing facilities.