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News articles

3 Easy Steps to Eliminate Litter in your City

Institute a Program for Upcycling Cigarette Butts.  These Cities are Trading in Cigarette Butts for Cash. Have your community collect and store the cigarette butts separately and upcycle them by mailing them to Terracycle.  Find out more about Terracycle’s program. (You’ll have to … Continue Reading

MuseumofLitter.org · Jan 13, 2015

Cincinnati parish program gives trash second life ‘Beyond the Bin’

At the national level, organizations like TerraCycle, Inc., make new recyclable products from things that don’t start out that way, providing free collection programs for such hard-to-recycle materials. Spatz shared this information with the small St. Anthony community. Though its … Continue Reading

National Catholic Reporter · Jan 13, 2015

Cigarette Butt Recycling Initiative Goes National With New Local Grants Program

In some areas, cigarette litter recycling can actually be profitable for cities. As reported previously by GovExec State & Local, companies such as New Jersey-based TerraCycle are paying cities like Salem, Massachusetts, for their recycled butts. In order to track litter-reduction … Continue Reading

Government Executive · Jan 12, 2015

Cashless Classroom Fundraising

Sawyer County Record · Jan 6, 2015

Long live pouch packaging!

NewHope360.com · Jan 2, 2015

Preschool leads way in effort to recycle bags

Parsons Sun Online · Jan 1, 2015

Upcycled Mail Sack Ipod Case Review & Giveaway from @TerraCycle

Surviving the Spawn Blog · Dec 31, 2014

Because You Asked: Can I Recycle Toothpaste Tubes?

Recyclebank’s Live Green blog · Dec 24, 2014