Eliminating the idea of waste
We’re often asked why Zero Waste Boxes cost money while the national programmes are generally free to consumers. First, it's important to highlight that no recycling is free. Someone is paying, somewhere along the line.
In an ideal world, TerraCycle would not exist. Our recycling solutions are a response to the world’s challenge with waste that has been growing since the 1950s, and we know that we can’t recycle our way out of it. Letting go of our love of disposability, learning to see rubbish as a resource, and purchasing [...]
You may already know that you can #RecycleEverything with TerraCycle: collect, ship and then we recycle. That’s not the whole story though. Our Materials Solutions team plays an important part too. Here’s how.
What does recycling actually mean? The Ellen Macarthur Foundation defines material recycling as reprocessing, by means of a manufacturing process, of a used packaging material into a product, a component incorporated into a product, or a secondary (recycled) raw material; excluding energy recovery and the use of the product as a fuel.
In our last post, we showed why recycling is better than landfill. But sometimes people still ask us about the environmental effects of our whole process, including the environmental impact of getting the items back to us to recycle.
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