How TerraCycle Can Help You Recycle Like A Pro
As we were researching easy recycle tips for our post on Eco-Friendly Home: 5 Quick Ideas To Jumpstart Your Way to Zero Waste, we  found out about TerraCycle, a company that has taken on the challenge of recycling items that are tough to recycle, helping create a solution to recycling almost all of your waste. TerraCycle lets you search for commonly used items like single-use contact lens containers, dental care products, energy bar wrappers, laundry products and even unique products like instrument strings. TerraCycle will display waste stream recycling options, many of which are completely free, thanks to partnerships that the company has struck with various brands. In other cases, as for action figures or alkaline batteries, you pay a one-time fee for a box, which you can then fill and send to TerraCycle. They also include paid options for regulated waste (like medical supply waste) and large scale recycling needs. Once received, TerraCycle reuses, recycles and upcycles the products, diverting them from landfills and incinerators. How cool is that? Here’s how TerraCycle describes their organization:TerraCycle is Eliminating the Idea of Waste by recycling the “non-recyclable.” Whether it’s coffee capsules from your home, pens from a school, or plastic gloves from a manufacturing facility, TerraCycle can collect and recycle almost any form of waste. We partner with individual collectors such as yourself, as well as major consumer product companies, retailers, manufacturers, municipalities, and small businesses across 20 different countries. With your help, we are able to divert millions of pounds of waste from landfills and incinerators each month.