Crunch time: Walkers announces crisp packet recycling scheme - Business Green
They've been working with an outfit called TerraCycle:
Walkers collaborates with TerraCycle to create UK’s first nationwide recycling scheme for crisp packets - British Plastics and Rubber
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, one of the key movers in the circular economy, is full of praise:
TerraCycle is the world leader in the collection and recycling of otherwise non-recyclable post- consumer waste. In 24 countries, through nationally-operated voluntary collection programmes, TerraCycle recycles pens, toothbrushes, candy wrappers, cosmetic bottles, cigarette butts and many other waste streams.
TerraCycle - Ellen MacArthur Foundation
In fact, it is really attracting considerable praise:
TerraCycle: Eliminating the idea of waste by recycling everything | GreenBiz
TerraCycle Makes Money Off Your Recycled Cigarette Butts and Flip-Flops - Bloomberg
One of their projects is dealing with cigarette waste:
Every year, billions of cigarette butts end up in dumpsters and landfills, or get tossed as litter on shorelines, parks, and sidewalks across the US. The waste collected through this program is recycled into a variety of industrial products, such as plastic pallets, and any remaining tobacco is recycled as compost.
· TerraCycle
TerraCycle Cigarette Waste Brigade® - YouTube
Company Recycles Cigarette Butts and Turns Them into Useful Things Instead
TerraCycle Wants to Recycle Litter From Trillions of Cigarette Butts Into Plastic - CityLab
And this should be happening in Sidmouth soon:
We will soon be organising a third steering group meeting, one of the aims of which will be to try to get a unified collection scheme going in the town for cigarette butts, which were extremely prevalent on the beach, prom and town this year. Probably because of the lack of rain in the first half of the summer, it became incredily obvious just how bad the problem has become, and how it is seen as acceptable to drop cigarette ends on the floor (when they are in fact made from plastic).
TerraCycle Cigarette Waste Brigade® - YouTube
Company Recycles Cigarette Butts and Turns Them into Useful Things Instead
TerraCycle Wants to Recycle Litter From Trillions of Cigarette Butts Into Plastic - CityLab
And this should be happening in Sidmouth soon:
We will soon be organising a third steering group meeting, one of the aims of which will be to try to get a unified collection scheme going in the town for cigarette butts, which were extremely prevalent on the beach, prom and town this year. Probably because of the lack of rain in the first half of the summer, it became incredily obvious just how bad the problem has become, and how it is seen as acceptable to drop cigarette ends on the floor (when they are in fact made from plastic).
Our idea is to organise ourselves and then raise funding for cigarette butt bins for all bus stops and as many benches as we can, with someone in charge of emptying just one of them each with a rota established for collecting them all together, storing them (venue to be established as I really don't want these in my garage), to then send them off to Terracycle for their recycling scheme. This will need a properly engineered bid, properly worked out logistics and more of a team effort than anything else we have undertaken. Watch this space. Find out more about the Terracycle programme here.
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Futures Forum: Sidmouth Plastic Warriors > beach clean tomorrow Saturday 26th October > and the Terracycle programme to recycle cigarette buts
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