Procter & Gamble announced that it has teamed up with us at TerraCycle and SUEZ, the largest waste management company in Europe, to source, develop and put out the first fully recyclable shampoo bottle made from up to 25 %
recycled beach plastic for the world's # 1 shampoo brand, Head & Shoulders.
Virginie Helias, P&G's vice president for global sustainability, and Terracycle chief executive Tom Szaky holding a Head & Shoulders bottle made from
recycled beach plastic.
Not exact matches
Recycling company TerraCycle plans to expand its
beach cleanup programs to collect up to 1,000 tons of
plastic waste globally.
Recycling success: Two years ago, 2nd - graders at Old Kings Elementary School in Flagler Beach began a recycling campaign for plastic and later boycotted disposable plastic lun
Recycling success: Two years ago, 2nd - graders at Old Kings Elementary School in Flagler
Beach began a
recycling campaign for plastic and later boycotted disposable plastic lun
recycling campaign for
plastic and later boycotted disposable
plastic lunch trays.
The walkway, made of
recycled plastic, links Pollok
Beach with Flat Rocks and is known as the Humpback Dolphin Trail.
To make sure that we keep Seven Mile
Beach looking so amazing, starting this month; Royal Palms is getting rid of all
plastic straws,
recycling all of our
plastic cups and glass bottles!
Only 5 % of the
plastic we use is being
recycled, the rest is single - use
plastic such as food wrappers, straws,... Continue reading Bali's biggest
beach clean up 2018
The company is based in Martha's Vineyard, MA, but it sources its ocean
plastic from Haiti, a beautiful Caribbean island that struggles terribly with
plastic pollution, partly due to lack of adequate
recycling facilities, but also because the ocean tides relentlessly push
plastic waste from the rest of the world onto its
beaches.
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Recycled Materials
TerraCycle's recent partnership with Proctor and Gamble to put out a fully recyclable shampoo bottle made from
beach plastic (difficult - to -
recycle for its exposure to contaminants and UV light, depreciation, and mixed material makeup) for Head and Shoulders creates a market for
recycled materials, viewing them as more sustainable, economically and environmentally, than producing additional
plastics.
The program is free and offers local
beach cleanup organizations the opportunity to
recycle collected
beach plastic for the first time.
And while you're collecting, share your
beach plastic recycling photos with us!
The scale of the
beach plastics project focuses on the goal of incorporating more post-consumer
recycled content (PCR) across other P&G brands and globally, inspiring other world entities to do the same.
Working directly with NGOs and other
beach cleanup organizations, TerraCycle sources the shipments of rigid
plastics collected through
beach cleanup efforts, capturing these materials for
recycling for the first time, at no cost to participants.