#SalemMA - #ZeroWasteSalem #RepairCafe and #TerraCycle Collection

Saturday, May 16, 9am to Noon

Community Life Center
401 Bridge Street
Salem, MA

"Don’t throw away your broken item – bring it to the Repair Café! Zero Waste Salem will be hosting a Repair Café on Saturday, May 16 from 9am-12 noon at the Community Life Center at 401 Bridge Street.

Appointments are required and walk-ins will not be accepted. Pre-registration is required via link (stay tuned for updates) or email [email protected].

Repair volunteers at this event will be available to mend clothing, sew buttons, and tinker with or rewire electronics and lamps. Please keep in mind these services may change as we confirm volunteers. We hope to see you at this fun event where you can learn how to fix things and reduce your waste!

TERRACYCLE — We’re collecting FIVE TerraCycle categories of otherwise hard-to-recycle items. Please keep each TerraCycle stream separate.
** #Swiffers: All used, dried #Swiffer pads.
** #Razors: All brands of reusable and disposable razors, blades & cartridges, as well as any flexible or rigid plastic packaging they come in.
** Dental Care: Non-electric #toothbrushes, #toothpaste tubes, & #floss containers. All brands, plus toothbrush packaging.
**Brita: #Brita dispenser, Brita pitchers, Brita bottles, Brita standard filters, Brita Stream filters, Brita bottle filters, Brita filter packaging, Brita Longlast® filters, Brita Stream® pitchers.
**#BurtsBees empty product containers and packaging.

IMPORTANT CHANGE: No deodorant or mouthwash bottles accepted as of January 1, 2025. Please place mouthwash bottles (with cap on) into curbside recycling carts."

FMI:
https://greensalem.com/event/repair-cafe-terracycle-collection-8/

#SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafesMassachusetts #TerracyleCollection #Recycling #ReduceReuseRepair #FixIt

【零廢棄城市，人家做了什麼事？ —— 日本橫濱（續）】
聯合國秘書長零廢棄諮詢委員會（UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Zero Waste）選出了全球20個積極邁向「零廢棄」的城市，其中之一便是日本的橫濱，我們來看看人家做了哪些事？

昨天說到，三得利公司跟橫濱市政府、回收處理商合作，建構了一個寶特瓶的瓶到瓶回收閉鎖循環。橫濱市這次利用……呃……與老年人和身心障礙者們合作，完成了另一個針對PTP（Press-Through Packaging）藥品包裝的回收循環。

更多請見：
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/179HXydMNF/

#零廢棄 #ZeroWaste #PressThroughPackaging #藥品包裝 #混合材質 #塑膠包裝 #鋁箔 #垃圾分類 #回收 #資源回收 #社會參與 #身心障礙 #老年生活 #循環經濟 #工業循環 #廢棄物 #垃圾減量 #污染者付費 #生產者延伸責任 #聯合國 #日本 #橫濱 #第一三共ヘルスケア #TerraCycle

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/116190125968313442

Saturday, March 21st! #SalemMA - #ZeroWasteSalem

#BookSwap and #Terracycle Collection

#SalemMA - #ZeroWasteSalem Free #BookSwap and #TerraCycle Collection

"Zero Waste Salem Free Book Swap returns to the Community Life Center at 401 Bridge Street on Saturday, March 21 from 10:00am-1:00pm! Swapping isn’t necessary — you may donate, take away, or both.

We accept ONLY books, CDs, DVDs, records (all in original cases, please), plus puzzles and greeting cards. We are also accepting bags (paper, plastic, grocery, cloth) for swapping.

All items must be clean, dry, and mildew free.

TO DONATE, please drop off at the Community Life Center on Friday, March 20 from 4:00-7:00pm, or Saturday, March 21 from 9:00am-noon. Remaining items will be donated.

Please understand that our volunteers will have to sort through and trash anything except the accepted items.

Please respect volunteers’ time and health and DO NOT bring magazines, VHS, old/mildewed/outdated books, home CDs, binders, and cassette tapes.

TERRACYCLE — We’re collecting FIVE TerraCycle categories of otherwise hard-to-recycle items. Please keep each TerraCycle stream separate.
** #Swiffers: All used, dried #Swiffer pads.
** #Razors: All brands of reusable and disposable razors, blades & cartridges, as well as any flexible or rigid plastic packaging they come in.
** Dental Care: Non-electric #toothbrushes, #toothpaste tubes, & #floss containers. All brands, plus toothbrush packaging.
**Brita: #Brita dispenser, Brita pitchers, Brita bottles, Brita standard filters, Brita Stream filters, Brita bottle filters, Brita filter packaging, Brita Longlast® filters, Brita Stream® pitchers.
**#BurtsBees empty product containers and packaging.

IMPORTANT CHANGE: No deodorant or mouthwash bottles accepted as of January 1, 2025. Please place mouthwash bottles (with cap on) into curbside recycling carts."

Source:
https://greensalem.com/event/zero-waste-salem-free-book-swap-terracycle-collection/

#SolarPunkSunday #FreeBookSwap #CDSwap #DVDSwap #RecordSwap #TerracycleCollection #Recycling

#SalemMA - #RepairCafé and #TerraCycle Collection

"Don’t throw away your broken item – bring it to the Repair Café!

#SalemRecycles will be hosting a Repair Café on Saturday, November 8 from 9am-12 noon at the Community Life Center at 401 Bridge Street.

Appointments are required and walk-ins will not be accepted. Pre-registration is required via link, stay tuned for updates or email [email protected].

Repair volunteers at this event will be available to mend clothing, sew buttons, and tinker with or rewire electronics and lamps. Please keep in mind these services may change as we confirm volunteers. We hope to see you at this fun event where you can learn how to fix things and reduce your waste!

TERRACYCLE — We’re collecting FOUR TerraCycle brigades of otherwise hard-to-recycle items. Please keep each TerraCycle stream separate.

** Swiffers: All used, dried Swiffer pads.
** Razors: All brands of reusable and disposable razors, blades & cartridges, as well as any flexible or rigid plastic packaging they come in.
** Dental Care: Non-electric toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, & floss containers. All brands, plus toothbrush packaging.
**Brita: Brita dispenser, Brita pitchers, Brita bottles, Brita standard filters, Brita Stream filters, Brita bottle filters, Brita filter packaging, Brita Longlast® filters, Brita Stream® pitchers.

IMPORTANT CHANGE: No deodorant or mouthwash bottles accepted as of January 1, 2025. Please place mouthwash bottles with cap on into curbside recycling carts."

Source:
https://greensalem.com/event/repair-cafe-terracycle-collection-6/

#SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafes #GreenSalem #RepairCafesMassachusetts #RepairCafes #TerracyleDropoff #Mending #RepairReuse #RepairReuseRestore #FixIt #RightToRepair

Mashable: TerraCycle is a free recycling hack for K-cups, toothpaste tubes, and all your hard-to-recycle stuff: How it works. “TerraCycle is an alternative recycling platform that recycles post-consumer items that are considered non-recyclable by mainstream municipal-level waste management facilities. More people need to know that TerraCycle has a huge free mail-in recycling program, through […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/30/terracycle-is-a-free-recycling-hack-for-k-cups-toothpaste-tubes-and-all-your-hard-to-recycle-stuff-how-it-works-mashable/

Do you know the best way to break an evolve+ water jug filter cartridge into case & mesh so I can put the case in the regular recycling bin instead of messing with the 'Terracycle' sham?

#terracycle #scam #sham

TerraCycle
"At TerraCycle, we believe there should be no such thing as waste. We’ve been finding new solutions and new uses for our trash for over 20 years. Together, we’re keeping valuable materials out of our landfills and environment."
https://www.terracycle.com/en-GB/#@54.39586446195522:-2.83447377734376zoom:5

#Waste #Recycling #TerraCycle #ZeroWaste #SolarPunkSunday #ReduceRepairReuseRecycle

We have our poster for our seed swap

https://transitiontelford.wordpress.com/seedy-saturday-seed-swap/
Come and join us with Telford Repair Cafe and Terracycle Telford

#repaircafe #terracycle #seedswap #seedysaturday #transitiontogether