A few months back I made a couple of posts about recycling Tetra Pak containers. Since these posts I've noticed an increased interest in recycling Tetra Pak and the good news is that the people at Tetra Pak have doubled their efforts to allow people to recycle the containers.
First off they have re-launched their Tetra Pak recycling web site with a nice new design (interesting video on the front page), but most importantly they have added a section where you can check to see if your local council have a collection scheme, which is very useful.
They have also got together with ACE (Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment) to offer
cost neutral bring bank solution to all local authorities that are not yet collecting cartons
Which should mean that local councils now have no excuses when they are asked to provide people with Tetra Pak recycling facilities.
All in all this is a great push forward from Tetra Pak and ACE in taking responsibility for making sure their products don't end up in land fill sites. I think the next move they could make would be more public advertising of the fact the facilities are available. At current the only way a lot of people will find out this information is if they actually go looking for it.
So check out the Tetra Pak recycling web site today to find out where you can recycle in your area.
Source [Tetra Pak Recycling , ACE UK]
3 comments:
I really enjoy reading your blog, it always has great insight. But I am very frustrated with the fact that so few people are talking about presidential candidates and their thoughts on global warming. Now that it is down to just a few candidates I would think that this would be a bigger issue.
Live Earth just picked up this topic and put out an article ( http://www.liveearth.org/news.php ) live earth is also asking why the presidential candidates are not being solicited for their stance on the issue of the climate change. I just saw a poll on www.EarthLab.com that says people care a lot about what their next leader thinks of global warming. Does anyone know of another poll or other results about this subject?
Here is the page where I saw the EarthLab poll: http://www.earthlab.com/life.aspx. This is a pretty legit website; they are endorsed by Al Gore and the alliance for climate protection and they have a carbon footprint calculator. Does anyone have a strong opinion about this like I do? No matter what your political affiliation is or who you vote for this is an important issue for our environment, our economy and for homeland security.
Hey just stopping by to get my dose of green info. Always good stuff here! I am trying to compile a list of stuff I can do to reduce my carbon emissions. MTV had a commercial about it, and got me interested. I have been to www.earthlab.com and they have a ton of tips but I was mostly impressed by their page where they have their users send in tips: http://www.earthlab.com/life/tips.aspx Does anyone else know of other data bases that I can find these types of small things that lower my emissions? EPA or WWF maybe?
Thanks for all your info and drop me a link if you guys see anything worth my time.
I'm sorry but I don't buy into this Tetrapak recycling. I don't believe that either the manufacturing or the recycling processes are particularly environmentally friendly, and when you consider that a lot of liquid consumables are sold in cardboard cartons which are easily recyclable, you can see that this Tetrapak recycling is just a ploy to stay in business by appearing to be green. I would rather food producers just switched to cardboard cartons; it would be a lot greener!
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