Mar
17
2011
Composting is the process of breaking down waste into a nutrient-rich topsoil. Here are a few tips on how to create your compost pile. Let's start first with a list of what to or not to include in your compost pile...
Feb
03
2011
7 Ways In 7 Days: A simple, user friendly approach to making a positive difference to your carbon footprint and impact on Earth. Go natural and bring it back to neutral!—By Claire Bevilacqua, TransWorld SURF's resident expert on environmental...
Feb
01
2011
Common Myths About Recycled Paper
MYTH: All paper is recycled now, there’s no need to ask for it.
FACT: Even at the height of its success, recycled paper only had about 10% of the printing and writing paper market and even...
Dec
29
2010
Why Recycle?
Recycling: The Big Picture
By Tom Zeller, Jr.
National Geographic Staff
Photograph by Peter Essick
1. Does it make sense to recycle?
2. What Gets Recycled in the U.S.
3. Excess Packaging
Dec
08
2010
Joining A Brigade
TerraCycle runs national programs called Brigades, each of which is for a specific waste stream (like the Drink Pouch Brigade, or the Cookie Wrapper Brigade).
Each Brigade has a certain number of open locations (anywhere from 500-30,000), and...
Our Synthetic Paper is a recycle category 5 product.
