Wal-Mart TerraCycle Center Turns Hard-To-Recycle Products Into Cash

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A set of New Jersey Wal-Mart parking lots now have a way to turn consumer product waste into profits. (Well, a little pocket change, anyway.)

Terracycle has installed what they call "Store Collection Systems," a 20-foot trailer that accepts all kinds of packaging that can't be recycled in the normal blue bin outside your house.

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[Birdman372537]

08:30 AM on 11/09/2010

An old Indian once said that in a man's journey through his life, he should touch the world as lightly as he can. Renewable energy and energy conservation, in fact, resource conservation in general, is a philosophy that recognizes the fundamental truth of that statement. The citizens of our wonderful country should more widely embrace them. Unfortunately, doing that is moving on a higher plane than most of us can recognize. Fortunately, each of us is free to take our own journey.

[jsarets]

05:57 AM on 11/09/2010

Fantastic!  But what are they going to do with the container ships after they deliver goods from China?  It's my understanding that they are packed with trash on the way back.  Trash is one of our key exports.  We like to dump it in China because our landfills are mostly full and we have NIMBY issues.  If there's not enough trash because we've found more intelligent ways to process waste than dumping it in landfills, then I suppose we'll have to pack the containers full of corn.  What else do we make?

[Genders]

08:10 PM on 11/09/2010

They sell the old containers cheap, they make great storage sheds.

[truthisneeded]

07:44 PM on 11/08/2010

Great job Walmart!