I came across a really interesting site today that gives new meaning to the word “recycling”. Recycline is a company that uses scrap plastic and cups from Stonyfield’s manufacturing facility in New Hampshire where they’re located and turns them into Preserve Toothbrushes, Tongue Cleaners and Razors. They’ll even let you print a postage-paid label so you can return these purchased items back to them so they can be recycled again into plastic lumber for park benches and decks.
If your community doesn’t recycle #5 plastics, Recycline offers the Gimme 5 Program where you can send these plastics to them so they can be recycled into new Preserve products, such as mixing bowls, cutting boards and more.
Since only #5 plastic is used for Recycline’s products, all of the items are BPA-free.To find out where you can purchase these great products, click here.
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We’ve been big fans of Preserve’s toothbrushes for years. ( I always have purple and Pete always has blue.) When working on plans for our new house, we actually considered recycled plastic lumber (hopefully from our toothbrushes???) for the decks, but ultimately chose another material.
Thank you!! We can’t recycle #5 here and it just kills me!! Half our yogurt containers, parm cheese, sour cream. I save all the containers and try to reuse, but this is fantastic!! Thank you, you made my weekend…And I’ll probably be passing on your blog post as well!
Thanks for the info about #5. Many years ago our local recyclers accepted #5, but they don’t any more.
We like our Preserve brushes very much.