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Preserve Recycles No. 5 plastics at Whole Foods

February 3, 2009 By: Anna4 Comments

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Recently I wrote about Preserve’s agreement with Clorox to  collect and re-use the Brita filters.  Preserve manufactures household products out of recycled plastics such as toothbrushes, razors, plates, and BPA free kitchen products.  In addition to accepting, Brita filters, they are also accepting other #5  plastics as well such as yogurt cups through their Gimme 5 program.

Ordinarily, most counties do not accept #5 plastic for recycling. This includes yogurt cups, hummus containers, and other food containers.   With Preserve’s Gimme 5 program, you can drop off your #5’s, Brita filters, and Preserve products at a participating Whole Foods or The Park Slope Food Coop.

Not near a participating Whole Foods?  Then you can mail your #5’s and Brita filters to Preserve.  All Preserve products can be sent back to the company for a second life via a postage paid envelope.  See instructions on how to send these products back to Preserve.

However, if you want to make some money for your school or religious organization, check out Terracycle’s program.  They  will pay your school for certain yogurt cups like stonyfield yogurt  for re-use . You will still have to drop off your yogurt lids at Whole Foods for recycling.

In either event, there is no longer a reason to throw your #5 plastic in the garbage again. While you are at Whole Foods picking up some organic fruit, and pitch a little lid or two while you are there.

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Comments

  1. 1

    Walter Scott says

    February 21, 2009 at 9:42 am

    Great blog, I really liked this post. I love to garden, especially in my greenhouse! I will be back and have bookmarked your site, thanks.

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    Garden Master Wayne says

    May 6, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    I am glad to see that somebody finally is accepting plastics #5, I have been trying to recycle mine for a while now. Great post!

    Thanks,
    Wayne

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  3. 3

    Stewart Segura says

    May 19, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    Wow, I have been trying to get my plastics #5 recycled for some time now, thankfully now I know how to! Where did you find this information, because I have a bunch of different materials that I would like to find out where I could recycle them at.

    Thanks for the great info, I agree with wayne that it’s great too see people actually caring about our world!

    – Stew

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