Simply put, products will be delivered to a customer in a reusable container. The empty containers will be picked up when the product has been used. The container will then be washed, refilled and restocked.

You can find new uses for your glues bottles, recycle them or just reduce the amount you use.

Near the end of the school year, you may find yourself cleaning out the supplies closet. Before you throw away old markers, though, consider recycling them with one of these programs.

A new collaborative effort aims to improve recycling rates by improving consumer education and awareness.

Paper Mate and Sharpie teamed up with TerraCycle to offer consumers a way to recycle their used writing instruments.

Old pens, pencils and markers needn’t see the trash bin. TerraCycle collects them and turns them into useful household products.

Tom’s of Maine and TerraCycle have formed a brigade to recycle toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes, floss containers, soap packaging, deodorant containers and more.

Both are notoriously difficult to recycle, but new programs will help ease that workplace and classroom clutter.

It’s time to stop tossing leftover candy wrappers, cellophane flower wrappings and cardboard chocolate boxes. Recycle that Valentine’s Day waste!

The biggest current trend of in reuse? Upcycling, according to author K.B. Keilbach. Upcycling simply takes something, cleans it and uses it for something else.