Good morning.
Has anybody in the U.K. heard of the Terracycle recycling scheme. They have been working with Marigold Gloves to recycle used gloves for a couple of years now. More details on it here: https://www.terracycle.com/en-GB/brigades/marigold-uk
It seems that you can set up your own glove recycling centre from home or work and encourage people to give you their used gloves to avoid them going to landfill. I think it’s a great idea, has anybody on here heard about it?
There may be similar schemes in other countries.
Marigolds Gloves Recycling Scheme - Terracycle
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Re: Marigolds Gloves Recycling Scheme - Terracycle
Terracycle has only recently made it free for end users to actually recycle gloves. It used to be some ridiculous fee for them to send you a cardboard box to put them in and return immediately (I forget how much but it was at least £30). Since they've worked on this side of the programme, it makes a little more sense as anyone can nominate their home/office/business as a drop-off point for the local area... but this assumes other people already know about it. Most places on the map are people's homes rather than shops which have partnered up to do it, so there's no incentive for anyone to actually use the service if you have to go out of your way to a residential area in the middle of nowhere to drop off some used gloves to some random person's house. It just makes no sense.
Also, you can't return different brands to different programmes, even though they all go to the same place. So if you have a Marigold drop-off point, you can't drop off your Spontex gloves at the same place; you have to go to another drop-off point specifically for Spontex. It's such a rubbish business and if it carries on being the way it is now, it's going to be just as environmentally detrimental due to all the additional emissions caused by people going out of their way to drop off what may only amount to a pair or two. The end user who 'recycles' them is reimbursed indirectly per kilo of gloves they drop off whereby Terracycle will then donate money on your behalf to a charity or a school. It's something like 50p for every kilogram of gloves, so that's 3-4 full boxes of typical 100x disposable gloves or at least 12 pairs of household rubber gloves.
Basically it's shit in my opinion.
Also, you can't return different brands to different programmes, even though they all go to the same place. So if you have a Marigold drop-off point, you can't drop off your Spontex gloves at the same place; you have to go to another drop-off point specifically for Spontex. It's such a rubbish business and if it carries on being the way it is now, it's going to be just as environmentally detrimental due to all the additional emissions caused by people going out of their way to drop off what may only amount to a pair or two. The end user who 'recycles' them is reimbursed indirectly per kilo of gloves they drop off whereby Terracycle will then donate money on your behalf to a charity or a school. It's something like 50p for every kilogram of gloves, so that's 3-4 full boxes of typical 100x disposable gloves or at least 12 pairs of household rubber gloves.
Basically it's shit in my opinion.
