Helping Ninjas just launched our initiative Zero Waste, an effort to reduce waste sent to landfills and educate children on the importance of teaching our youth how to help the planet.
March 1st through May 1st, Helping Ninjas is asking all youth to participate by collecting at home hard to recycle waste streams as well as strive to make zero-waste choices each day. See more details of how to participate below.
Go Zero Waste Today
To sign up for the Helping Ninjas Zero Waste initiative please fill out the form below.
How to Go Zero Waste
Zero waste is a set of practices that aims to reduce waste by reusing, recycling, and composting. The goal is to keep waste out of landfills and the environment.
How It Works
Use reusable bags and containers
Buy products that are reusable or come in reusable packaging, Composting food scraps, and Using reusable menstrual products. Buy fewer things, buy in bulk, and buy reusable products
Repair, repurpose, and reuse items
Recycle waste through composting, anaerobic digestion, or animal feed
Design products and processes to avoid waste
Conserve resources like energy and natural materials
Plant something; reduce carbon pollution by reducing methane emissions and adding carbon to soil
Save money: Buying fewer things and reusing items can save money
How Does it Work?
What makes something locally recyclable depends on whether your local recycling company can make a profit recycling it. If the cost of collecting and processing the waste is lower than the value of the resulting raw material, it will likely be locally recyclable. If the costs are higher, then it likely won’t be.
The good news is that most trash can technically be recycled. That’s where Terry Cycle comes in.
Helping Ninjas is using Terra Cycle Zero Waste Boxes to help our ninjas find a solution and help to solve the problem of waste.
TerraCycle can recycle the hard-to-recycle because they work with brands, retailers, and other stakeholders who fund the recycling process.
After we recycle the waste into raw material, it’s sold to manufacturing companies who produce the end product and complete the recycling journey. These end products may include outdoor furniture and decking, plastic shipping pallets, watering cans, storage containers and bins, tubes for construction applications, flooring tiles, playground surface covers, athletic fields, and more!
Helping Ninjas youth are collecting waste to fill Zero Waste boxes to ship to Terra Cycle so that they can save it from going to the landfills!
Learn more about how TerraCycle is working to eliminate the idea of waste.
Did you know?
There are more than 2,600 MSW landfills in the United States and more projected for coming years. This map provides a snapshot of the operational project and candidate landfill counts by state. According to the EPA, the United States generated approximately 292.4 million tons of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in 2024, which translates to roughly 4.9 pounds of trash per person per day.
Per capita waste: 4.9 pounds per person per day
Total waste: 292.4 million tons of waste
As of September 2024, this table shows the counts of operational projects, candidate landfills and all landfills by state, as contained in the LMOP Database.
