Rubbermaid partners with Terracycle to recycle food storage containers

Rubbermaid, Atlanta, announced a partnership with Trenton, New Jersey-based recycler TerraCycle to make all brands of food storage containers recyclable in the U.S. and Canada. Through this new partnership, known as the Rubbermaid Food Storage Program, Rubbermaid says it will help ensure all glass and plastic food storage containers will have a sustainable end to their life cycle.

"Our food storage products help keep food fresh to reduce waste and are made better to enable a long life of reusability. Partnering with TerraCycle allows us to create an even more sustainable product life cycle, while giving consumers an easy way to recycle their well-used containers," Ryan Hall, marketing director of Food Storage at Newell Brands, a parent company of Rubbermaid, says.

Through the Rubbermaid Food Storage Recycling Program, consumers can now send in all brands of well-used glass and plastic food storage containers to be recycled for free. To participate, interested parties can sign up on the TerraCycle program pages for the United States or Canada and mail in food storage containers using a prepaid shipping label. Once collected, the containers are cleaned and melted into hard plastic or glass that can be remolded to make new recycled products.

"Newell Brands and Rubbermaid are offering consumers a unique opportunity to divert waste from landfills and responsibly dispose of food storage containers that may initially seem unrecyclable," TerraCycle founder and CEO Tom Szaky says. "By accepting and recycling any food storage product, regardless of brand through the recycling program, Rubbermaid is expanding their commitment to sustainability and helping to build awareness that a recycling solution exists for just about everything."

The Rubbermaid Food Storage Recycling Program is open to any interested individual, school, office or community organization, the company says.