Recycle on the Rock

06/10/2023

We’re setup .institute for a World Oceans Day celebration! The event runs until 3:00pm and features a wide variety of great exhibitors with lots of fun games and activities for all 🌊♻️
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You may spot a new addition to our table 👀 The dark blue “brick” is our first attempt at creating plastic lumber from recycled plastics! More on this soon 🙂

04/22/2023

🌎Happy Earth Day🌎
Since pausing our bottle cap collection program last July, I’ve been working hard behind the scenes to find ways of making the Recycle on the Rock project sustainable long-term.
I still have some details to sort out, but I have exciting news about our future plans that I will be sharing sometime in the next couple of weeks. 🙂
I’d like to once again thank all of our collection partners, our VCC’s & of course, everyone who has been saving their caps.

12/02/2022

Couple of custom orders for the holidays♻️
If you’re wanting one of our products in a specific colour, give me a shout!

07/07/2022

Last day to get your caps in! 🙂

♻️Together, we can tackle Newfoundland waste plastics♻️ 30 Seco… Trevor Bessette needs your support for Keep Newfoundland Waste Plastics Out Of Our Ocean

07/04/2022

Only 3 more days to get your caps in :) I'm excited for the next step of the Recycle on the Rock project!

Please share this post to help me spread the word. The more caps we can get dropped off before the pause, the better!

♻️Together, we can tackle Newfoundland waste plastics♻️ 30 Seco… Trevor Bessette needs your support for Keep Newfoundland Waste Plastics Out Of Our Ocean

06/30/2022

Important Announcement!

♻️Together, we can tackle Newfoundland waste plastics♻️ 30 Seco… Trevor Bessette needs your support for Keep Newfoundland Waste Plastics Out Of Our Ocean

04/24/2022

We’ve got another new colour in our keychains! We love how this grey colour turned out. If you look closely you can see some pinks, blues, purples and even some green!
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04/16/2022

First time testing out black products and they turned out great! Next I’ll be adding in some grey to test out a marbled effect 🙂
Come see the new “colour” in person today Swing into Spring market!

03/24/2022

We will not be at the Farmer’s Market this Saturday, but our bin will be there as always so you can still drop off those plastic caps! If you’re looking for our products you can now shop online via our Facebook, Instagram and online store! We’ll see you again on Saturday April 2nd!
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03/19/2022

Online store update! You can now purchase all of our Recycle on the Rock Products online! Visit our website (link in bio) to browse our recycled plastic products ♻️
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Spotted a product colour at a market, but can’t find it on our website? Send us a message! Each one of our products is 100% unique and we never know exactly what each product will look like, especially once we start mixing colours! We have most of our standard colours posted online, but we usually have some unique colours with us at markets if you can’t find what you’re looking for.
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11/13/2021

Look at all of these caps!! The lovely folks and volunteer students at MUN Hope have been doing a terrific job collecting and sorting plastic caps for the Recycle on the Rock project. These caps were cleaned & sorted into colours already which means they can go straight into the shredder, how amazing! Thank you MunHope :)

10/01/2021

Exciting news for the the New-Wes-Valley Area! 🌟

Back in April, I received an email from Cindy Gillingham about her desire to bring the Recycle on the Rock project to her neck of the woods. She lives in the New-Wes-Valley area. Her passion for the environment was evident and so I asked her if she would be interested in becoming Recycle on the Rock’s second official Volunteer Collection Coordinator. She accepted the challenge and began searching for potential community collection partners for the area. It took me a while to build and deliver the required collection bins but they have all been put to good use!🙂

We’re excited to announce 5 new community collection points for that part of the island!♻️ The new partners are: Carter's Dairy/Bakery/Deli Gas Bar (Pound Cove), Saunders General Store Ltd. (Harris Point), Angie's Family Restaurant (Victoria Cove), The Textile Exchange (Templeman) & the previously mentioned New-Wes-Valley Recycling Green Depot (Valleyfield). 🎉 Thank you to our new partners, we’re excited to have you on-board!

A big thank you to VCC (Volunteer Collection Coordinator) Cindy Gillingham for leading the charge for the project in her area & for volunteering to transport the caps for many of the collection partners mentioned above. Her efforts have enabled her community to keep plastic caps out of our landfills & oceans.❤️

These locations will be accepting plastic bottle caps, bread tags & take-away drink lids. For the caps, the guideline is: If the cap is plastic and it screws on/off, then it’s accepted! Please remember to wash your caps before placing them in the collection bins.

09/24/2021

🚨New Collection Bin Alert🚨

♻️Clarenville Green Depot♻️

A big thank you to the Clarenville Green Depot for coming on board the Recycle on the Rock project on short notice! We showed up with a bin & they were happy to become a collection partner 🌟 The bin is available whenever the depot is open. As a note, due to limited space in many of the depots, it’s important to have your plastic bottle caps removed from your bottles & placed in a separate bag prior to arriving at the depots 🙂

09/14/2021

🚨New Collection Bin Alert🚨

♻️Gambo Green Depot♻️

Thank you to the owner of the Gambo Green Depot for becoming an official Recycle on the Rock partner! The bright blue bin will be available whenever the depot is open 🙂

Please remember to have your rinsed plastic caps in a separate bag from your main recyclables.

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09/04/2021

Experimenting with colours ♻️ We’re at the Farmers’ Market today with these colourful new soap dishes 🙂

09/03/2021

Washing the products before finishing them up 🧼 Check out our market post tomorrow to see the bright new colours

08/29/2021

🚨New Collection Bin Alert🚨

♻️Valleyfield Green Depot♻️

The Valleyfield Green Depot is now a Recycle on the Rock community collection partner 🙂 The bin is available whenever the depot is open.

Please remember to have your rinsed plastic caps in a separate bag from your main recyclables & to drop the caps into one of our bright blue collection bins 🙂

Thank you to the owner of the Valleyfield Green Depot for participating in the Recycle on the Rock project 🎉

08/27/2021

🚨New Collection Bin Alert🚨

♻️Botwood Green Depot♻️

Next up we have a new bin for Central! The Botwood Green Depot is now a Recycle on the Rock community collection partner 🙂 The bin is available whenever the depot is open.

Please remember to have your rinsed plastic caps in a separate bag from your main recyclables & to drop the caps into one of our bright blue collection bins 🙂

Thank you to the owner of the Botwood Green Depot for participating in the Recycle on the Rock project 🎉