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Walmart and Terracycle® Host Nation's Largest Car Seat Recycling Event

By Wal-Mart Press Release September 17, 2019

Walmart and TerraCycle  are joining forces to launch the nation’s largest car seat recycling event in nearly 4,000 Walmart stores across the country.

The  first-ever Walmart Car Seat Recycling Event will take place Sept. 16-30, in celebration of National Baby Safety Month. Customers can trade in used car seats at the Service desk in any participating Walmart  store and receive a $30 Walmart gift card* that can be used in store or online to buy items for their baby. All car seats collected in this program will be recycled through TerraCycle, and each component will be diverted from the landfill.

Safety – especially car seat safety – is a top priority  for Walmart’s Baby department, so we wanted to use our size and scale to create an event that offered unprecedented access to trade in an outgrown car seat for a gift card – perfect for using on your baby’s  next car seat. Sustainability is of equal importance to Walmart, so we’re happy to work with TerraCycle who will recycle every component of  the car seats. - Melody Richards, Vice President, Walmart Baby

“Through the Walmart Car Seat Recycling Program,  traditionally non-recyclable car seats are now nationally recyclable,”  said Tom Szaky, CEO and Founder, TerraCycle. “We are proud to work with  this forward-thinking company to offer families from coast-to-coast a  way to give their car seat, the item that has kept their little ones  safe, a second-life. Through this event, we expect to divert the plastic  equivalent of approximately 35 million water bottles from landfills.”

To learn more about this event and others happening in Walmart’s Baby department throughout September, please visit www.walmart.com/AboutBestOfBabyMonth.

TerraCycle  works with major manufacturers and retailers to recycle  “difficult-to-recycle” products and packaging that would normally be  thrown away. To learn more about TerraCycle and its innovative recycling  solutions, please visit www.terracycle.com.

*Walmart  $30 gift card offer with car seat trade in valid September 16, 2019  through September 30, 2019 at participating Walmart retail store locations. Not available at all Walmart Neighborhood Market locations. Limit of 2 gift cards per household. Booster seats not eligible for trade-in. Please see Customer Service desk for assistance with all car seat trade-ins. Gift cards subject to terms and conditions found here.


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