As part of an ongoing effort to be environmentally responsible citizens, the students at Central Elementary School in Simsbury joined Terracycle's Juice Pouch Brigade and have collected over 8,000 juice pouches since 2008. The pouches are sent to Terracycle and they make new products from them, since they can not be recycled, and they give Central two cents for each pouch. Central has just received a check from Terracycle for $117.02, and has donated it to the Audubon Nature Institute, who through the Louisiana Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Rescue Program (LMMSTRP), are the primary responders for the state of Louisiana for the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of marine mammals and sea turtles impacted by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.