HELPING HANDS The school is participating in the Drink Pouch Brigade, a free recycling program for individuals or groups from Capri Sun and TerraCycle. Through this program, students are cleaning up the environment and earning money for their school. By simply collecting drink pouches from the lunchroom or classroom, Riverview Charter School students can win playgrounds, park benches and recycling bins for their school or community. Read more here: http://www.islandpacket.com/2014/05/09/3102719/class-notes-for-may-12.html?sp=/99/257/266/1397/#storylink=cpy

 

Story by Melissa Buckley  GUIDON staff melissa.k.buckley2.civ@mail.mil Most people know you can recycle things like plastic bottles and aluminum cans on post, but did you know your Family’s random trash, like makeup containers and juice pouches, could be benefiting the Armed Services YMCA — an organization that benefits Families connected to Fort Leonard Wood? “The TerraCycle program brings communities together to help build a sustainable future through — upcycling, recycling and donation efforts,” said Michelle Clemens, Balfour Beatty LifeWorks coordinator. “I organize all the items collected for the TerraCycle brigades to send in to the TerraCycle Company, so that we receive credit for our organization. Each brigade is valued on a point system that in turn creates a dollar amount to donate to the organization of our choice,” she added. TerraCycle is an international upcycling and  recycling company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and repurposes the material into affordable, innovative products. Balfour Beatty coordinates the program on post. TerraCycle calls each collection program a brigade. Clemens said anyone that wants to participate in the program can drop off collected items to any of the community centers on post — Stonegate Community Center at 235 Ellis Street, Woodlands Community Center at 140 Indiana Avenue or  Piney Hills Community Center at 100 Thayer Street. “This is a program intended to get the community involved so that we can reduce waste going to landfills as well as giving back to one of our amazing organizations (connected to) Fort Leonard Wood,” Clemens said. “It is very important we get the community involved so we have enough collections to send in. Each program has a certain weight limit or quantity restriction before we can send the items in and receive credit.” According to Clemens, they are always collecting. For more information contact at her at fclemens@bbcgrp.com, 573.329.1009 or visitwww.ftlwoodfamilyhousing.com.

Do not include drink "pouches" with your bottles and cans; drink pouches can be recycled through Terracycle.

The Entenmann’s Little Bites “Recycle… Reuse… Replenish” Fully Recyclable Lunch Earth Day campaign teaches kids the importance of reducing waste while earning money for their schools by redeeming Little Bites pouches for cash and points with recycling partner TerraCycle® through the Entenmann’s Little Bites Pouch Brigade®.  

The school is participating in the Drink Pouch Brigade, a free recycling program for individuals or groups sponsored by Capri Sun and TerraCycle. To mark the milestone of almost 200 million drink pouches collected and almost $4 million given to charity since the start of the program six years ago

Companies can capitalize on kids’ recycling savvy by providing lesson plans or partnering with environmental nonprofits to engage kids, such as Capri Sun’s partnership with TerraCycle.  

Capri Sun pouches are collected at more than 77,000 locations around the country, boxed up and shipped to TerraCycle to be weighed. The company then cuts the school or organization a check based on the weight and converts the pouches into new “upcycled” products like purses, backpacks and notebooks.

The school is a participant in the Drink Pouch Brigade, a free recycling program created by Capri Sun and recycling company TerraCycle that rewards member organizations for collecting drink pouches.

Students can help the school win playgrounds, park benches and recycling bins through the Drink Pouch Brigade, a free recycling program for individuals or groups from Capri Sun and eco-pioneer TerraCycle.

The program is called the Drink Pouch Brigade and is put together by Kraft Food’s Capri Sun and the recycling company TerraCycle, which is entering its sixth year and has collected nearly 200 million pouches nationwide.