Little Wonders Child Care Center, located in Millbury, is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the fifth annual Recycled Playground Challenge, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive (“Colgate”), Meijer and TerraCycle.
ALTO, MICH. - A new playground is coming to southeast Kent County and it's made from recycled oral care products.
Kettle Lake Elementary School, in the Caledonia Community School district, will hold a ribbon cutting at 9:15 a.m.Wednesday, Nov. 15 at their new playground. The big unveil comes as we celebrate America Recycles Day.
IXONIA -- Ixonia Elementary School is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the third annual Recycled Playground Challenge.
The school will earn one 'Playground Credit' for each unit ("unit" defined as 0.02 pounds of used, post-consumer oral care products and packaging) of oral care waste, such as empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers, sent to TerraCycle for recycling. An additional credit is earned for every online vote cast for the school at
www.meijer.com/colgate by June 30. The grand prize is...
ShopRite and Colgate-Palmolive are staging their fourth annual "Colgate & ShopRite Recycled Playground Challenge," this year offering more secondary prizes than ever before.
The contest will award a $50,000 playground made entirely of recycled oral care waste to the Northeastern school that earns the most "playground credits" from March 16 through June 30. Schools earn credits by getting their students and other constituents to vote on a promotional page within recycling company TerraCycle's website or by submitting oral care waste to the recycler (using free-shipping labels downloaded from
terracycle.com).
