WOOD RIDGE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — A New Jersey first-grader is on a mission to secure a new playground for her elementary school.

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Catherine E. Doyle Elementary School in Wood-Ridge is in the running for a new playground. Richard Fallon, vice president of the Wood-Ridge Public Education Foundation, said that the school has been entered into an online contest to win a free playground from TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based company.

TerraCycle is returning its Recycled Playground Challenge – an initiative in partnership with Colgate-Palmolive and ShopRite – to help encourage oral hygiene and sustainability among school children and consumers.

Two Mount Laurel schools are among hundreds on the East Coast competing to win a playground made from recycled materials such as old toothpaste tubes and toothbrushes.

When the students at DeFranco Elementary School go outside for recess, they have no jungle gym, no swing set, no slides nor any other playground equipment to play on. This spring, they are asking for the public's vote to change that.

Woods Road School is trying to win a contest to earn a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the second annual Recycled Playground Challenge, sponsored by TerraCycle, Colgate and ShopRite supermarkets.

The Resica Elementary Parent Teacher Organization is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the second annual Recycled Playground Challenge, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive company,

East Shore Middle School is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the second annual Recycled Playground Challenge, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive, ShopRite and recycler TerraCycle.

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ – The Noor-Ul-Iman School is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste, according to a press release.