Juice boxes and pouches – not in curbside, but check out the Terracycle Drink Pouch Brigade. Chip bags – again, not in curbside, but Terracycle has a Brigade for that too.

Recycling common household items just became charitable. Holy Spirit catholic school's robotics team recently got involved with the company TerraCycle. The company's primary focus is to take hard-to-recycle objects and repurpose them into new items. Right now, the students are only collecting drink pouches, which can be repurposed into other plastics.

The robotics team from Holy Spirit Catholic School invites you to participate in a program that recycles those hard-to-recycle items, such as drink pouches, and gives up to 3 cents per item to the Idaho Foodbank. There will be a citywide planning meeting Jan. 26 at 6:30 p.m. at the school, 540 N. Seventh Ave.

A fourth grade teacher at Carlstadt Public School is trying to promote recycling, help save the environment and fundraise for the school — all in one go. Maura Barrett proposed that the school join the TerraCycle trash collection program because she wanted to do something to help the environment.

Cascade Ridge Elementary School students have kept thousands of apple sauce and drink pouches out of the landfill since the school joined TerraCycle’s national recycling program. Founded in 2001, TerraCycle is an international company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging and products to repurpose the material into affordable products. Cascade Ridge participates in two of 30 programs TerraCycle offers, according to the elementary school’s Dean of Students Jennifer Sehlin.

Highland Rim School has just reached the first level of TerraCycle and Capri Sun’s Drink Pouch Brigade® milestone contest by collecting more than 10,000 drink pouches. The students have earned over $1,500 for their school by collecting the drink pouches. The Drink Pouch Brigade® is a free recycling program that rewards people for collecting and sending their waste to TerraCycle® to be recycled or upcycled. Since 2007, Drink Pouch Brigade participants have kept almost 235 million drink pouches out of landfills and raised more than $4.5 million for charity.

There are a lot of ways to raise money, but school districts are getting smarter and clever in how they go about doing it. Such is the case with students at Yake Elementary School who figured out a way to soak up the sun — Capri Suns to be more specific — while earning several hundred dollars all at the same time.

Drink up: What can you do with all of those empty juice drink pouches after the kids have sucked them dry? You can recycle them for big bucks for charity or fundraising. That's what students at Kammann school in Salinas did recently.

A local elementary school is again being heralded for its commitment to the green scene.

Students at Sanford Elementary School in Newport News have reached the first level of TerraCycle and Capri Sun's Drink Pouch Brigade recycling program by collecting more than 10,000 drink pouches, according to a statement from TerraCycle, which is a company that collects and repurposes items that are hard to recycle.