Becker first found out about TerraCycle on a Keebler cookie wrapper. Shortly afterwards, she read an article about the company in Parade Magazine, and then Becker got busy.   Now many items thought to be difficult to recycle are being collected and Becker has a lot of help.   +Save Second Base team member Sandy Wilmot and Becker's sister-in-law, Deanna Becker, coordinated efforts at schools to collect snack chip bags. Some local and area Subway and Head West restaurants are collecting bags in decorative pink boxes.   +Becker's daughter, Danielle Love, who operates Love's Hair Shack in Macon, Ill., and sells Mary Kay beauty products, recently held a "Trash Bash," encouraging anyone to bring in old mascara and lipstick containers and other skin care and makeup containers.   +Last summer, Unser and some friends and family members collected over 1,750 red Solo Cups from the Morrisonville Picnic and Homecoming. The Springfield Sliders baseball team held a similar promotion, with Unser collecting the refuse in designated boxes.   Becker and other members of her Relay For Life team, Save Second Base, have signed up for a number of other collection items, or "brigades," including dairy tubs (cottage and cream cheese and yogurt and margarine containers), cheese packaging (single slice and string cheese wrappers), energy bar wrappers, ink jet cartridges and cell phones.

Anyone who packs a bagged lunch for a school-aged child knows that the Ziploc sandwich bag is for much more than just sandwiches. A regular packed lunch can have many, many Ziplocs, holding items such as sandwich, chips, carrot sticks, strawberries, and cookies. After lunch, all of these bags just end up in the trash. TerraCycle to the rescue!