Haycock Elementary School in Falls Church is working with TerraCycle, a recycling company, to collect empty applesauce pouches for recycling in the GoGo squeeZ Brigade, according to a press release from TerraCycle. The school is among the top GoGo squeeZ collectors of 2015, having collected 2,250 this year. Since signing up for the program, Haycock students have saved a total of 2,796 pouches from ending up in local landfills.
Students of Highlands Elementary School are earning money for TerraCycling their food packaging. TerraCycle, a company which recycles odd plastic items, such as a “GoGo squeeZ” applesauce container, is using the items recycled by students and turning them into other plastic products. Highlands Elementary is one of the top collectors of GoGo squeeZ containers in 2015, collecting 2,018 this year.
Freeland students are making a difference this school year by recycling their lunchtime waste with TerraCycle. Through participation in TerraCycle’s recycling programs, schools can turn their empty food packaging into cash. Freeland Elementary School is working with TerraCycle to collect empty applesauce pouches for recycling in the GoGo squeeZ Brigade.
Students at Ogden Avenue School in La Grange are raising money for the school through the GoGo squeeZ Brigade recycling program, according to a news release from program organizer TerraCycle. Through the program, the school collects empty applesauce pouches for recycling. TerraCycle awards points based on the amount of pouches collected, and they can be redeemed as a charity gift or cash donation for the school.
Fredericksburg United Methodist Church Preschool is working with TerraCycle to collect empty applesauce pouches for recycling in the GoGo squeeZ Brigade. The school is among the top GoGo squeeZ collectors of 2015, having collected 1,360 this year. Since signing up for the program, the FUMC Preschool students have collected 4,158 pouches, earning nearly $100 for their school.
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.
Karen Marietta, who leads the school's TerraCycle program, said since it began in 2011, faculty and students have recycled more than 204,000 items from plastic cereal bags and snack pouches to Elmer's glue sticks and plastic tape dispensers. "It's between the drink pouches and the granola energy bar wrappers," Marietta said. "Those are probably our biggest things."
TerraCycle, an international recycling program that specializes in difficult-to-recycle packaging and products, covers the cost of shipping and pays schools a penny per piece.
All Saints has earned more than $150 by collecting empty applesauce pouches to recycle through a partnership with TerraCycle, Inc., which collects and re-purposes hard-to-recycle, post-consumer waste ranging from used potato chip bags to cigarette butts. The waste is collected through free, national, brand-funded platforms called “brigades,” as well as various consumer and government-funded models. All Saints Catholic School is working with TerraCycle to collect empty applesauce pouches for recycling in the GoGo squeeZ Brigade.
Students at Cascade Ridge Elementary School are saving the environment one applesauce pouch at a time. The school is making a difference this year by recycling their lunchtime waste with TerraCycle, a leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste. Cascade Ridge students have already collected 1,257 empty applesauce pouches this year.
Students at Cascade Ridge Elementary School are saving the environment one applesauce pouch at a time. The school is making a difference this year by recycling their lunchtime waste with TerraCycle, a leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste. Cascade Ridge students have already collected 1,257 empty applesauce pouches this year.
