Hickory Church of Christ is the national winner of cash and prizes in a contest run by Kraft Cheese and recycling pioneer TerraCycle. The Kraft Barbecue Bash contest gave entrants a chance to win by recycling the most used cheese wrappers June 1-July 31.
Hickory Church of Christ is the national winner of cash and prizes in a contest run by Kraft Cheese and recycling pioneer TerraCycle. The Kraft Barbecue Bash contest gave entrants a chance to win by recycling the most used cheese wrappers June 1-July 31. Hickory Church of Christ sent in 9,000 wrappers as part of The Cheese Packaging Brigade, TerraCycle’s nationwide collection program to keep cheese wrappers from going to landfills while earning money for charity at the same time.
Hickory Church of Christ is the national winner of cash and prizes in a contest run by Kraft Cheese and recycling pioneer TerraCycle. The Kraft Barbecue Bash contest gave entrants a chance to win by recycling the most used cheese wrappers June 1-July 31. Hickory Church of Christ sent in 9,000 wrappers as part of The Cheese Packaging Brigade, TerraCycle’s nationwide collection program to keep cheese wrappers from going to landfills while earning money for charity at the same time.
Denver resident helps nonprofit recycle non-recyclable items
Caroline Batorowicz-Vierow says recycling is near and dear to her heart, so it’s no surprise she wanted to expand the Urban Farm at Stapleton’s process when she began volunteering.
Batorowicz-Vierow introduced the farm to
TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based collection company that has recycling programs for non-recycling products.
Items can be collected and shipped to TerraCycle at no cost. Each person or organization sending in items is awarded points for each piece sent. Those points can be turned into cash for nonprofits.
“It was just a way to divert garbage from the landfill and at the same time receive money for a nonprofit,” Batorowicz-Vierow said.
Now with Batorowicz-Vierow’s help, the
Urban Farm at Stapleton could be in line to receive $8,000 in prize money from TerraCycle and Kraft Cheese.
Urban Farms is in a contest to see who can recycle the most Kraft products by the end of July. The winner will receive a $2,500 barbecue bash thrown by Kraft and an additional $2,500 for the nonprofit. Additional prizes bring the total winnings up to approximately $8,000.
“We try and do contests, and Kraft really wanted to get involved and have a great prize,” said Lauren Taylor, TerraCycle director of U.S. public relations.
Items of interest to Urban Farms include shredded cheese and string cheese packaging, plastic from individual cheese slices and any other packaging waste from Kraft products.
The community can help The Urban Farm at Stapleton by dropping off used cheese packages at 8335 E. 22nd Ave.
Earth Day Every Day and MLK Children's Center---
Martin Luther King Children’s Center, a school district before and after school program on the campus of MLK K-8 Elementary School, collects a variety of items for recycling with TerraCycle. The Children’s Center collected drink pouches, used toothbrushes, empty toothpaste tubes, empty beauty bottles, cheese wrappers along with dairy tub containers and sends them postage paid to TerraCycle. MLK Children’s Center earns about $.02 per item.
TerraCycle then converts the collected waste into a wide variety of products and materials. TerraCycle’s purpose is to eliminate the idea of waste. Founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, then a 20-year-old Princeton University freshman, TerraCyle began by producing organic fertilizer, packaging liquid worm poop in used soda bottles.
Since then Terracycle has grown into one of the fastest growing green companies in the world. Terracycle is creating national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable waste. MLK Children’s Center is just one group of 20 million people collecting waste in over 20 countries.
TerraCycle has diverted billions of units of waste and used them to create over 1,500 different products available at major retailers ranging from Walmart to Whole Foods Market. The goal is to eliminate the idea of waste by creating collection and solution systems for anything that today must be sent to a landfill.
So far, MLK Children’s Center has sent in 18,146 drink pouches alone. Staff, students and families collect these items from their homes along with collection tubs in the school cafeteria at lunchtime. It’s a great way we celebrate Earth Day everyday! Good for the environment, community and especially the children.
Here are some accolades from the students:
“Terracycle is cool because we help the environment by recycling our trash.” — Leiomi Gastinell, sixth grader
“It’s so easy to save and bring in the items.” — Alyson Eystad, fourth grader
“It’s a good way to help the environment and the children’s center without doing anything hard or extreme.” — Elise Ledesma, sixth grader
Did you know you could be raking in the pennies while doing something that’s good for the environment: recycling?
It all started when I bought five packages of Capri Suns at Kroger to fulfill part of a rebate I was working on. On the back of the package was information about
Terracycle, a company that has kept over 1.2 billion pieces of trash out of landfills while fashioning super cool backpacks, pencil cases, tote bags, trash cans, even cork boards! Even more amazing to me was that they would donate $ .02 per pouch collected, to the school or charity of my choice!
Tennyson Elementary School is feeling green.
Through the TerraCycle program, students and faculty at Tennyson have been cutting down waste by focusing on recycling
Theresa Underhill and Alyssa Bruner are Green Team leaders for the project.
Three fifth grade students also make up the Green Team — Lyla Schmitt, Warren Koss and Josh Grosvenor.
McLoughlin Elementary is starting a recycling program through a company called TerraCycle. With this program McLoughlin students can opt to recycle several different types of household materials with a goal of keeping these items out of the landfill and to raise money for the school.
TerraCycle is going to turn your trash into KME's cash! These are all the items we are collecting.
Building awareness about environmental concerns is one thing. Getting people to actually change their behaviors and become better stewards of the environment themselves is quite another, and much more difficult to accomplish as University of Illinois students in Ming Kuo's Environmental Psychology class learned. They worked in groups to evaluate programs that promote environmental sustainability and make recommendations for how the programs could improve their effectiveness. According to Kuo, the student groups were paired with actual clients, making the project not just an assignment for a grade, but a real-world problem to solve.
