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Video from a ribbon-cutting event for the 2016 Colgate ShopRite Playground recipient in Willingboro, NJ. Click link for video.

Students at Hawthorne Park Elementary School in Willingboro, have a new playground equipment to use, thanks in part to their recycling efforts at lunch, and winning the 2016 Recycled Playground Challenge, awarded by Colgate, TerraCycle and ShopRite, on Wednesday, June 14, 2017.

Help Apshawa win a playground

WEST MILFORD — Aphsawa Elementary School is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the fourth annual Recycled Playground Challenge, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive, ShopRite and recycling pioneer TerraCycle. Aphsawa will earn one ‘Playground Credit’ for each unit - or two pounds of used, post-consumer oral care products and packaging of oral care waste, such as empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers - sent to TerraCycle for recycling. An additional credit is earned for every online vote cast for the school at www.terracycle.com/colgateshopriteplayground2017 before June 30. 

Three Ottawa County Schools Competing in Recycled Playground Challenge

HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) - Three Ottawa County schools are competing to win a new playground. In the third annual Recycled Playground Challenge courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive, Meijer and TerraCycle, the playgrounds will be made from recycled oral care waste. This year’s Recycled Playground Challenge launched April 23 in schools throughout Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Wisconsin that participate in the Colgate Oral Care Recycling Program.

Hively Avenue Preschool competing for playground made of recycled toothpaste tubes, floss

ELKHART — Hively Avenue Preschool is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the third annual Recycled Playground Challenge, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive, Meijer and TerraCycle. Hively Avenue Preschool will earn one "Playground Credit" for each unit of oral care waste, such as empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers, sent to TerraCycle for recycling. A unit is defined as 0.02 pounds of used, post-consumer oral care products and packaging. An additional credit is earned for every online vote cast for the school at www.meijer.com/colgate by June 30. The grand prize is a playground made from recycled oral care waste collected through the Colgate Oral Care Recycling Program, a free national program operated by Colgate and TerraCycle

The power of recycling - St. Katharine Drexel Catholic School enters recycling contest for a new playground.

Who knew old toothpaste tubes and floss containers could bring joy to students? The innovative recycling company TerraCycle did. This year, in conjunction with Colgate and ShopRite, TerraCycle is hosting its fourth annual Recycled Playground Challenge, during which hundreds of schools compete to win a new playground. Right now, St. Katharine Drexel Catholic School in Southampton is in the lead. The school’s only playground was recently closed due to safety reasons and much-needed repairs, so this opportunity to get a new space couldn’t have come at a better time.  

Paradise Knoll competing in playground challenge

OAK RIDGE — Paradise Knoll Green Team is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the fourth annual Recycled Playground Challenge, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive (“Colgate”), the global oral care leader; ShopRite, which has more than 260 stores in the Northeast; and recycling pioneer TerraCycle. Paradise Knoll Green Team will earn one (1) ‘Playground Credit’ for each unit ("unit" defined as 0.02 lbs of used, post-consumer oral care products and packaging) of oral care waste, such as empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers, sent to TerraCycle for recycling. An additional credit is earned for every online vote cast for the school at www.terracycle.com/colgateshopriteplayground2017 before June 30. The grand prize playground will be made from recycled oral care waste collected through the Colgate Oral Care Recycling Program, a free, national program operated by Colgate and TerraCycle.