Capri Elementary is one of about 30,000 schools nationwide participating in TerraCycle's Drink Pouch Brigade program. By collecting, sorting and sending in used drink pouches, such as Capri Sun brand beverages, students across the country are cleaning up their campuses and earning money for their schools. TerraCycle, the eco-friendly company that launched Drink Pouch Brigade in 2007, pays 2 cents for every pouch delivered.

Capri Elementary is one of about 30,000 schools nationwide participating in TerraCycle's Drink Pouch Brigade program. By collecting, sorting and sending in used drink pouches, such as Capri Sun brand beverages, students across the country are cleaning up their campuses and earning money for their schools. TerraCycle, the eco-friendly company that launched Drink Pouch Brigade in 2007, pays 2 cents for every pouch delivered.

Last year students recycled over 7,000 juice pouches through TerraCycle, an international company founded in New Jersey that makes new products from these items. During Tuesday afternoon’s club meeting, kids each guessed how many empty juice pouches the school has collected so far this year. Their guesses ranged from the hundreds into the millions, but the total so far this year is 1,230 pouches.

Students at Capri Elementary School in Campbell are learning some very valuable lessons about the environment, hard work and financial opportunity, and they are discovering it all through trash.  Capri Elementary is one of about 30,000 schools nationwide participating in TerraCycle's Drink Pouch Brigade program. By collecting, sorting and sending in used drink pouches, such as Capri Sun brand beverages, students across the country are cleaning up their campuses and earning money for their schools.

WILDWOOD — Throwing away an empty Funyuns bag or an old Laffy Taffy wrapper was routine for students at Glenwood Avenue Elementary School. Not anymore. Now, teacher John Fuscellaro and his homeroom students have launched a recycling program that has students, teachers and staff collecting everything from old Ziploc bags to empty toothpaste tubes. His class then sorts them and he sends them to TerraCycle, a company that turns the materials into new products and gives small cash payments to the school in return.

All those Capri Sun juice drinks students at Walnut Heights Elementary have been drinking are making money for the school. Walnut Heights is part of TerraCycle's "Drink Pouch Brigade," a free fundraising program that pays 2 cents per unit of waste collected. TerraCycle and Capri Sun have reached a major milestone in the brigade with 50 million pouches collected and a whopping $1 million paid to schools and nonprofits across the country -- just for the schools sending TerraCycle its waste.

All those Capri Sun juice drinks students at Walnut Heights Elementary have been drinking are making money for the school. Walnut Heights is part of TerraCycle's "Drink Pouch Brigade," a free fundraising program that pays 2 cents per unit of waste collected. TerraCycle and Capri Sun have reached a major milestone in the brigade with 50 million pouches collected and a whopping $1 million paid to schools and nonprofits across the country -- just for the schools sending TerraCycle its waste.

All those Capri Sun juice drinks students at Walnut Heights Elementary have been drinking are making money for the school. Walnut Heights is part of TerraCycle's "Drink Pouch Brigade," a free fundraising program that pays 2 cents per unit of waste collected. TerraCycle and Capri Sun have reached a major milestone in the brigade with 50 million pouches collected and a whopping $1 million paid to schools and nonprofits across the country -- just for the schools sending TerraCycle its waste.

A new campaign has been launched in schools accross the country encouraging students to upcycle used writing instruments.

Terracycle upcycles consumer waste into new salable goods. They primarily harvest their raw material from schoolchildren as part of charity drives, though they are now placing recycling stations at certain Walmart stores. At the Walmart centers they pay 3 cents per piece, but only for a narrow range of product packaging; the website supports a wider range of recyclables. The spirit of the project is wonderful, but the problem is that it creates zombie advertising and branding for these undead consumer objects. Which is actually not all that surprising, as the Walmart program is sponsored by the very brands whose packaging are featured in the upcycled goods.