St. Joseph School
As part of the TerraCycle program, St. Joseph School collects and gets cash for various brands, including all Mars brands candy wrappers. After Halloween (and anytime), people can send those empty wrappers to school. Collection boxes are the main foyer and cafeteria. The following brands are accepted: M&Ms, Skittles and Twix, Mars and Dove bars.
Also, before people dispose of this year's Halloween costumes, they should consider donating it for next year's Green Halloween Used Costume Sale. The
A local group of students helped an international company turn trash into treasure.
Christian Chapel Academy, 3300 S. Providence Road, participated in TerraCycle’s recycle and reuse program. TerraCycle is “in the business of reclamation and innovation when it comes to waste,” said Emily Bradford, a publicist for the company. TerraCycle uses waste to make products such as handbags and computer speakers. For each piece of reused waste, two cents are donated to a charity or school.
P.S. 105 is one of the top schools when it comes to collecting drink pouches for recycling.
As part of the “Drink Pouch Brigade” program, the makers of Capri Sun and recycler TerraCycle have collected 50 million drink pouches nationwide. The squishy juicy-drink holders are recycled and made into new materials for eco-friendly products.
Teachers and students at Green Acres Elementary used to see a lot of used Capri Sun drink pouches get thrown awayWhen they signed up to send them to a company called TerraCycle, the school began earning two cents for every one of those pouches and became part of a nationwide effort that just reached an impressive milestone of keeping 50 million pouches out of landfills.
Students at Barkers Point Elementary School in Fredericton are helping turn trash into treasures.
Other things such as juice pouches and potato chip packages are collected and sent to Terracycle, a company which promotes a way to help “outsmart waste.”
Items from Terracycle include fence partitions made from “up-cycled” drink pouches, insulated coolers made from candy wrappers, and recycling bins made from recycled plastics. Backpacks and shower curtains also are made from the recycled trash the school kids are sending in. These things can be found at stores including Target, Wal-Mart and Home Depot, said Galvan.
Lovell J. Honiss School's Honiss Environmental Club in Dumont and the Berkley Street School in New Milford are participating in the TerraCycle Brigades, a trash-to-cash collection contest, sponsored by Walmart and TerraCycle, that will reward the top-collecting New Jersey public schools with $125,000 in grants.
Lovell J. Holniss School's Honiss Environmental Club in Dumont and the Berkley Street School in New Milford ar participating in the TerraCycle Brigades, a trash-to-cash collection contest, sponsored by Walmart and TerrraCycle, that will reward the top-collecting New Jersey public schools with $125,000 in grants.
