Det er Tassimo og miljøselskapet TerraCycle som arrangerte konkurransen, der miljø, gjenvinning og innsamling til veldedige formål har stått i fokus.

Randi Tuck has been getting residents involved in one of New York–based TerraCycle’s recycling programs for the past few years. Through the MOM Brands Cereal Bag Brigade, Mechanicsville Elementary School has become a drop-off location for collecting empty plastic liners from cereal boxes. Tuck will donate money that she receives from collecting the bags to the elementary school.

The ASUCD Coffee House (CoHo) continues to become more environmentally-friendly through its participation in the New Jersey-based upcycling company TerraCycle’s Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade. Through this partnership, which began in fall 2013, the CoHo collects used wrappers in the CoHo and the dining commons and sends them to TerraCycle to be recycled in exchange for money; shipping labels and costs are covered by the brigade’s sponsor, Larabar. To support this recycling program, students can add their wrappers to the collection box by the Marketplace cashiers in the CoHo.

Is your TerraCycle box for writing instrument recycling filling up? Dump it into another box, contact energy@nebraskamed.com for a free shipping label, send it in, and keep your TerraCycle box. TerraCycle upcycles or recycles the items and makes a per-item donation to Nebraska Medicine.

In New Jersey, The Rutgers University EcoComplex — known as New Jersey’s first environmental research and outreach center — houses a few sustainable business startups. A notable alumnus is TerraCycle, which now operates in 20 countries and makes $20 million per year. The company moved into the EcoComplex in 2004, and just three years later was selling its products in Walmart and Home Depot.

Students and faculty at Dixon Elementary School are in the running to win a new playground from TerraCycle. Students have been collecting Capri Sun drink pouches for over 2 years. The first school to collect 200,000 drink pouches will win an upcycled playground.

Students and faculty at Dixon Elementary School are in the running to win a new playground from TerraCycle. Students have been collecting Capri Sun drink pouches for over 2 years. The first school to collect 200,000 drink pouches will win an upcycled playground.

Students and faculty at Dixon Elementary School are in the running to win a new playground from TerraCycle. Students have been collecting Capri Sun drink pouches for over 2 years. The first school to collect 200,000 drink pouches will win an upcycled playground.

Students and faculty at Dixon Elementary School are in the running to win a new playground from TerraCycle. Students have been collecting Capri Sun drink pouches for over 2 years. The first school to collect 200,000 drink pouches will win an upcycled playground.

“Six years ago I started the Terracycle program here at Dixon and we did it to be stewards to the environment basically and teach kids the principle of recycling,” said Misty Sword, a teacher at Dixon Elementary. The Terracycle Milestone Program is a national one that might help solve a much-needed problem for students. The goal for Dixon Elementary is to collect 200,000 recycled juice pouches, and if they do they win a brand-new playground made solely from recycled materials.