Karen Marietta, who leads the school's TerraCycle program, said since it began in 2011, faculty and students have recycled more than 204,000 items from plastic cereal bags and snack pouches to Elmer's glue sticks and plastic tape dispensers. "It's between the drink pouches and the granola energy bar wrappers," Marietta said. "Those are probably our biggest things." TerraCycle, an international recycling program that specializes in difficult-to-recycle packaging and products, covers the cost of shipping and pays schools a penny per piece.

7. Mail bag pouch Once a USPS mail carrier’s bag, this heavy-duty zippered pouch is just the right size to hold your life — ID, cash, kes, credit cards, change. The canvas has been distressed the honest way. Weathered graphics recall its former life (mine says “MA,” which I like), and mine also has a couple black marks, maybe from getting or over or rubbing up against the carrier’s belt... there’s no end of imagining where it’s been.

The Hain Celestial Group has announced that members of the recycling club at Pinecrest High School are among the nation’s top 10 collectors of snack bags in The Hain Celestial Group Snack Bag Brigade, a free, national recycling program created by The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. and TerraCycle. By collecting used snack bags, the Pinecrest students have helped to divert more than 20,000 used bags from landfills while earning more than $1,000 for their school or charity of choice. “Pinecrest High School continues to be one of our top collectors, collecting 20,823 snack bags in 2015 alone,” said TerraCycle publicist Colleen Duncan.

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” as the saying goes. For TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky, it was more than a saying—it was also his business plan. Founded in 2003, TerraCycle takes your garbage—everything and anything you could throw away or recycle—and transforms it into consumer products like cutting boards, reusable grocery bags, and even yard fencing.

All Saints has earned more than $150 by collecting empty applesauce pouches to recycle through a partnership with TerraCycle, Inc., which collects and re-purposes hard-to-recycle, post-consumer waste ranging from used potato chip bags to cigarette butts. The waste is collected through free, national, brand-funded platforms called “brigades,” as well as various consumer and government-funded models. All Saints Catholic School is working with TerraCycle to collect empty applesauce pouches for recycling in the GoGo squeeZ Brigade.

Candy wrappers: These go in the trash, since most wrappers are made from a nonrecyclable plastic film. Terracycle.org, however, does accept some candy wrappers as part of its various “brigades.” Schools can earn money by choosing a brigade to participate in, collecting the wrappers from students, and sending the box of wrappers to Terracycle.

Students at Cascade Ridge Elementary School are saving the environment one applesauce pouch at a time. The school is making a difference this year by recycling their lunchtime waste with TerraCycle, a leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste. Cascade Ridge students have already collected 1,257 empty applesauce pouches this year.

Students at Cascade Ridge Elementary School are saving the environment one applesauce pouch at a time. The school is making a difference this year by recycling their lunchtime waste with TerraCycle, a leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste. Cascade Ridge students have already collected 1,257 empty applesauce pouches this year.

And of course there's me, in my Capri Sun Dress, Halloween 2009!  I can't even tell you how heavy that was!  All juice pouches went to TerraCycle, and only a few safety pin stabs were mine!

Today at assembly we learned about TerraCycle with Susan Whitman!  She reminded us of all the products we use each day that can often be TerraCycled.  Did you know that juice boxes have to be thrown away in the garbage, but that juice pouches can be TerraCycled?  Ask your child what other cool TerraCycle facts he/she learned today at assembly!