An item that Iroquois Middle School students packed in their lunches and properly disposed of last school year earned the school almost $2,000. Iroquois Middle School students earned money for their school by recycling Capri Sun drink pouches used at home or in the school cafeteria. TerraCycle, a Trenton, N.J.-based recycling company, recently announced that Iroquois students reached the second level of TerraCycle and Capri Sun’s Drink Pouch Brigade Milestone Contest by collecting over 18,000 drink pouches. The students have earned approximately $2,000 for their school by recycling the Capri Sun drink pouches.

For the past 18 months, some elementary school students in Massena have guzzled down thousands of Capri Sun drink pouches and raised over $800 for their school in the process. Moving past the 18,000 mark pushes the group into level two of the recycling contest. The school joined TerraCycle, a private business in Trenton, N.J., that makes consumer products from pre-consumer and post-consumer waste, in February 2013.

In Kanada sammelt das Recycling-Unternehmen TerraCycle Zigarettenstummel. Die gesammelten Zigarettenabfälle werden zu Kunststoff-Pellets verarbeitet und anschließend in der Produktion von Industriegütern wie Paletten eingesetzt.

Das Recycling von Zigarettenstummeln ist in Deutschland nun flächendeckend möglich. Dank einer nationalen Umweltinitiative des Recycling-Unternehmens TerraCycle kann der Zigarettenabfall zu 100 Prozent recycelt werden. Während Papier sowie Tabak kompostiert werden, dienen die Filter der Erzeugung von anderen Plastikprodukten. An diesem kostenlosen Programm teilnehmen können Vereine, Diskotheken, Restaurants, Hotels, Schwimmbäder und alle, die sich für die Umwelt einsetzen wollen.  

Lake Carolina students earn money and prizes for their school by collecting and recycling the drink pouches they use at home and in the lunchroom. Lake Carolina students have just reached the second level of TerraCycle and Capri Sun’s Drink Pouch Brigade® milestone contest by collecting more than 18,000 drink pouches. The students have earned almost $3,700 for their school by collecting the drink pouches.

The Prize Pack Includes:

• 3 Star Wars Workbooks of Choice from Workman Publishing {$27}
• 2 Tops and 1 Bottom of Choice from French Toast {$30}
• TerraCycle Clif Kids Backpack {$17}
• 4 Rolls of Character Duck Tape – Random Selection {$24}

Dagens definisjon av materialgjenvinning blir av de fleste begrenset til flasker, glass, papir og plastemballasje. Miljøvirksomheten TerraCycle ønsker å bevise at mulighetene er mye større, og har nå samlet inn og gjenvunnet over 600 000 varmdrikkskapsler som tidligere ble definert som "ikke-resirkulerbare".

Albe Zakes Global VP of Media, and Dan Harris - Director of Zero Waste Box Sales were featured on The Weather Channel segment "AMHQ" regarding the new TerraCycle Show "Human Resources"

One local school's recycling efforts has placed them among the top recyclers in the state. Instead of pitching plastic lunch kits into garbage cans, Robinson Elementary school has collected them as part of the Lunch Kit Brigade program by TerraCycle and Lunchables Lunch Combinations.

Say good-bye to juice boxes, water bottles, and canned drinks in your kids lunches.  If you DO happen to get any of those drinks made with drink pouches, have your kids bring the pouches home so you can participate in the TerraCycle, Capri Sun™ and Honest Kids™ Brigade!