TERRACYCLE NEWS

ELIMINATING THE IDEA OF WASTE®

A challenge for innovators at ASU

“TerraCycle pays two cents each to a nonprofit for everything — all these weird freaky things you can recycle, like a pen when it’s out of ink, you can send anything you write with,” Lane says. “A lot of people think it sounds too good to be true, a lot of people think that, but they don’t want any money, there’s no down payment or investment, all you need is some sort of device to put your stuff in.”

I’m going on a factory tour today.

Your school can sign up for this special program and collect Capri Sun packages from students. The school then sends them in using a pre-paid envelope. In turn the school will get money for the pouches that they submit. Not only does the school make money, it keeps the pouches out of landfills and it teaches students about recyclin

Recycling Supports Green Education

Terracycle is a mail-in recycling program for items that are difficult to recycle through standard processes. Everblue investigated how the program works and decided to try it out. Here’s a recap of how things went – our own case study, if you will!