Dans le cadre d’un projet d’avenir, deux classes de seconde du lycée agricole La Cazotte s’investissent plus particulièrement dans le devenir des déchets afin d’être les porte-paroles au sein de l’établissement. Ce projet sera mené jusqu’à leur année de terminale bac professionnel.

TerraCycle started in 2001 as a simple organic fertilizer company. Founder Tom Szaky, then a freshman at Princeton University, saw an opportunity to use discarded food scraps from the cafeteria to make a product that had value. He fed the leftovers to an army of worms to harvest worm compost, or Worm Poop as it became fondly known, a completely organic, ultra-effective fertilizer. With no money to buy packaging, Tom bottled the liquid fertilizer in used soda bottles collected from recycling bins, unwittingly creating the world’s first product made from AND packaged entirely in waste. The idea of using would-be waste material to make new products grew. Today, TerraCycle partners with major consumer goods manufacturers such as Kraft Foods, Frito-Lay, Mars, Colgate-Palmolive, L’Oreal, Method and many more to collect almost 50 kinds of non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle packaging, such as drink pouches, chip bags, candy wrappers, toothpaste tubes, cosmetics and household cleaner packaging. For each piece of waste sent to TerraCycle through this Brigade program, the collector earns points that can be put toward charity gifts or converted to cash and paid to any school or non-profit. The programs are completely free to join and all shipping costs are pre-paid. The collected material is upcycled or recycled into a wide range of consumer products. By using some of the millions of pieces of packaging that go to landfill every year to make innovative consumer goods, TerraCycle hopes to reduce the need to use virgin materials and show the world it is more sustainable and profitable to use waste as a raw material. Since 2007, more than 90,000 locations and 29 million people have gotten involved in the Brigade program and are helping to collect trash in homes, schools, offices and community buildings across the country. More than 2.5 billion pieces of pre- and post-consumer packaging have been collected and over $4.5 million has been donated to schools and non-profits. For more information, please visit: TerraCycle.com and TerraCycleShop.com

Story about TerraCycle and a local Brigade school ran on Teen Kids News in 40 different markets, listed below, inclduing NYC, Chicago, Dallas, San Diego, Detroit, Boston, Phoenix and Seattle.  We've uploaded one version of the piece onto Youtube for easy viewing. View TerraCycle and Teen Kids News Below!! TerraCycle on Teen Kids News

A TerraCycle estimula a formação de "brigadas de coleta” e cria, a partir de diferentes resíduos, produtos, como bolsas, guarda-chuvas, jogos americanos, porta-lápis etc. O envio, é  feito pelos Correios com selo emitido pelo próprio site da empresa (terracycle.com.br).

La campaña también ayudará a recaudar dinero para asociaciones y escuelas. BIC, el gran fabricante mundial de bolígrafos, y la compañía pionera de reciclaje TerraCycle se han asociado para poner en marcha un programa de recogida de bolígrafos en los lugares donde éstos más se utilizan: colegios, universidades y empresas.  

Lee Elementary School students turned juice pouches into pencil cases, chip bags to lunch boxes and candy wrappers into backpacks as part of a national initiative that combines fundraising and recycling. Students collected nearly 6,000 pieces of non-recyclable waste, such as bags, wrappers and bottles, and shipped them to TerraCycle, a company that makes new products from lunchroom garbage. TerraCycle turns food packaging destined for the landfill into products for home, school and the office. The company’s tote bags, trash cans, picture frames and more are made from the waste and sold at major retailers like Target, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Home Depot. Schools are paid two cents for each piece of waste, earning Lee Elementary $120. Hundreds of schools across the state participated, collecting 1,261,712 pieces of waste and earning nearly $25,000. Schools can send their lunchroom waste to TerraCycle by printing pre-paid shipping labels from the Web site. For more information, visit www.terracycle.net.

Girl Scout Troop 1126 helped reduce waste at Oak Meadow Elementary School in El Dorado Hills, all while raising money for school supplies for homeless children. The troop of fifth-grade girls recently completed a year-long Journey program exploring electricity and energy savings. The troop chose to participate in the TerraCycle program as its final project. TerraCycle helps eliminate waste by creating national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste. Troop 1126 collected juice pouches, which go to TerraCycle to be recycled into various products from tote bags and pencil cases to plastic lumber and pavers. The troop will redeem TerraCycle points, valued at one cent per point, to be used for their charitable gift supporting school supplies for homeless children. The troop members described their journey and final project as “awesome, fun, exciting, amazing and cool.” “We are really proud of what we’ve done,” said Madelyn Minami of their efforts to help clean up the environment and support children with school supplies. “We really wanted to help kids our age,” said Anna Slojkowski. As part of their final project the girls publicized their effort on campus, collect juice pouches each day following the lunch periods, weighed the pouches and packaged them up to send to TerraCycle. Troop 1126 members hope to continue this effort once they leave Oak Meadow for middle school, by handing off the project to another younger troop on the campus.

Del 1 de julio al 31 de agosto, Colgate convoca a los consumidores a tomar conciencia sobre los desechos y propone disminuir el impacto ambiental a través del reciclaje de los productos de la marca: tubos de pasta dental, cepillos de dientes, hilo dental, enjuague oral y demás envoltorios de cuidado oral, gracias a una alianza con TerraCycle. En 20 tiendas de Walmart, habra dos cajas de recolección en cada una de ellas donde se depositarán los residuos. TerraCycle se encargará de retirarlas y dar nueva vida a los materiales, reciclándolos y transformándolos en nuevos artículos. El acuerdo de Colgate y TerraCycle se enmarca en la estrategia global que la etiqueta viene realizando desde hace años y que la posiciona como referente en materia de RSE. En Estados Unidos, Brasil y México, ya existen programas de recolección junto a TerraCycle. Con esta iniciativa, Colgate se convierte en la segunda marca aliada a TerraCycle en la Argentina.