Let’s face it, trick-or-treaters don’t want anything but the really sugary, bad-for-you candy, so don’t bother wracking your brain for some kind of healthy alternative.  And don’t trick the poor kids, it’s just mean.  Except for Hershey Kiss wrappers, most candy wrappers are not recyclable through traditional methods.  But there is a solution!  TerraCycle is a recycling and upcycling company that specializes in hard-to-recycle materials, including candy wrappers.  Anyone can sign up for free at http://www.terracycle.net to send in their empties through the Candy Wrapper Brigade, sponsored by Mars.  You’ll earn points to be used for charity gifts or donations and TerraCycle will use the wrappers to make new products, like portable speakers, tote bags and watering cans.  I’d say that is a sweet deal!

Ever been confused as to how some of your multimaterial beauty products, such as lipstick and mirrored compacts, should be recycled? Fret no more. With TerraCycle, a company that specializes in recycling harder-to-recycle goods, the guesswork is taken out for you. With its Personal Care and Beauty Brigade program, which runs in conjunction with Garnier, you can feel good knowing that just about any product you're uncertain of will be accepted (except hair spray cans, polish remover, and nail polish bottles). Products are then upcycled to build eco-friendly playgrounds throughout the US. To find out more, just keep reading. Even better, it's free to join the Personal Care and Beauty Brigade. For every approved item received, points are earned, which can then be applied towards charitable causes. And considering one-third of landfill waste is comprised of personal care and beauty products, it's great to know that you — along with your old mascara tubes, lip-liner pencils, and foundation bottles — are making a difference.

Green games such as LogiCity, The Climate Change Game, CEO2- Climate Business, and Plan It Green are all examples of video gaming for good. These games teach players how to manage the environment and business to effectively take care of the planet and consider how our actions affect the health of the Earth. TerraCycle’s own Trash Tycoon is taking on the recycling problem. If someone recycles in a game, and decides what to make with the trash and recyclables they collect, they can think of this off the screen when they are in their kitchen or in the school cafeteria. With Trash Tycoon, for example, when players buy Kraft Cheese food items in the game, and recycled the plastic cheese packaging in the game, the same behavior is more likely to be emulated in daily life. According to McGonigal’s article, kids who played “ ‘pro-social’ games […] are more likely to help friends, family, and neighbors in real-life for a full week after playing the game. Positive behavior in a game can translate into positive behavior in reality.

More schools are collecting candy wrappers to send to TerraCycle, a recycling company that gives donors money for charitable use. It has received 1.2 million candy wrappers so far this year, more than double its 2010 total.

•More schools are collecting candy wrappers to send to TerraCycle, a recycling company that gives donors money for charitable use. It has received 1.2 million candy wrappers so far this year, more than double its 2010 total. "At first, kids were like, 'It's just trash' … but when they saw how it added up, they caught on," says Daniele Clark, a fifth-grade science teacher at Spicer Elementary in Haltom City, Texas. She says students have collected enough wrappers to raise $842 so far — enough to send eight kids to a three-day science camp.

Recycled Robot Costume Follow these instructions, provided by TerraCycle, and discover how easy it is to make a robot costume using stuff you would probably throw away.

After a night of Halloween trick-or-treating, there is a lot of candy-wrapper trash, and the wrappers usually end up in a landfill. TerraCycle is offering a recycling solution: kids and adults can collect Halloween candy wrappers and send them to the company, which makes things like tote bags, speakers and plastic lumber out of the waste. Kids also can send in toothpaste tubes and toothbrushes as part of the Colgate Oral Care Brigade. For every wrapper sent in to TerraCycle, the sender receives points, which can be converted to cash and donated to a kid's school, a local charity or a nonprofit.

Forget, for a moment, the concerns about all the candy most kids will be carting home from trick-or-treat tonight. Push aside, if you will, the worries about tooth decay, childhood obesity and those extended sugar highs. What about all those wrappers? Terracycle -- a company that hates waste and that has made dealing with it a quirky, funky mission -- will gladly take them off your kids' sticky little hands. The New Jersey company is known for its "brigades" in schools and at other nonprofits. These teams collect juice pouches, potato chip bags and more -- dozens of otherwise "trash" items -- and then send them to Terracycle, which pays two cents per item.

Costume: Try searching thrift stores to put together a costume using used clothing or props. This will reduce the amount of resources extracted and pollution created during the production and consumption of the product. Also, use recycled products such as cardboard or plastic bottles to create a neat homemade costume. You can also spread awareness with your costume by being something with an environmental theme like a Recycle Cop or a Mermaid hit by pollution. Visit Do Something to view a list of environmental Halloween Costumes. Be creative! Candy: The amount of candy received can add up and create a lot of garbage waste. Most candy wrappers cannot be thrown into your recycle bin, so they get thrown into the garbage. However, there is a company that does recycle candy wrappers called Terracycle. Terracycle works by mailing in your recyclables in a box and shipping it to them where you will receive a certain amount of credits towards purchasing Terracycle products or you can donate those credits in dollar amounts to your school or charity of choice. Terracycle pays for your shipping too so all you have to do is just collect the waste and you and the environment receives the benefits. Visit www.terracycle.net to learn more and find out how you can start recycling your candy wrappers!