Attendees of last week’s meeting also learned of several opportunities to support the Toltec Elementary School District in raising funds for the schools. Terracycle Recycling–Those who drink Capri Sun juice can help the school by recycling the pouches. Simply remove straws, cut a hole in the bottom of the pouch, rinse it out, then let it dry and send it in with your child.

Trash. We all make it and someone has to clean it up. One local school club has made it a mission to not just clean up the trash, but to recycle all of it — for the entire school. Our hats are off to the members of the Rockin’ Recycling Club at St. Andrew School in Waynesboro. The club has distributed recycling bins to all the classes in the school, collecting the recyclable items at the end of each week. The club now participates in the Terracycle program, which also recycles juice pouches, baggies and chip and cookie bags. Through the program, the school receives points that can be used for more recycling items, rewards for the school or other activities.

The first waste I used to create a product was worm poop (which is a great organic fertilizer), and when I was desperate for an affordable way to package my fertilizer, I turned to used soda bottles and realized just how much trash was out there and how much potential there was in this trash.  My whole way of thinking has shifted. The way I viewed waste, packaging, products, consumerism everything had changed. I wanted to help people to this same realization and that was why I originally started the school recycling fundraiser aspect of TerraCycle. I’d like to avoid any clichés here about “going for it” and just pressing on by “thinking outside the box,” so instead I’m going to zero in on something else.  It is very important to teach younger generations to challenge convention and to rethink the way the view the world and how they interact with the product they purchase and consume.

Projetado pela agência, o robô de mais de 14m de altura foi construído com placas feitas com aproximadamente 1 milhão de embalagens de refresco em pó. O recorde foi conferido pelo “Guinness World Records” em uma grande festa aberta ao público que no sábado passado, dia 10, no Parque do Carmo, zona leste de São Paulo.

On Friday, 28 Snellvillians between ages 16-60 boarded a bus at 6:15 AM to hear Tom Szaky speak. As INC Magazine’s #1 CEO under the age of 30, they wanted to learn as much as they can about ways to parlay his kind of clever resourcefulness into their city center. The 28 Snellvillians who attended are: * Seven small business leaders fighting tooth and nail for their success in the recession’s midst * Two teachers from South Gwinnett High who teach marketing and economics to students whose parents are striving for success against the forces of the recession’s toil * 16 students from South Gwinnett’s Entrepreneurship class and the DECA Club, who are committed to the free enterprise system and to opening small businesses after they achieve their educational goals * Snellville’s Mayor, Jerry Oberholtzer, and city council members who have a plan for this new city center and are looking for retail and commercial businesses to make it come to fruition * Economic Development manager, Eric Van Otteren, who knows that the value for creating community begins in the hearts and minds of Snellville’s people Mayor Jerry Oberholtzer stated, ”We are not a city to sit on its laurels and wait for progress to come our way. We know that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. We are getting prepared and we are actively looking for opportunities. We believe that if Snellville offers entrepreneurial strategies for its residents – whether they are 16 or 60, we can create a place where community and commerce thrive.”

Em pouco mais de 1 ano e 5 meses de operação no Brasil, a Terracycle Brasil já possui uma rede de 1.000.000.000 pessoas coletando residuos pós-consumo, mais de 20.400.000 embalagens foram desviadas de lixões e aterros sanitários , transformadas em produtos e vendidas em varejistas como o Walmart.

Much remains to be done reduce our generation of e-waste.  TerraCycle is one company taking steps in the right direction.  The New Jersey-based firm, partnering with Logitech, has launched the Keyboard and Mouse Brigade.  The program allows users to box up and send TerraCycle unwanted unwanted keyboards and computer mice.  TerraCycle, in turn, promises to churn the discarded equipment into new products.  Customers need to only collect about 20 pieces of equipment per box and TerraCycle offers free shipping via UPS.  In turn, senders can either collect points to redeem as charitable gifts or have donated to the non-profit of their choice–and they can suggest new uses for the waste that TerraCycle collects.

Cada año millones de paquetes de bebidas en polvo son desechados sin ninguna necesidad y llegan a los basurales. Para resolver este problema, TerraCycle maneja programas nacionales de reciclado, llamados “Brigadas”, para recolectar tipos específicos de basura. TerraCycle está orgulloso de colaborar con Tang para llevar adelante la Brigada Tang para darles una segunda vida a los sobres usados de bebidas en polvo. Cada vez que disfrutes de una bebida en polvo, guardaremos el sobre y lo enviaremos,a Terra Cycle que lo convertirá en nuevos productos divertidos e innovadores. Por cada sobre de bebida en polvo enviado a TerraCycle, se realizará un pago de 10 centavos a una organización sin fines de lucro o a una escuela de la preferencia de nuestro Equipo. De esta manera aprendemos a trabajar en equipo, a cuidar el medio ambiente, a reciclar, a reducir basura y ayudamos a quien más lo necesite. ¿CONTAMOS CON TU AYUDA? Más información en www.terracycle.com.ar

TerraCycle’s Back to School recycling efforts have been underway with collection programs for Frito-Lay chip bags, Nabisco cookie wrappers, and Capri Sun and Honest Kids juice pouches. They collect these normally non-recyclable items, upcycle and recycle them, and pay their collectors for what they send in. Interested schools and individuals can sign up HERE.