GLENVIEW, Illinois, USA, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- KRAFT and POLLY-O brand String Cheese and Twists have teamed up with Six Flags to offer families value and "twisted fun" all season long. Beginning May 15th through August 31st, families can enjoy savings at Six Flags parks across the country with specially marked packages of POLLY-O and KRAFT String Cheese and Twists. Families bring a KRAFT or POLLY-O String Cheese or Twists package wrapper to a participating Six Flags park(1) to receive the discount. The discount varies by brand: POLLY-O packages are good for one Free Kids Ticket (under 10 years old) with the purchase of a general admission ticket on weekdays (up to a $34.99 value) or $15 off general admission any day. KRAFT packages are good for $15 off general admission any day. "We're thrilled to team up with Six Flags to help kids have fun this summer," said Chris Urban, brand manager for Kraft Foods. "We know families are looking for more value and it's great that Kraft and POLLY-O customers can enjoy a memorable day at Six Flags with a special price with this fun promotion." In addition to the on-pack discount for Kraft and POLLY-O customers, an integrated marketing campaign inside the parks offers consumers a chance to win prizes with a national sweepstakes. Kraft and POLLY-O will feature branding on Six Flags family-targeted "twisting" roller coasters at participating parks across the country, as well as run branded advertising across the Six Flags Media Networks, including commercials on Six Flags TV, the theme park's award-winning out-of-home television network. In addition, Six Flags and Kraft/POLLY-O are launching the "Twisted Adventure" Sweepstakes, where one lucky family at each of the participating Six Flags parks will win "twenty one-day general admission tickets to the local park of their choice." The sweepstakes will run through June 30th, 2011 and consumers may enter online at sixflags.com/twistedsweeps. "We're really excited about this partnership," said David McKillips, Senior Vice President – Corporate Alliances. "This is an innovative promotion that provides great exposure for the brands with our in-park media assets and certainly great value for moms and families with savings at our parks." Kraft Foods is also partnering with TerraCycle, the international upcycling and recycling company that turns packaging wrappers into affordable, eco-friendly products. This summer all of the KRAFT and POLLY-O packaging wrappers collected at Six Flags will be upcycled into useful products while saving waste from landfills.

  Through May 21 (next Friday) your Examiner readers can participate in The Flip Flop Replay by depositing their used flip flops in colorful collection bins found inside any Old Navy store. TerraCycle will then recycle the flip-flops into playgrounds which will be donated to communities around the country. This is the first time a nationwide retailer has initiated a large-scale effort to collect and recycle flip flops. There are several Old Navy stores in Miami and the surrounding area.

Also, a writing instrument brigade, sponsored by the Orland Park Recreation and Parks Department and TerraCycle, is recycling to benefit the village’s Open Lands program.

Now Roberts recycles and upcycles and tends a thriving compost pile, and she wrote the foreword to one of Uliano's books, which I trust you can learn more about at the author's website, www.gorgeouslygreen.com. While I'm tossing out Web addresses, here's another: www.terracycle.net, where you can make money for your school or charity by signing up to recycle things like personal care product containers, which it turns out are a scourge upon mankind.

Personal care and beauty products account for one-third of all landfill waste, spurring Garnier to up the ante of its sustainability program and partner with TerraCycle, Inc. to collect millions of pieces of packaging waste from the L’Oreal owned brand of hair care, skin care, and cosmetic lines.

Företaget Terracycle, som under en längre tid har samarbetat med Kraft Foods utomlands, tar sig nu även in på den svenska marknaden där de ska hjälpa Kraft Foods att återvinna förpackningar som idag inte kan återvinnas.

Protecting the Planet for Baby Contest: TerraCycle® and Sprout® Organic Baby Food want to know why you are “Protecting the Planet for Baby.” They are looking for the most inspiring and creative reasons to grow a healthy world for a healthy baby. Tell them in Sprout’s “Protecting the Planet for Baby” essay contest for the chance to win prizes from TerraCycle and and Sprout®. How To enter?: The Protecting the Planet for Baby contest is open to all parents who are making a positive difference for the environment and for their baby. You don’t have to be enrolled in a TerraCycle Brigade® Program. Were you moved by a trip to Yellowstone and want your baby to be able to have the same experience? Do you want your baby to be able to see a polar bear in the wild? Hope he will be able to visit a rainforest? Want her to have cleaner air to breathe? We want to hear about it!

La misión de TerraCycle es eliminar la idea de la basura. TerraCycle es una empresa que tiene dentro de su misión el compromiso con el medio ambiente y con la comunidad. Trabajamos en la recuperación de materiales difíciles de reciclar y donamos dinero por cada envase recuperado para organizaciones sin fines de lucro y escuelas que sean elegidas como beneficiarias por los Equipos de recolección participantes.

A company named Terracycle collects various and sundry kinds of waste to divert it from the landfill,  to use it in new ways, and to try and make a buck.