With the American observance of the traditional Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo taking on a life of its own, here are tips for giving new life to the remnants of your festivities. Tortilla chip bag: These aren’t accepted in your blue bin, however you can join or start a local “brigade” of collectors for many hard-to-recycle items including candy wrappers and earn cash for your school or nonprofit by signing up at www.terracycle.net.

Fans of minor league baseball and Kraft Singles American cheese can double their fun this summer. The Tuesday Night Tickets promotion delivers one free ticket with the purchase of a ticket and the redemption of any Kraft Singles package wrapper at the box office. The plastic wrappers are collected by TerraCycle and made into consumer products. This is the third season of the promotion by Kraft Foods, Northfield, Ill. It said that in 2010, wrapper redemption increased 43% compared to 2009. The promotion runs through Sept. 6.

Spring is here and summer is right around the corner. It's time to 
 break out the season's favorite fashion combo, shorts and flip flops. 
 That grimy pair from last year won't cut it. Before you upgrade, drop 
 your old pair (or three) in a designated bin outside your nearest Old 
 Navy and put them to good use. The deadline is May 21st.

Although Earth Day has passed until next year, Dallas schools continue to show their support for the health of the environment, community and their student’s education through working with TerraCycle, Inc., the world’s leader in the collection and reuse of non-recyclable post-consumer waste. TerraCycle re-purposes waste like chip bags, pens and toothbrushes into new eco-friendly materials including recycled fencing and biodegradable flower pots and reusable products like jewel cases.

Fondée en 2001, Terracycle a commencé par produire de l'engrais organique, en conditionnant de La crotte de vers de terre liquéfiée dans des bouteilles de soda usagées.Depuis,elle propose des programmes de collecte des déchets issus de matériaux difficiles à recycler qu'elle transforme en nouveaux produits abordables et écologiques. Le but est d'éliminer le concept de déchet en créant des réseaux de recyclage nationaux pour des produits traditionnellement considérés comme non recyclables. La base de ce processus est de proposer des programmes de collecte (pour la plupart gratuits) destinés à ramasser les déchets et à les transformer en une large gamme de produits et de matériaux. Grâce à plus de 14 millions de personnes ramassant des déchets dans11 pays,des milliards d'unités ont déjà été détournées des sites d'enfouissement et transcyclés ou recyclés en plus de 200 produits différents déjà disponibles aux États-Unis dans les plus grandes enseignes.

TerraCycle® is proud to announce that we have partnered with Old Navy to collect used flip-flops at Old Navy stores through the Flip Flop Brigade!  The Brigade begins on Earth Day Friday, April 22nd and runs until the bins are full or Saturday, May 21st (whichever comes first) in all continental US Old Navy stores.

From April 22 to May 21, Old Navy stores are accepting used flip-flops for recycling. You can find the collection bins inside the store, usually up front by the entrance. TerraCycle will recycle the flip-flops into playground material which will be donated to communities around the country.

One environmentally friendly company is partnering with Old Navy stores nationwide to give communities a chance to turn their trash into treasure and help the environment at the same time. Beginning on Earth Day and continuing through May 21, the green company TerraCycle is collecting ready to be discarded flip-flops at more than 900 Old Navy locations nationwide, including the location in Aiken. TerraCycle will then take the discarded flip-flops, which many people do not realize are very difficult to recycle and would sit in a landfill for a long time, and use the material to create four playgrounds in communities throughout the country.

Even though Earth Day is over, you can still help the planet by doing something that they already do—shop! While setting out on spring shopping this April, you can participate in nationwide recycling programs in Geneva by bringing used flip-flops to Old Navy. Through May 21, shoppers of Old Navy can deposit 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.