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ELIMINATING THE IDEA OF WASTE®

Turn Trash Into Treasure

In lunch rooms across the country, tons of wrappers,juice pouches, and yougurt cups are tossed away every day... But you can keep that trash out of our landfills by sending them to Terracycle. They turn "trash" into pencil cases, tote bags, and backpacks.So cool right? So ask your teacher if you and your classmates can start a recycling team. Go to Terracycle.net to fond out where to send that lunchroom trash.

TERRACYCLE, UNA IDEA DONDE TODOS GANAMOS

Las primeras marcas interesada en patrocinar a Terracycle son Bic y Tang. La prueba de este éxito de emprendeduría es que Terracycle ya está implantada en 13 países y tiene 30 millones de usuarios y se estima que sus ingresos en 2011 alcanzarán los 20 millones de dólares. Una vez más nos agrada sorprendernos ante estas innovadoras ideas que tienen en cuenta la sostenibilidad y el cuidado medioambiental. Sin duda es necesario fomentar este valor de negocio win to win , donde al final todos ganamos.

Flip Flop Brigade – Old Navy & Terrycle

While catching up on my DVR’d Ellen shows (my favorite show ever!) this week I saw the awesome program Old Navy & Terrycle has put together right now in honor of Earth month called Flip Flop Brigade.  They are asking for you to donate all old flip flops so they can turn them into playgrounds.  Every year millions of used flip-flops are needlessly discarded and end up in landfills. TerraCycle® is proud to partner with Old Navy® to create a second life for used flip-flops.

Hunterdon schools hold 'Kids Vote' next to adult polling places today

Here middle and elementary students are each deciding how to spend a small portion of $50,000 grant money the school won this year from Walmart by collecting wrappers for reuse by the company TerraCycle. Sixth- through eighth-graders vote on one of three ways to spend $2,500: buy customized flash drives for each student; buy tables, chairs and umbrellas for lunchtime al fresco dining in a school courtyard; or bring in a mini-game show assembly.

ReFlip, ReFlop, ReCycle

If you’re a flip flop fanatic (and why shouldn't you be), chances are you’ve got a spare pair or two that are due for retirement. Instead of donating them to your neighborhood thrift store (although that’s good too), consider dropping them off at your local Old Navy outlet. From now until May 21, the nationwide retailer is teaming up with trash-to-treasure eco-company TerraCycle to collect old flip flops and turn them into four public playgrounds in communities across the U.S. How cool is that?

Highlands Elementary Goes Green

Highlands even goes so far as to recycle the un-recyclable. Through an innovative company called TerraCycle, Highlands helps turn things that would otherwise be filling up landfills–like potato chip bags and juice boxes–into new items like fences, benches and recycling bins. Clever, huh? Some dedicated Highlands students even volunteer their recess time to collect accepted materials for TerraCycle from other classrooms.    Inside of the school, motion detectors for lights have been installed to reduce wasted energy.

Old Navy hosting flip flop dropoff

Until May 21, Old Navy shoppers can participate in the Flip Flop Replay by depositing their used flip flops in 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. By bringing in these hard-to-recycle products to their local stores, consumers help keep waste out of their community landfills.