TerraCycle and Capri Sun have reached a major milestone in the Drink Pouch Brigade and an area school is being named America's Best Brigade for helping them do it.
They've just reached the 50 millionth pouch collected mark, which means that $1 million has been paid to schools adn non-profits across the country just for sending us this waste. TerraCycle uses this waste as raw material to make affordable, eco-friendly products.
Del Rey Elementary School in King City is among the Top 100 Collecting Schools out of about 30,000 nationwide that participate in TerraCycle's Drink Pouch Brigade, a free fundraising program that pays $.02 per unit of waste collected.
She also is an avid supporter of Beat the Heat, a city program that aids seniors and Terracycle, which recycles material into products such as lunch and tote bags. One of her recent projects is “Make a Difference Day” a national campaign which she supports through fundraising and collection efforts.
TerraCycle’s Brigades are an excellent fundraising vehicle for schools and organizations. For every piece of waste collected for a Brigade, TerraCycle donates $0.02 to the school or charity of your choice.
As of July 2010, Brigade participants can earn a 5x donation credit on their first shipment. That means the first 25 pieces in a large shipment you send in will be credited at $0.10 each. The rest will be credited at the standard rate. Visit TerraCycle’s website to learn more or to sign up for a Brigade.
Do you know about TerraCycle? Frito Lay is asking large institutions to recycle their snack bags to TerraCycle. They will even pay for the shipping and donate 2 cents per bag to a school or non profit institution! For more information, please go to:
www.fritolay.com
Embalagens de produtos da linha cut-size são coletadas e transformadas em novos materiais e produtos de qualidade com valor ambiental agregado.
A Suzano Papel e Celulose em parceria com a Terracycle, empresa internacional de upcycling (reciclagem de materiais e conversão em produtos acessíveis), criou a Brigada Report, um programa de recuperação de suas embalagens de papel cut-size.
Embalagens de produtos da linha cut-size são coletadas e transformadas em novos materiais e produtos de qualidade com valor ambiental agregado
Com a chegada do verão e das férias escolares, aumenta o número de turistas no litoral. Aproveitando esse momento de descontração, a marca de sucos em pó Tang, da Kraft Foods Brasil, lança em algumas praias o
projeto “Verão Esquadrão Verde Tang”.
We’d love you to save all your used pouches and pack’o'snacks and send them – free of charge – to TerraCycle. And not only just Ella’s packaging… you can also send TerraCycle any other brand of baby food pouch in the same envelope! You could maybe get together with a group of friends or other parents at your little one’s nursery or school to start collecting.
In particular, she cited the "upcycling" firm TerraCycle as an example of a company who used social media in order to publicise its activities and green credentials. The firm recycles rubbish collected from schools and other public institutions and turns them into items such as recycling bins, fences and insulated coolers.
Companies should not "lose light of the consumer perspective...and so they get insight into what the consumer is thinking about when it comes to sustainable packaging", she added.
