TerraCycle: We’ve already mentioned
TerraCycle–a company that collects potato chip bags and
food wrappers to make useful products. Join their
Candy Wrapper Brigade to turn in your wrappers for some cash! Just
sign-up and they’ll send you prepaid postage labels–for each wrapper you send it, TerraCycle will donate $0.02 to your favorite charity or school.
I have a favor to ask of each of you. Our Girl Scout Troop is participating in a fundraiser through TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> . We ship (free of charge, I must add) our recyclables in bulk to this company in exchange for money to go towards our Troop activities.
.” After the students empty the pouches and remove the straw, Mrs. Janis slits the bottom, rinses them out with water (to discourage “critters” while the pouches await shipment) and dries them, usually on her clothesline. “I am old-school enough to have two at my home.” Then they are sorted, counted and packaged in boxes for free shipment to TerraCycle in New Jersey. This upstart company, founded by a Princeton graduate, takes this waste and “upcyles” them into cool new products, like juice pouch pencil bags, tote bags, backpacks, and lunchboxes. More importantly, they reward nonprofits with approximately two cents for each pouch they collect.
The Candy Wrapper Brigade is a partnership between Mars/Wrigley, Cadbury and TerraCycle, a company that makes products from non-recyclable waste materials. They're currently asking for you to send in some of your used candy wrappers to use as raw materials for their products.
An in-depth piece on TerraCycle by Brazil's Globo News.
Founder and CEO of TerraCycle, Tom Szaky has been collecting and upcycling refuse since childhood, starting with discarded TVs and computer monitors.
The Evening Star 4-H Club is currently part of the Capri Sun Drink Pouch Brigade, a program that pays schools and non-profit organizations to collect otherwise-non-recyclable waste that would normally go to a landfill. Working with a recycle company called TerraCycle, the 4-H members have been collecting Capri Sun pouches, gum and candy wrappers, toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, tape dispensers, and glue bottles, which they then send in for recycling.
Hi, kids! Have you heard of TerraCycle? TerraCycle is the first company to create every part of its recycled products from trash. For example, TerraCycle takes empty juice pouches and chip and candy bags and makes them into stylish totebags, purses, and cell phone holders.
Você, o meio ambiente e as empresas ganham!
