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Students at Liberty Elementary School are receiving classroom instruction at all levels, including art, which are based on the United States Environmental Protection Agency's guidelines to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. In fact, the top three Recycle ART projects will be presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Artr in Spring. Every Friday, between 8 a.m. and 8:35 a.m.., studens, parents, staff and community members bring their recyclable items to teh school. Students are learning to recycle  beyond the usual plastic bottle or can. They bring in all plastics, metals, cardboard, newspaper, and more.

Then there was keynoter Tom Szaky, founder of TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> , whose out-of-the-bottle thinking created a new business and a way to recycle a multitude of products previously designated for the waste stream. After devising an ingenious method for farming worm poop (yes, I said worm poop) and converting it to fertilizer, TerraCycle then came up with the idea of recycling old Coke and Pepsi bottles--as is, without breaking them down first--to distribute the product, turning two types of garbage into a resaleable and useful product simultaneously and cheaply. (The only first-run part of the product is the label.)

Walmart and TerraCycle are sponsoring the Trash to Cash Collection Contest, a program that will reward the top-collecting New Jersey public schools with $125,000 in grants. The contest is open to any public school in the state. The schools that collect the most used packaging and products through TerraCycle's free Brigade programs will receive grants ranging from $5,000 to $50,000. The contest runs through Dec. 15, and the winners will be announced in early January.

RUMSON, NJ - New Jersey based TerraCycle manufactures more than fifty products made from non-recyclable waste materials. Affordable, eco-friendly items such as shower curtains, purses and kites made from juice drink pouches and bulletin boards made from wine corks are sold in major retailers such as Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Office Max, Petco and Whole Foods Markets. The company has been featured on a National Geographic television program, (Garbage Moguls) won national awards and obtained high praise for its environmentally friendly products and for keeping hundreds of tons of garbage out of landfills. But, how do they amass the huge amount of materials needed to make their products? This is where the TerraCycle Brigades come in. The Brigades are part of a national program that pays school groups and non-profits to collect the items needed by TerraCycle to make its products.

SOUTHBOROUGH, MA, October 20 – The teachers at the Woodward Memorial School used to see a lot of Capri Sun drink pouches get thrown away.  Once they signed up to recycle them through a company called TerraCycle, the school began earning two cents for every one of those pouches and became part of a nationwide effort that has just reached an impressive milestone of keeping 50 million pouches out of landfills.  In addition, TerraCycle, which makes affordable, eco-friendly products from packaging waste, and Capri Sun have paid one million dollars to schools and non-profits in return for the recycled drink pouches.

A frequent topic of conversation among business’s big thinkers is the importance of connecting with and more effectively engaging consumers. But how can you connect retailers, manufacturers and consumers with each other, simultaneously? It may have begun now, in the shape of a converted trailer now residing in 6 Wal-Marts.

TerraCycle have just joined forces with Danone to help reduce landfill.  What’s more you can raise money for charity or for a school by collecting Danone yoghurt pots. Terracycle will upcycle and recycle your collected waste materials into new products.  Take a look at the TerraCycle site to see the range of products you can buy.

Szaky explained how he started TerraCycle in his dorm room at Princeton University, collecting waste from the campus. Tom Szaky, the recipient of the College’s 2nd Annual Award for Innovative Leadership, may be the creator and CEO of TerraCycle, a Trenton-based company pioneering an international movement to help save our planet — but he hasn’t always been the conventional role model.

A company has recognized Holy Name School for its extensive efforts to recycle Capri Sun drink pouches.  TerraCycle makes affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials, according to its Web site.  The company and Capri Sun recognized Holy Name for being one of the Top 100 collectors nationwide. The school earns two cents for every pouch that is saved.