Along with the TerraCycle Totebag Giveaway from last week - I got  a couple products for me as well! TerraCycle <http://terracycle.net/>  sent me a Lunchbox and a pencil pouch - both made from recycled CapriSun Pouches!  I was surprised at how nice they were...not sure what I was expecting, but when you hear "recycled" - pretty items don't always come to mind. I was so wrong! These were so nice and sturdy.

I recently wrapped up a Terracycle giveaway in which Ken won a great tote bag for his kids. He let me know that he will use it to teach his kids how products like this help to reduce their carbon footprints. Terracycle sent me the products pictured above: a TerraCycle Drink Pouch Pencil Case ($2.99) and a TerraCycle Drink Pouch Lunch Box ($7.99).  My kids have seen these in the store before and as a matter of fact while we were shopping for school supplies this year, my 8 year old requested the pencil bag. Since we couldn't find one, she ended up with another bag, but now she has the one she really wanted and a cool lunch box as well! I wish that I could show you just how nice these products are because I don't think the pictures do them justice.

Who I am doesn't really matter, what does matter is what I am doing to help raise funding for Care and Share by utilizing a company called Terracycle that follows the Reduce, Reuse and Recycle policies and in doing so donates money to a volunteers chosen non-profit agency. As a Boy Scout I learned of this drive, or as Terracycle refers to it as a Brigade, that takes various items and recycles them into new products.

Our M&M speakers and boomboxes were featured on the Today Show  this morning for their “Ghoulsih Gadgets For Halloween” Segment.

TerraCycle sent me a lunchbox and a pencil pouch - both made from recycled CapriSun Pouches! I love how they are very well made, they are way cool! I think a perfect gift for tweens. There are so many different things that they offer too out of other materials.  Both of the products are very durable, cute & stylish, and can easily be wiped clean. You shouold check it out and hook up with a schol near you that are collecting for recycling.

Imagine, que com sua ajuda, aquela embalagem que você recolheu e enviou para a reciclagem sem nenhum custo deixará de poluir um aterro, irá gerar renda para pessoas carentes e ainda poderá ser readquirida em grandes redes varejistas com uma nova função através de produtos descolados e modernos.

A unidade de Chocolates da Nestlé anunciou parceria com a TerraCycle, especializada na coleta e reuso de resíduos pós-consumo difíceis de reciclar.

Thank you TerraCycle!  I am a HUGE fan of TerraCycle and their mission.  As you may remember they recently sponsored a TerraCycle Drink Pouch Tote Bag Giveaway-one of our readers won a similar tote bag to the one pictured above!  Ann and I received the Drink Pouch Lunch Bag and a Drink Pouch Pencil Bag.  (I actually recently received a Drink Pouch Tote Bag for my birthday from my sister!)

TerraCycle and Colgate are coming together to offer free curriculum to teach kids to keep their teeth and their Earth healthy & clean. Colgate has worked for more than 15 years to help offer curriculum through the Bright Smiles Bright Future program <http://www.colgate.com/app/BrightSmilesBrightFutures/US/EN/HomePage.cvsp>  and has reached more than 50 million children and their families a year in 30 languages and 80 countries around the world. TerraCycles curriculum program <http://www.terracycle.net/curriculums/overview>  will be released 3 times a year and is headed up by Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education and is meant to reach children K through 12 grades.

TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/>  is the company that takes what others may consider trash and upcycles it into not only useable but very creative and stylish products. Tom Szaky  <http://www.terracycle.net/> is the founder and CEO of TerraCycle and was named one of the fastest growing private companies by Inc. magazine in 2009. Tom and TerraCycle have started to change the way individuals and companies see waste. Since 2007, over 60,000 locations and 7 million people are helping to collect, instead of discard their trash. Over 1 billion pieces of pre and post consumer packaging have been collected and over 250,000 dollars have been donated to schools and non profits.