Southwest-area schools are among many in the county earning cash by sending non-recyclable waste products to a New Jersey company that transforms the trash into new products like kites and backpacks. TerraCycle partnered with home city brand Malt-O-Meal Cereal Company to collect Malt-O-Meal packaging through “Cereal Bag Brigades” stationed in schools across the country. There are about 1,250 brigades, TerraCycle reported in June.

In honor of the upcoming holiday, Our Daily Green would like to celebrate a company that is taking huge steps to free our nation from trash. Last summer, we wrote about the company TerraCycle and their unique way of helping organizations raise money with trash. TerraCycle is a New Jersey based company that turns items such as juice bags, candy and chip wrappers, and glue bottles into funky, fun school and office supplies and other novelties.

Existe un proyecto ecológico que está llevando a cabo la empresa TerraCycle con el que buscan reducir la basura tanto en México como en otros países del mundo y esto lo hace comprando los desechos domésticos.

Insecticides with ingredients such as vinegar and orange oil are sold at many nurseries, Spiegelman says, and boiling water kills weeds. She likes several organic lawn care products, including TerraCycle's liquid lawn fertilizer made with worm waste, available at its Web site (terracycle.net).

¿Cuántas veces ha tenido la intención de echarle una manita al medio ambiente? ¿cuántas veces lo ha logrado?, muchos se quedan en el intento…pero, ¿qué pasaría si existiera la forma de reutilizar eso a lo que le llamamos basura y obtuviéramos dinero por hacerlo para darle una ayudadita a personas que lo necesitan?… ¿cambiarían las cosas?

  Did you know that you could earn money for your homeschool group by turning in your trash? TerraCycle's free national collection programs pay non-profits and schools money for collecting used packaging such as drink pouches, energy bar wrappers, yogurt cups, cookie wrappers, chip bags, glue bottles and more! TerraCycle makes affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste materials.

Terracycle <http://www.myatlantamommy.com/2009/12/terracycle.html>  is a fantastic organization which takes used wrappers and turns them into some super cool stuff! They are always coming up with fun and cool ways to recycle, but they also have come up with a way (actually 6 ways) Moms can go green, reduce waste at home, AND raise money for their kids school and/or favourite charity.

TerraCycle is a fantastic organization which takes used wrappers and turns them into some super cool stuff! They are always coming up with fun and cool ways to recycle, but they also have come up with a way (actually 6 ways) Moms can go green, reduce waste at home, AND raise money for their kids school and/or favorite charity.

Terracycle <http://www.myatlantamommy.com/2009/12/terracycle.html>  is a fantastic organization which takes used wrappers and turns them into some super cool stuff! They are always coming up with fun and cool ways to recycle, but they also have come up with a way (actually 6 ways) Moms can go green, reduce waste at home, AND raise money for their kids school and/or favourite charity.

A Far Northside school and two area churches earned money for their programs while keeping waste out of landfills. Students in Kathrynn Hodson's class at Spring Mill Elementary and groups at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church on the Far Southside and St. John's Lutheran Church on the Southeastside collected non-recyclable packaging such as makeup tubes through a program called the Aveeno Beauty Brigade, said Sara Koncius, TerraCycle spokeswoman. TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based company, takes the items like the tubes, chip bags or even bicycle chain and turns them into products such as backpacks, pictures frames and makeup pouches. The school and churches earned two cents for every tube collected. Any school group or nonprofit can sign up for the program, Koncius said. Both churches also are participating in other fundraising collections such as the Capri Sun Drink Pouch Brigade and the Frito-Lay Chip Bag Brigade.