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TerraCycle Review

Have you heard of TerraCycle? I have been a huge fan of all the fabulous things they do to help reuse wrappers and juice pouches that might otherwise make it to the landfill and make some really wonderful products!
I first fell in love with TerraCycle after seeing their adorable bags made out of Upcycled Capri Sun juice pouches... Pretty great right? You get an amazing product while helping to save the planet! Well there is big news coming from Terracycle, and I am so excited to help spread the buzz! Starting April 5th 2010 you'll be able to find TerraCycle products in EVERY Walmart across the nation!

New York, NY @ Terracycle Green Up Shop

Greetings New Yorkers! Please come celebrate Earth Month with the Terracycle Green Up Shop, a design and boutique shopping experience springing up for a limited time only, opening March 27, 2010. In honor of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, it features some of New York’s finest green design and fashion. The shop will showcase a wide range of green products and services and host exciting weekly events like eco-friendly film screenings, lectures, and DIY events. Which brings us to Generation T! Come join us (and Etsy and Green Up vendors RePlayGround and Garbage of Eden, and, and…I’m just giddy thinking about it) for a free-to-the-public DIY Scraptacular on April 8! Come support the green movement and make stuff out of scraps (and in the case of Generation T, scrap T-shirts!). Oh, and as if you needed anything more, beverages provided by Brooklyn Brewery and Snow.

Guilderland Elementary does...does your school?

According to the Guilderland Elementary School Acting PTA President, Guilderland Elementary School raises money by upcycling Capri Sun juice pouches.  By simply offering a recycling container in a lunchroom, local schools and organizations can earn money and protect the environment. Starting healthy habits for body and earth can start early with Capri Sun.  Yes, that says Capri Sun.  Remember the sugary juice in bags that kids loved in the 80's?  For today's kids, Capri Sun offers 100% juice, recyclable pouches, and school or organization fundraising programs.  This is a win, win, win situation.

TerraCycle’s ‘Green Up Shop’ Opens Today

At the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City, a pop up shop has taken over the space at 8th Avenue and 41st Street. This once empty retail space is now home to TerraCycle‘s Green Up Shop. This innovative store will feature TerraCycle’s full line of over 100 products literally made from common waste materials such as chip bags, food wrappers, yogurt cups, glue bottles and writing instruments. In addition to selling its affordable, fun products made from waste, TerraCycle will use the space to collect over 30 different non-recyclable items, turning the store into the world’s largest upcycling center. Consumers who drop off waste will be given a discount on the products they purchase at the Shop.

How to bag a billboard, or an answer to the L.A. city attorney's prayers

One enterprising company, Yak Pak, is turning old billboards into one-of-a-kind bags. There are pencil bags, camera bags, totes and messengers, all made of “upcycled” vinyl from old billboards that otherwise would end up in landfills. (Hot stat: The company says that every year in the U.S. more that 3 million billboards are sent to landfills.) To make the bags, Yak Pak partnered with TerraCycle, a business devoted to  being environmentally friendly by making products out of waste. Yak Pak, celebrating its 20th year in business, calls the billboard bags its "most innovative product line yet."

FREE TerraCycle

I just discovered this site. No, you will not make money, but you can help a charity with your trash! It's free to join and it's going towards a good cause! I'm asking y'all to join my team and collect juice pouches, chip bags, candy wrappers, cookie bags, etc. They even provide shipping labels for you to ship the items to them! If you join my team, I do NOT get any money or anything special. You're just helping me collect for a local charity in New Orleans called Cambodia Children's Sanctuary  which helps out abandoned children and such. For each of the items you send in, they donate $0.02 to the charity. It may not seem like a lot but with all my followers I know we can make a difference! It's free to join, you're getting rid of trash and recycling at the same time as well as helping a very worthy charity!