On Monday December 21st, Michael Jasmin and his After School team packaged and UPS’ed to a site in NJ approximately 1100 empty juice pouches which will be “upcycled” in exchange for a financial contribution to PS 261 via a company called TerraCycle. The funds raised won’t single- handedly close 261’s budget gap, and the trash they collect won’t reverse global warming on its own, but over the course of a year After School’s collection team will raise hundreds of dollars for PS 261 while saving thousands of square feet of garbage from a landfill.