Glenwood Avenue students turn trash to treasure
TerraCycle Frito-Lay (Pepsico) Include USA
WILDWOOD — Jason Fuscellaro’s classroom at Glenwood Avenue Elementary school is full of boxes of empty chip bags, juice containers, candy wrappers and empty tubes of toothpaste.
It was trash that was headed for a landfill, but because of Fuscellaro’s class’ new recycling program they’ll be turned into new products and a money maker for the school.
The program is through TerraCycle, a Trenton company that says it wants to “eliminate the idea of waste.” The company created recycling systems for various products where anyone sign up to be part of a group, called brigades, and start sending them waste.
For example, there is a brigade for chip bags that works with Frito-Lay to “up-cycle” the bags into products like tote bags, plant containers or park benches. The brigade has to collect enough chip bags, 350 for this program, to be counted.