| Story by Melissa Buckley
GUIDON staff
melissa.k.buckley2.civ@mail.mil
Most people know you can recycle things like plastic bottles and aluminum cans on post, but did you know your Family’s random trash, like makeup containers and juice pouches, could be benefiting the Armed Services YMCA — an organization that benefits Families connected to Fort Leonard Wood?
“The TerraCycle program brings communities together to help build a sustainable future through — upcycling, recycling and donation efforts,” said Michelle Clemens, Balfour Beatty LifeWorks coordinator.
“I organize all the items collected for the TerraCycle brigades to send in to the TerraCycle Company, so that we receive credit for our organization. Each brigade is valued on a point system that in turn creates a dollar amount to donate to the organization of our choice,” she added.
TerraCycle is an international upcycling and recycling company that collects difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and repurposes the material into affordable, innovative products. Balfour Beatty coordinates the program on post.
TerraCycle calls each collection program a brigade. Clemens said anyone that wants to participate in the program can drop off collected items to any of the community centers on post — Stonegate Community Center at 235 Ellis Street, Woodlands Community Center at 140 Indiana Avenue or Piney Hills Community Center at 100 Thayer Street.
“This is a program intended to get the community involved so that we can reduce waste going to landfills as well as giving back to one of our amazing organizations (connected to) Fort Leonard Wood,” Clemens said. “It is very important we get the community involved so we have enough collections to send in. Each program has a certain weight limit or quantity restriction before we can send the items in and receive credit.”
According to Clemens, they are always collecting. For more information contact at her at fclemens@bbcgrp.com, 573.329.1009 or visitwww.ftlwoodfamilyhousing.com. |
