For example, Pultyniewicz said, instead of buying individual juice boxes for your child, purchase one large recyclable container of juice and reuse a thermos daily. If you decide to buy individual boxes of juice, choose brands with packaging that can be recycled. Apart from the plastic straw, wax-covered paper juice boxes are now recyclable in Montgomery County (see attached .pdf file for a detailed list about what can and can't be recycled in Montgomery County). Foil juice boxes, although not recycled through the county, are collected at some area schools as a fundraiser via TerraCycle, a company that makes new items from waste products. Any of these choices is ecologically preferable to a week's worth of juice containers piling up in the trash.