2. Trinity Lutheran School helps recycle the "unrecyclable" Burr Ridge's Trinity Lutheran is another local school making a difference. Instead of throwing away difficult-to-recycle materials like cookie wrappers and potato chip bags, Trinity Lutheran sends that refuse to TerraCycle in New Jersey, a company that recycles trash that others often throw away. The students and staff at Trinity Lutheran are among the 14 million individuals worldwide who send trash to TerraCycle, which allows billions of pieces of trash to be converted into over 1,500 common products. Trinity Lutheran alone has sent over 13,740 units of trash to TerraCycle since 2009.