Profiting from trash
school TerraCycle Include USA
The Upcycling program at Bluffton-Harrison Middle School received its first check last week. About $40. Not bad for a volunteer program that sells garbage.
Last October parent volunteer Cindy Kanka approached the Bluffton-Harrison school board to request BMS be allowed to participate in the upcycling program offered by New Jersey-based TerraCycle.
TerraCycle uses waste products, juice pouches, cookie wrappers, chip bags, and turns them into new products. So far, they produce about 245 different products from the waste including clipboards, pencil cases and fencing.