The company TerraCycle even pays the school for every pound of difficult-to-recycle items, such as markers, glue sticks and drink pouches. “This program looks to reinforce the idea of recycling on the children,” said Tuttle. “When I was in school, recycling was looked at as extreme and something only tree huggers did,” said Davis. “Now it should be a way of life and our social responsibility to recycle because we cannot keep going at the pace that we are going. My little acorn has become the mighty oak.”