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Taco Bell Wants You To Save Your Sauce Packets So They Can Help You Recycle Them

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When ordering a meal from Taco Bell, it’s pretty common to grab a handful of sauce packets for the road. Half you’ll use for now to smother on top of your Crunchwrap Supreme or Doritos Locos Tacos. The other half you’ll probably save for later to pull out of the junk drawer when you’ve made a bowl of rice to add some flavor. Normally, you throw out the little sleeve of plastic when you’re done using it. But Taco Bell wants you to do something else—send them back to be recycled. You may be thinking how on earth will those little packets of mild, hot, and diablo sauce being recycled make any kind of difference? Well, 8 billion end up in landfills every year. Taco Bell is partnering with TerraCycle, a company known for recycling hard-to-recycle items, to create a program where customers collect the sauce packets to eventually ship back. Here’s how it works. Go onto Taco Bell’s website, and create an account for the Sauce Packet Recycling Pilot Program. Start collecting the packets in a box and once full, print the label provided by TerraCycle for free shipping and send it off! “Recycling just got saucy,” as the company’s website so perfectly puts it. From there, the recycling company will clean them and melt them down to form into a plastic to be used for numerous other items. Who knew you could help out the planet so much when ordering 12 tacos and a cheesy quesadilla?