TerraCycle and Kraft Cheese have partnered with Six Flags to give visitors a $15 general admission discount to parks across the United States. Six Flags Over Texas is accepting specially marked Kraft string cheese and twists packaging. This particular Kraft packaging is difficult to recycle throughout most of the country so this is a rare opportunity for the public. TerraCycle will use the packaging to make eco-friendly plastic products including flower pots, park benches and picnic tables. Recyclable packaging will be accepted any day of the week now through October 10, 2011. Recycling is fast and easy and people can get a feeling of being involved in taking care of the environment while getting a great discount for fun! In addition to this new Cheese Packaging Brigade, TerraCycle also has a Lunchables Lunch Kit Brigade and Capri Sun Drink Pouch Brigade with Kraft.

With funding in short supply across Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, folks are looking everywhere for extra money. Bain Elementary School Art Teacher Carrie Vizzini has found a creative way to earn a little extra money for her school. Through the TerraCycle program, available to any nonprofit, she's turning school trash into cash. Since Vizzini pioneered the program at Bain in August of 2009, the school has received almost $2,500 from empty juice pouches, cookie and chip bags, plastic sandwich bags, energy bar wrappers, empty pens and markers, and other items. She got the idea after buying a carton of juice pouches for her four-year-old daughter, Mia. "I saw the TerraCycle website on the side of the carton and I looked it up online. When I thought about all the recyclable items that our students throw away everyday, I knew it would be a great idea. We could keep all that trash out of the landfill and earn money for our school," said Vizzini.

This school in Souris was the first Manitoba school to join TerraCycle's Brigades and has been tops in collecting drink pouches this year.

Get paid to recycle. Start a drive at your school to collect yogurt containers, drink pouches, chip, cookie and candy packages, plus Scott and Huggies wrappers and Elmer’s glue sticks and bottles. The school can earn 2 cents per piece of packaging (terracycle.net/brigades).

Students at Barkers Point Elementary School in Fredericton are helping turn trash into treasures.

way to educate and inspire the students to be environmentally responsible.

In honor of the upcoming holiday, Our Daily Green would like to celebrate a company that is taking huge steps to free our nation from trash. Last summer, we wrote about the company TerraCycle and their unique way of helping organizations raise money with trash. TerraCycle is a New Jersey based company that turns items such as juice bags, candy and chip wrappers, and glue bottles into funky, fun school and office supplies and other novelties.

A Capri Sun juice pouch does not seem big enough to hold anything but juice. Lincoln Elementary students think differently. They're using old Capri Suns pouches to turn into purses and help the environment while they do it. Students at Lincoln are participating in Terracycle Brigades, a nationwide program that pays schools and non-profit organizations to collect non-recyclable waste that would otherwise go to a landfill, according to a press release.

Lindsay Hetzler discovered a way to turn her daughter Lorelei’s favorite drink into money for her school. By her account, Hetzler buys “a ton” of Capri Sun juice boxes for her family. Last fall while reading the back of one of the drink pouches, Hetzler learned about TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based company that makes eco-friendly products from a wide range of nonrecyclable waste materials. She learned about a free nationwide program offered by TerraCycle called “Brigades” where you can earn money for your school or nonprofit organization by collecting nonrecyclable items and mailing them to the company.