This spring, the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) will become a TerraCycle collection site, joining thousands of other organizations around the world in diverting waste from landfills.

“We will be working with a recycling company called TerraCycle, and to make our project a success, we need not only the school but the community’s help,” Carlson said. TerraCycle is a company that takes used packaging and other products that would otherwise end up in landfills and reuses them to create new materials and products, also known as “upcycling.”

Farr launched Millicoma's chapter of the TerraCycle program three years ago, a recycling company that advocates for environmental awareness.

"At the Aquarium we partner with TerraCycle. TerraCycle is an organization that takes hard to recycle waste and produces things that are usable," said Jennifer Metzler-Fiorino, education curator. "The money we receive from the TerraCycle program, that goes to fund our conservation efforts."

TerraCycle is offering a donation to schools of two cents per candy wrapper this Halloween for groups that collect and mail in at least nine pounds of polypropylene wrappers. TerraCycle is encouraging organizations to alert families about the program ahead of Halloween to remind them to save the wrappers, which are otherwise tough to recycle. Environmental News Network (10/18)

Twelve-year-old Mathis LeBlanc of Massena, New York started collecting for TerraCycle's Drink Pouch Brigade in January, placing a container in his elementary school's cafeteria where kids can drop off their empty Capri Sun pouches. To date, Mathis has helped collect more than 11,000 drink pouches that he can send to TerraCycle at no cost, generating "points" that he can use to raise money for charity or his elementary school.

St. Gregory the Great Episcopal Church in Athens is hosting its first TerraCycle Triathlon of Trash through Aug. 15. The community is asked to gather trash from the list included here below and bring it to the TerraCycle Triathlon of Trash Showdown on Aug. 16 at a location to be determined. The person that brings the most trash, by weight, will win a free semester at the University of Georgia — in-state tuition only, estimated at $3,800. Trash that will be accepted includes: Drink pouches, straws and straw wrappers, coffee pouches, cookie and cracker wrappers, energy bar, breakfast bar and energy food wrappers, candy and gum wrappers, chip and pretzel bags, all lunch kit trays and wrappers, dairy containers, Sprout brand baby food and crushed fruit bags, containers and wrappers, cereal bags, Bear Naked brand granola and cereal product wrappers, wine corks, disposable household tape dispensers, plastic sandwich bags and temporary plastic containers. Also, wrappers from toilet paper, napkins and paper towels, toothpaste tubes, dental floss devices and used toothbrushes, glue containers and glue sticks, all writing instruments except chalk and crayons, beauty and skin care product tubes and containers, diaper wrappers, cheese wrappers, tortilla, tostada and bread wrappers, home cleaning containers and items, plastic drinking cups, laundry and dish wash detergent briquette bags, wine pouches, hummus containers and cigarette and cigar waste including ashes, unburnt tobacco, filter stubs, plastic outer wrap and aluminum paper inner wrapping. St. Gregory also will accept all cellphones, MP3 players, digital cameras, GPS systems, calculators, printer and toner cartridges and laptop computers including all cords and chargers, and all shoes. For information on how to package the trash, about the competition, about TerraCycle and more, call Andrew Lane at (706) 296-6631 or emailandrew.s.lane@us.army.mil.

The Swigert Daisies have started a Terracycle program in our cafeteria.  If you are unfamiliar with Terracycle, check the out here: www.terracycle.com.  Terracycle reduces waste by recycling many items that are not traditionally able to be recycled.

Kure Beach, NC— After the jack-o-lanterns go dark and the last bits of candy eaten, a massive amount of trash remains to remind us of Halloween fun and excess. The N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher invites local students to put a little green in their Halloween by collecting used candy wrappers for recycling. Instead of trashing empty wrappers and filling landfills with extra waste, classes around New Hanover and Brunswick counties are encouraged to save the wrappers. The class delivering the most candy wrappers by weight to the Aquarium by Dec. 1, 2012, will be treated to a free Outreach program including a live animal presentation. The Aquarium will weigh the collected wrappers, sort according to recycling viability and send the wrappers to a recycling partner, TerraCycle. TerraCycle creates recycling systems for hard-to-recycle waste, turning trash to treasure in the form of new products like park benches, purses and backpacks. This partnership raises money for conservation efforts at the Aquarium. “This wrapper program is part of our ongoing focus on conservation and helps raise money for Aquarium conservation efforts,” said Jennifer Metzler-Fiorino, Education Curator. “Students can collectively take action in a simple way, and begin to think of new ways their communities can make a positive impact on our environment.” Wrappers will be accepted at the Aquarium from 9 to 5 p.m. Aquarium staff will try to weigh wrappers at the time of drop-off. If, however, this is not possible, an email will be sent to the classroom teacher documenting the weight. Please note, the Aquarium welcomes all wrapper contributions during the collection period. The winning outreach program, however, is limited to one program for 30 students. N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher is located 15 miles south of Wilmington, near Kure Beach, on U.S. 421. The site is less than a mile from the Fort Fisher ferry terminal. Normal operating hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily (closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s days). Admission: $8 ages 13-61, $7 ages 62 and older, $6 ages 3-12, free for children 2 and younger, NC Aquarium Society members and pre-registered North Carolina school groups. General information: ncaquariums.com/fort-fisher.