The school participates in the Drink Pouch Brigade, a free recycling program for individuals or groups from Capri Sun and TerraCycle.

It was at my lowest point that I attended a lecture given by Tom Szaky, the founder of an environmental startup called TerraCycle — and gained a new perspective on how to change the world.  He too started out as a Princeton student interested in helping the environment. Tom dropped out of school to found his own company in 2001, with the vision that he could one day “eliminate the idea of waste.” Within a few years, his passion and drive transformed his dream into substantial action.

TerraCycle's mission is to find ways to transform hard-to-recycle waste, including drink pouches, candy wrappers and cereal bags. A company spokesperson told us in an email: "The Capri Sun Tote Bag is an example of an upcycled product, where the packaging is reused in close to its original form.

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Terracycle allows you to send in your trash in exchange for a 2 cent donation to your choice of school or charity for each qualified piece of waste that you send in.  Besides the cash payment option they have also added a number of other great ways to reward you and your teams for your collections.

…nestled in a tiny nook of Trenton, NJ, is a company that’s revolutionizing the way we look at waste, TerraCycle. On the surface, they’re that cool company that up-cycles CapriSun packets into Tote Bags and circuit boards into picture frames; however, when you activate your inner sustainability nerd and look just a bit deeper, their business becomes much less arts and crafts and much more smarty-pants.

You are probably familiar with TerraCycle as the company that uses materials like Capri Sun pouches and turns them into book bags, folders, lunch boxes, and more. They are super trendy and a cool way to upcycle.

Did you know that you can Be Green and Earn Green with Capri Sun through TerraCycle? Well you can! Just collect the juice pouches along with other select items and they turn them into fun stuff such as backpacks and pencil pouches. They look super cool too! So make sure to do your part and recycle/collect your juice boxes. You can even get your school involved and collect more while earning additional funds for new playground equipment, after school activities, supplies and whatever else your school needs!

Can we make money out of other people’s garbage? Well, according to Tom Szaky, the answer is yes, absolutely. Tom is the Founder/CEO of TerraCycle, a successful small business which turns garbage into useful products and, eventually, money.

Everybody wants to change the world in some way. But Tom Szaky has actually been doing it since he turned 20. Szaky's journey began in his native Budapest and eventually landed him in Trenton, but it was a meeting in Canada that changed his life.