The school participates in the Drink Pouch Brigade®, a free recycling program for individuals or groups from Capri Sun and eco-pioneer TerraCycle®. To mark the milestone of almost 200 million drink pouches collected and almost $4 million given to charity since the start of the program six years ago.
The school participates in the Drink Pouch Brigade, a free recycling program for individuals or groups from Capri Sun and eco-pioneer TerraCycle.
Rethinking what is trash is key to TerraCycling. TerraCycling is a concept that is less then 10 years old but has spread to more than 20 different countries and is now rooted and growing in the local Lincoln County community.
A representative from Terra Cycle, who partners with Capri Sun, to help recycle Capri Sun pouches, stopped by and helped us make a tote bag. My first experience with making a Capri Sun bag was interesting.
TerraCycle accepts waste that is harder to categorize and items you probably didn’t realize you could recycle, such as old make-up containers, cheese packaging, shampoo bottles, etc. The lists of things you can recycle is quite extensive and really makes a difference in the amount of “trash” you throw away each month.
Chesnut Charter Elementary is starting off the new year by participating in the TerraCycle’s Drink Pouch Brigade. The goal of TerraCycle, an international upcycling and recycling company, is to eliminate the idea of waste by creating collection and solution programs for all kinds of typically non-recyclable waste.
Tom Szaky is proving that one man’s waste is everyone’s treasure. His company,
TerraCycle, Inc. is eliminating the idea of “waste” by creating easy-to-use collection systems and recycling processes that allow people to recycle materials previously considered “non-recyclable.”
Your school can sign up for this special program and collect Capri Sun packages from students. The school then sends them in using a pre-paid envelope. In turn the school will get money for the pouches that they submit. Not only does the school make money, it keeps the pouches out of landfills and it teaches students about recyclin
What is interesting about
Terra Cycle is that it has created several waste collection programs, each called a Brigade, where someone or an organization can help collect items and send them in to
Terra Cycle. Once sent in, the sender receives
Terra Cycle points for the waste that otherwise would have ended up in the landfill
Chesnut Charter Elementary is starting off the new year by participating in the TerraCycle’s Drink Pouch Brigade. The goal of TerraCycle, an international upcycling and recycling company, is to eliminate the idea of waste by creating collection and solution programs for all kinds of typically non-recyclable waste
