This past year, Cleveland Elementary students earned more than $1,700 for their school by collecting and recycling the drink pouches they use at home and in the lunchroom. In collecting more than 18,000 drink pouches, Cleveland reached the second level of a contest sponsored by TerraCycle and Capri Sun’s Drink Pouch Brigade.
Have your kids shown an interest in the recycling movement? We recently had the opportunity to check out these neat bags from TerraCycle and while I was surprised at first (didn’t expect it to be quite so “recycled”) they are a ton of fun and my daughter just loves them! We got the Goodness Grapeness shoulder strap bag which she has used on several beach trips so far! She also got this fun pencil case (pictured above) that is made out of recycled Capri Sun packages. How fun is this?! Plus, it is a large sized pencil case so you can fit a complete box of pencils plus more inside of it!
Chatter filled Wassom Middle School’s cafeteria Aug. 28 as members of the Ecology Club worked together to sort, clean and compile the recyclable goods the school has been collecting since the start of the semester. The 24 club members, with ages ranging from 10 to 13, rolled chip bags, stacked Lunchables trays and bunched Capri Sun pouches in order to compress as many of them into prepaid boxes to meet the weight requirements to earn money for their club and their school.
Sunset School helped divert 3,964 units of lunch-kit waste from landfills this past school year, making it the second-highest collector of such waste in the state. The school has been involved with the Lunch Kit Brigade since October 2012. The Lunch Kit Brigade is one of the programs that TerraCycle, an upcycling and recycling company, offers.
The kids at the Shawmont School in the Philadelphia School District have earned more than $2,000 by collecting drink pouches and sending them to TerraCycle, the Trenton, N.J., company that takes difficult-to-recycle packaging and “upcycles” it into products.
When Tiffany Threadgould moved into her
Fairmount apartment in 2012, the first thing she did was trash the place. But for Threadgould, 40, that didn't mean making a mess. On the contrary, it's all about discovering beauty - or at least function - in objects that might otherwise be destined for the landfill.
Deer Crossing Elementary School students earned more than $700 for their school by reaching the second level in a recycling contest sponsored by TerraCycle and Capri Sun, according to an Aug. 11 news release. Students collected more than 18,000 drink pouches in the free Drink Pouch Brigade program, which rewards people for collecting and sending waste to TerraCycle for recycling or upcycling (taking something no longer needed or wanted and turning it into an item of higher value, like salvaged wood becoming a table).
Students and teachers at Ranchvale Elementary School have found a way to recycle their lunches, or more specifically, their lunch containers.
Ranchvale was named the number one recycler of lunch kits — lunch kits including Lunchables and similar pre-packaged lunch products — in New Mexico by Trenton, New Jersey-based recycler TerraCycle Inc., according to a press release from the company.
Albe Zakes Global VP of Media, and Dan Harris - Director of Zero Waste Box Sales were featured on The Weather Channel segment "AMHQ" regarding the new TerraCycle Show "Human Resources"
Iroquois Middle School students earned money and prizes for their school by collecting and recycling the drink pouches they use at home and in the lunchroom. Students have just reached the second level of TerraCycle and Capri Sun's Drink Pouch Brigade milestone contest by collecting more than 18,000 drink pouches. They've earned close to $2,000 for their school by collecting the drink pouches.
The Drink Pouch Brigade is a free recycling program that rewards people for collecting and sending their waste to TerraCycle to be recycled or upcycled. The Milestone Program began in September 2013 when Capri Sun added prizes for collecting certain amounts. Now, in addition to the money they earn for each piece of waste collected, participants can win prizes made from recycled drink pouches, such as park benches, recycling bins, a playground and other fun rewards.
"The Milestone Program is meant to inspire individuals and organizations to collect more waste while receiving prizes for their achievements," said Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle. "It is rewarding to see the students and administration get so involved in making this work. It's an incredible achievement to have kept so many pouches out of the waste stream."
Thousands of other schools across the United States participate in the Drink Pouch Brigade. To learn more about the program or to sign up, visit
www.terracycle.com. The program is free to any interested organization or individual, and all shipping costs are paid. In addition, for each piece of waste received, participants earn money for a charity of their choice.
