Countryside Elementary School took second place in the Colgate and ShopRite Recycled Playground Challenge. In the challenge, participating schools earned credits for sending in items such as toothpaste tubes and floss containers to TerraCycle, a company repurposing products that are difficult to recycle. Countryside earned 500 tote bags, pencil cases, pens and a gift certificate of $750 to ShopRite for their hard work.

An old tooth-brush doesn't necessarily evoke a feeling of possibility, but perhaps it should. A contest held by Colgate-Palmolive — in collaboration with ShopRite and recycling company TerraCycle — showed students that old oral care products could be made into something new.