WEST MILFORD — Aphsawa Elementary School is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the fourth annual Recycled Playground Challenge, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive, ShopRite and recycling pioneer TerraCycle. Aphsawa will earn one ‘Playground Credit’ for each unit - or two pounds of used, post-consumer oral care products and packaging of oral care waste, such as empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers - sent to TerraCycle for recycling. An additional credit is earned for every online vote cast for the school at www.terracycle.com/colgateshopriteplayground2017 before June 30. 

ShopRite and Colgate-Palmolive are staging their fourth annual "Colgate & ShopRite Recycled Playground Challenge," this year offering more secondary prizes than ever before. The contest will award a $50,000 playground made entirely of recycled oral care waste to the Northeastern school that earns the most "playground credits" from March 16 through June 30. Schools earn credits by getting their students and other constituents to vote on a promotional page within recycling company TerraCycle's website or by submitting oral care waste to the recycler (using free-shipping labels downloaded from terracycle.com).

OAK RIDGE — Paradise Knoll Green Team is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the fourth annual Recycled Playground Challenge, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive (“Colgate”), the global oral care leader; ShopRite, which has more than 260 stores in the Northeast; and recycling pioneer TerraCycle. Paradise Knoll Green Team will earn one (1) ‘Playground Credit’ for each unit ("unit" defined as 0.02 lbs of used, post-consumer oral care products and packaging) of oral care waste, such as empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers, sent to TerraCycle for recycling. An additional credit is earned for every online vote cast for the school at www.terracycle.com/colgateshopriteplayground2017 before June 30. The grand prize playground will be made from recycled oral care waste collected through the Colgate Oral Care Recycling Program, a free, national program operated by Colgate and TerraCycle.

East Amwell Township School is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the fourth annual Recycled Playground Challenge, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive (“Colgate”), the global oral care leader; ShopRite, which has more than 260 stores in the Northeast; and recycling p ioneer TerraCycle. East Amwell Township School will earn one (1) ‘Playground Credit’ for each unit  (“unit” definedas 0.02 lbs of used, post-consumer oral care products and packaging) of oral care waste, such as empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers, sent to TerraCycle for recycling. An additional credit is earned for every online vote cast for the school at www.terracycle.com/colgateshopriteplayground2017 before June 30, 2017. The grand prize playground will be made from recycled oral care waste collected through the Colgate® Oral Care Recycling Program, a free, national program operated by Colgate and TerraCycle. Full set of rules for the 2017 “Recycled Playground Challenge” can be viewed: www.terracycle.com/colgateshopriteplayground2017 “Students in grades pre-school through 8 collect materials at home, in their classrooms and even in extra-curricular after school activities because they are so committed to helping the Earth by giving everyday trash another life at TerraCycle,” said Sharon Ernst, 5th grade teacher at East Amwell Township School. “Throughout the community there are collections at the Municipal Building and various businesses, as well!” This year’s Recycled Playground Challenge launched March 12, 2017 among schools throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut and Maryland that participate in the Colgate Oral Care Recycling Program. East Amwell Township School has diverted 764,000 pieces of waste through TerraCycle so far.  Ms. Ernst continued, “TerraCycle and the participating recycling programs for the collections have helped us to afford compost bins, native plants for butterflies and birds, gardening tools for the students, bleachers, a green house, etc. We could really use any votes that the community can give to us. We would love to win, to show that collecting makes a difference in the community.” The Colgate Oral Care Recycling Program is an ongoing activity, open to any individual, family, school or community group.  For each piece of waste sent in using a pre-paid shipping label, participants earn money toward donations to the school or charity of their choice.  To learn more about the program, please visit www.terracycle.com/colgate.

Schools will have a chance to win a recycled playground (like the one pictured here) by sending TerraCycle their dental waste, such as toothpaste tubes, dental floss containers and toothbrushes.COURTESY OF TERRACYCLE TRENTON >> TerraCycle, the city’s recycle-everything company, is challenging schools to send them their dental waste for a chance to win a playground.  Of course — in true TerraCycle fashion — the playground will also be made from recycled oral waste products.  For the 2017 Recycled Playground Challenge, TerraCycle is teaming up once again with Colgate and ShopRite for the fourth consecutive year. The recycling battle starts this Sunday, March 12 and ends June 30, 2017. Participating schools will receive one (1) “Playground Credit” for each unit, defined as 0.02 pounds, of discarded toothpaste tubes, dental floss containers and toothbrushes sent to TerraCycle. Credits can also be earned by community members voting for schools online at terracycle.com/colgateshopriteplayground2017.