LONG BEACH - It's the end of lunchtime at Longfellow Elementary School and students are lining up behind purple recycling bins to sort their trash.
The bins are divided into six categories: energy bar wrappers, chip bags, plastic bags, city recycling, juice pouches and cookie wrappers.
"I like that we recycle in our school because it's good for the planet," said 6-year-old Jenna Jacob, as she recycled her cookie wrapper.
For students at Longfellow Elementary at 3800 Olive Ave. in North Long Beach, recycling is more than a lunchtime activity; it's a way of life, said Principal Laurie Murrin.
"It's become part our campus culture," she said.
LONG BEACH - It's the end of lunchtime at Longfellow Elementary School and students are lining up behind purple recycling bins to sort their trash.
The bins are divided into six categories: energy bar wrappers, chip bags, plastic bags, city recycling, juice pouches and cookie wrappers.
"I like that we recycle in our school because it's good for the planet," said 6-year-old Jenna Jacob, as she recycled her cookie wrapper.
For students at Longfellow Elementary at 3800 Olive Ave. in North Long Beach, recycling is more than a lunchtime activity; it's a way of life, said Principal Laurie Murrin.
"It's become part our campus culture," she said.
LONG BEACH - It's the end of lunchtime at Longfellow Elementary School and students are lining up behind purple recycling bins to sort their trash.
The bins are divided into six categories: energy bar wrappers, chip bags, plastic bags, city recycling, juice pouches and cookie wrappers.
"I like that we recycle in our school because it's good for the planet," said 6-year-old Jenna Jacob, as she recycled her cookie wrapper.
For students at Longfellow Elementary at 3800 Olive Ave. in North Long Beach, recycling is more than a lunchtime activity; it's a way of life, said Principal Laurie Murrin.
"It's become part our campus culture," she said.
Since 2001, TerraCycle has risen from a dorm-room start-up selling worm poop-based plant food into a internationally-known growth business. Its focus: providing consumer packaged goods companies and retailers with cause marketing programs and nonprofits with fundraising opportunities.
TerraCycle has over 70,000 schools and charities collecting waste globally and they have earned collectively almost 4 million dollars just by recycling more! Whether you work for a large company, a start-up or an NGO, you'll pick up valuable lessons from Global VP Albe Zakes based on Terracyle's decade of turning "waste into wonder".
TOLEDO--A bag of chips is a popular addition to many kids’ school lunches, but most of those bags end up in the garbage at the end of the lunch period.
Students from the environmental club at Toledo Blessed Sacrament School decided to divert their garbage from landfills and raise money for their school by collecting chip bagsand sending them to a company called TerraCycle. The students have collected more than 16,000 bags, placing them among the top 100 chip bag collectors in the country and earning them money to use for classroom supplies.
TerraCycle’s Chip Bag Brigade, in partnership with Frito-Lay, is a free national program with almost 10,000 participating organizations.
“The best thing about collecting the items is it costs us absolutely nothing," says Blessed Sacrament Brigade coordinator Emily Maciejewski. "We simply take them and send it all to TerraCycle, which even provides the mailing labels. We use boxes from other items sent to the school. It is the easiest way to earn money and not ask parents to buy something or the kids to sell something."
The Chip Bag Brigade is a chance for students to raise money for their club and a way to get students excited about recycling and teach them about the importance of giving back to their community. TerraCycle provides free curricula, craft projects and design contests to help further engage students and promote the educational aspect of the program.
Tom Szaky is the founder of TerraCycle, one of the fastest-growing green companies on the planet. What’s especially amazing about it is its mission: to recycle non-recyclable garbage, from gum to diapers. Find out about how you can help make the impossible possible.
Q:
How did you start TerraCycle ?
A:
I was a freshman at Princeton, and friends of mine were feeding their plants worm poop. These plants grew like mad. I suddenly became fascinated by the idea of waste, so I started a small organic fertilizer business—worm poop—packaged in used soda bottles. TerraCycle was born. Then I began wondering how to transform waste into other products. It’s funny how we started as a poop company, and now our goal is to eliminate the whole idea of waste.
It is on people. Voting has just begun in the final round of our first-ever, annual Great Trentonian Bar Bracket Challenge to name the Greatest Bar of Greater Trenton for 2012.
It’s First N’ Ten vs. Sportsmen’s Pub, two Hamilton bars that fought their way through the field of 32 in very different ways.
Geschäftsidee Windel-Recycling: Jetzt geht es ganz bestimmt wieder mächtig aufwärts mit den Vereinigten Staaten
Die Schwellenländer verläßt der Elan. Egal, dafür kommt neuer Schwung aus den USA. Offenbar haben wir die Amerikaner und ihren Pioniergeist unterschätzt - denn ein junges US-Unternehmen macht jetzt sogar aus benutzten Baby-Höschen Geld. Und am Ende des Tages zählt ja wirklich nur, was hinten herauskommt.
Heute meldet sich mal wieder die Abteilung unheilbarer Optimismus zu Wort. Die hat sich zwar durch schier unablässiges Krankbeten auf allen Kanälen davon überzeugen lassen, dass das gute alte Europa schon bald zum Armenhaus unseres Planeten mutieren wird.
TerraCycle offers support for stores that sign up for snack bag, candy wrapper recycling.
CSP Daily News | March 22, 2012
TRENTON, N.J. -- In an effort to divert more waste from landfills and help businesses engage in their local community, TerraCycle Inc., the leading upcycler and recycler of difficult-to-recycle waste, is encouraging supermarkets and convenience stores to sign up to recycle empty chip bags, candy wrappers and other packaging that accumulates on a daily basis. Each year, millions of these wrappers and bags are needlessly discarded and end up in landfills. The stores can join several programs to collect previously nonrecyclable items and give their customers a way to recycle and earn extra funding for a local charity.
TerraCycle collects more than 40 kinds of products and packaging.
Tom Szaky, CEO of Terracycle, grew up watching Captain Planet. In 2001, as a Princeton University freshman he started his company, Terracycle. TerraCycle’s purpose is to eliminate the idea of waste. They do this by creating national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste.
You can send Terracycle your difficult to recycle waste, and they will turn it into any myriad of items, from handbags to raw materials. Szaky’s story is really inspiring, regardless of setbacks or diversions he has stayed committed to his vision – eliminating waste. In this CNBC video he makes a great point, nowhere in nature is there the idea of garbage, only in the human cycle does garbage exist.
