Students at a Michigan elementary school are raising money for their school, while keeping hard-to-recycle materials out of the waste stream. It’s called “upcycling” and at West Ottawa’s Pine Creek Elementary School, it’s becoming part of the school’s culture. “One of our focuses is incorporating environmental education into our curriculum and raise kids’ awareness,” said Principal Dave Gough. “We wanted to think about how we can problem solve and have a positive impact at the same time.” The school’s efforts are run through TerraCycle, a company that finds new uses for trash, turning otherwise unusable waste into things like coolers, picture frames and cleaning supplies. Students, teachers and staff members collect things like food wrappers and juice boxes and turn them over to TerraCycle, which transforms them into other, usable items.

Patricia Sturla, experta en imagen, moda y belleza, estará hoy jueves, viernes y sábado en El Paso para promover productos de belleza biodegradables e inocuos para el medio ambiente, sin dejar residuos de jabón, informó una portavoz de la gira The Cleaner Greener (El Limpiador más Verde), en un comunicado de prensa. Con este recorrido, se pretende orientar al público consumidor sobre maneras más amenas y divertidas acerca de la basura y los desperdicios, así como maneras de influir positivamente en el ambiente, agregó la portavoz, en una declaración escrita.

Personal care and beauty products account for one-third of all landfill waste, spurring Garnier to up the ante of its sustainability program and partner with TerraCycle, Inc. to collect millions of pieces of packaging waste from the L’Oreal owned brand of hair care, skin care, and cosmetic lines.

Garnier have partnered with the awesome leader of “Upcycling,” Terracycle to create a “Beauty Brigade” program. Anyone can join this program for free. You simply sign-up, collect all your empty personal care packaging (you can also collect all your friends and neighbor’s too,) package it and send it in free-of-charge to Terracycle. Garnier foots the cost of shipping, so you simply download a free-shipping label.

L'Oreal's Garnier brand has swung into action to recycle packaging from all personal care and beauty products, which it says accounts for one third of all landfill waste. A recently unveiled program, called the Personal Care and Beauty Brigade, is a national (and soon-to-be international) program that will collect all hair care, skin care and cosmetic packaging, regardless of brand. This packaging will be upcycled or recycled by TerraCycle into eco-friendly playgrounds as well as other consumer products. The program coincides with the launch of Garnier's new Pure Clean line to emphasize the brand's sustainability efforts. TerraCycle specializes in making consumer products from post-consumer materials. By signing up for the Brigade (www.terracycle.net), individuals or groups can collect packaging and ship it to TerraCycle free of charge.