The Bedford County school’s program, done in conjunction with TerraCycle, promotes recycling items not typically thought of as recyclables: drink pouches, chip bags, used writing instruments and Elmer’s glue containers. Recycling can be gross. Imagine encountering tobacco juice spat into an empty soda can. Nasty. Fifth-graders Chris Akers, 11, and Jason Williams, 10, scrunch their noses at the recollection. Imagine the aroma of a gallon jug bearing a crusty milk residue that's traveled well past sour. Phew. Fifth-graders Hannah Nichols, 10, and Hannah Wood, 11, said students have learned to leave all the milk jugs capped. And it turns out that mostly empty yogurt cups and drink pouches draw pesky swarms of fruit flies. Bring 'em on. None of it matters much to the recycling brigades at Huddleston Elementary School in Bedford County who don disposable vinyl gloves and brave these conditions to participate in the school's comprehensive and moneymaking recycling program. Working with a New Jersey-based company called TerraCycle, the students recycle many items not typically collected. Such as potato chip bags, glue sticks, baggies, cookie packages, drink pouches, candy wrappers, even writing utensils. And more. The K-5 school began its collaboration with TerraCycle in October 2010. Since then, students at Huddleston Elementary — all 214 are invited to participate in one way or another — have kept an estimated 65,000 items out of landfills and earned nearly $1,300 for the school's PTA account. "Anybody can help," said Amy Mallow, a teacher of fourth and fifth grade history and reading who coordinates the school's TerraCycle program. "Usually, I'm flooded with kids who want to help. They are quick to volunteer." For one thing, volunteering can get them out of class for a little while. But more altruistic motives play a role too. "It helps out the community," Nichols said. "It helps the Earth and keeps it from being polluted." TerraCycle transforms the collected packaging into new products such as tote bags, recycling bins, watering cans and backpacks. Lauren Taylor, a spokeswoman for the company, said Huddleston Elementary is one of the top collectors in the company's nationwide programs. That money has helped buy school supplies, contributed toward a fundraising Valentine's Ball, funded a family fitness night and allowed a theater group to visit the school to perform a program about Martin Luther King Jr. "Our recycling efforts at Huddleston Elementary School have exceeded our expectations," said Principal Aprille Monroe. "Our students actively help save space in landfills, energy consumption and natural resources," Monroe said. "Teachers have the added benefit of offering hands-on lessons so students understand why we recycle. Recycling has become a way of life at Huddleston and students are taking the message home to their families." Parent volunteers help collect items to bring to school and the students sort materials consumed at school. The custodians participate, too, by keeping an eye on kids headed toward garbage cans with a potentially recyclable item. "The janitors will catch you if you try to sneak it into the trash," Wood said, smiling. For more information about TerraCycle, go to www.terracycle.net.

TerraCycling began as a process that turns worn waste products and packages into reused containers using fertilizer, worms, and compostation. In 2007, TerraCycle changed their business plan slightly. They began producing pouches, bags, and accessories made from up-cycled drink pouches and candy wrappers. Larger items that were non-recyclable were also up-cycled and used to create flowerpots, plastic lumber, pavers, benches, and garbage pails. The goal of TerraCycle is to eliminate the idea of waste by creating collection and solution systems for anything that would normally be sent to a landfill. Right now, the company makes affordable, eco-friendly products from a wide range of different non-recyclable waste matters. A TerrraCycling program was established in Berlin in 2010 as an effort to promote the preservation of Maryland’s natural resources. TerraCycle is a company that makes affordable, eco-friendly products from an assortment of different non-recyclable waste matters - turning something useless into something userfull. The company runs a free national collection program that pays non-profit organizations, like Grow Berlin Green, for their waste. Grow Berlin Green is a campaign set to establish the town of Berlin, MD as a model community for participatory environmental protection, conservation, and smart growth policy and practice. Grow Berlin Green educates and engages citizens, schools, businesses, and public officials to achieve measureable impacts on a range of priority issues including: increasing conservation efforts, improving natural resources management, reducing waste, and increasing recycling efforts. “Currently, there are two bins set up at Burbage Park on Williams Street with the other recycling containers,” said Kathy Winte, a leader of the local TerraCycling initiative, “People can deposit their TerraCycle wrappers and then it will be sorted and sent in.” “With this program, closer to 800 pounds of non-recyclable materials have been kept out of the landfill,” continued Winte. TerraCycling applies two different applications to these items. The first is post-consumer, where they process it into paving stones, plastic coolers, flower pots, trash bins, etc. The second is pre-consumer, where they obtain the rolls of packing material from corporations and they make tote bags, pencil cases, notebook covers, and so forth. “We have also partnered with the local schools and some salons, Robin Walters and Headlines. The money that Grow Berlin Green receives gets turned around and goes right back towards sustainable practices,” said Winte. The goal of the campaign is dedicated to encouraging local communities to protect our eco-systems, conserve area resources, and build our towns by using safe and smart practices. The bins are located in the John Howard Burbage Park next to the electric company facility. A list of items, shown below, can be made into up-cycled items when treated properly. The following items can be placed inside the TerraCycling bins for collection: -Drink pouches -Yogurt cups -Lunchable lunch kits -Candy wrappers -Cookie wrappers -Plastic wrappers -Diaper wrappers -Personal product wrappers -Energy bar wrappers -Chip bags -Toasted chip bags -Kashi packaging -Toothpaste tubes -Toothbrushes -Aveeno tubes -Scotch tape dispensers -Corks -Spread containers For more information about TerraCycling or recycling efforts in Berlin, visit the Grow Berlin Green website. Visit the TerraCycle website to learn more about trash that can be TerraCycled.

Schools render plenty of waste products that’s carelessly gotten rid of when it can be recycled. An extraordinary recycling program known as TerraCycle has brought about a major change in the recycling routines of schools in the United States. This method takes the initiative to recover food packaging items that are difficult to recycle and in addition pays schools for their hard work. According to a MichigansThumb.com report, the plan awards points to schools based on the amount of recyclable goods provided to TerraCycle. The advent of single-serve food items has amplified the amount of disposable waste and added to an evergrowing pile of detrimental waste products in landfills.

Beginning next week, the CCHS Environmental Field Studies Group has teamed up with Terracycle, a global program that aims to eliminate waste with recycling and upcycling. The EFSG is collecting the following items: all brands and sizes of candy wrappers, Kashi products and wrappers, cereal bag liners, writing Instruments such as pens, markers, sharpies, dry-erase markers, pencils, mechanical pencils that are dry and do not work. All of the items collected will be sent to TerraCycle, which takes items, previously thought to be unusable again - such as a cereal box liner - and converts them into useful products. In addition, two cents is earned for each item collected, with the money earned by the CCHS EFSG Club will help a charity of the club’s choice. The charity has not yet been determined. Collections begin this week, so gather your candy wrappers and old pens so you can drop them off at one of the many TerraCycle boxes set up around the campus when school reopens Monday.

Dear Parents and Fellow Roadrunners, Have you heard of 5th grade’s G21 project that is underway? Here’s our plan: We are recycling three different brigades: 1. Empty glue sticks and glue bottles 2. Empty disposable tape dispenser rolls 3. Empty beauty product bottles/packaging (This one is a biggie–it includes the following: lipstick cases, mascara tubes, eye shadow cases, shampoo bottles, conditioner bottles, bronzer cases, foundation packaging, body wash containers, soap tubes, soap dispensers, lotion dispensers, shaving foam tubes (no cans),

Students and staff at Bain Elementary School raised more than $3,700 for the school through the TerraCycling program. The program allows schools to collect items like juice pouches, wrappers, empty glue sticks and writing instruments and submit them for recycling. The school collected more than 114,000 juice pouches and more than 19,000 chip bags to earn $3,749.38. To learn more about the program, visit www.terracycle.net.

Schools create quite a lot of waste products that is thoughtlessly gotten rid of when it can be recycled. An exceptional recycling strategy labeled as TerraCycle has brought about a huge change in the recycling behavior of schools in the United States. This program takes the initiative to recover food packaging goods that are difficult to recycle and in addition pays schools for their hard work. As per a MichigansThumb.com report, the program awards points to schools dependant upon the quantity of recyclable goods delivered to TerraCycle. The arrival of single-serve food products has inflated the quantity of disposable waste and led to a rising pile of harmful waste material in landfills.

Birch Street and Cherry Street Elementary schools' Parent Teacher Organization discovered one man’s trash really could be another man’s treasure. A program collecting items ordinarily ending in the garbage has paid for a portion of the organization’s funding over the past seven years. Students at the two schools collected specific trash items for the “Cash for Trash” program through TerraCycle, an organization recycling items typically hard to recycle, and turning them into useable items.

Birch Street and Cherry Street elementary schools' Parent Teacher Organization discovered one man's trash could really be another man's treasure. A program collecting items ordinarily ending in the garbage has paid for a portion of the organization's funding over the past seven years.

GAINES TOWNSHIP — Fifth-grader Kyle Dronkers kept a straight face while talking about recycling used toothbrushes to help the planet and raise money for Dutton Christian School. “Well, I wouldn’t recommend using them,” deadpanned Kyle, 10, as he flashed a toothy grin. But the grungy brushes will become eco-friendly products after they are shipped to Terracycle, a New Jersey-based company known for tackling previously un-recycled or hard-to-recycle waste. The Dutton students were recognized as being among TerraCycle’s top toothbrush and toothpaste-tube collectors for bringing in 1,800 items for the Colgate Oral Care Brigade.