The Queen Elizabeth School’s Knights of the Green Table eco club has once again taken the second runner-up prize in TerraCycle Canada’s recent Winter Trash to Cash waste collection contest, which recognizes the top collectors of TerraCycle’s numerous waste streams from across Canada during a two-month period.

Out of all the entries from across the entire country William S. Patterson School in Clandeboye is the ‘little engine that could’, as the school was announced the first runner-up in the TerraCycle Canada Design a Box that Rocks Contest.

TerraCycle Canada Inc.'s GM Luisa Girotto and communications manager Laurent Cassar (in back) to mark one-million drink pouches donated by Canadians to the North York-based company. Students diverted more than 3,000 drink pouches from landfill and donated them to TerraCycle, which "upcycles" non-recyclable materials into 200 new products.    Staff Photo/TAMARA SHEPHARD Most kids toss their non-recyclable drink pouches in the trash. Dixon Grove Junior Middle School students donate their drink pouches by the thousands to TerraCycle, a North York-based company that repurposes them into fashion bags, tote bags, lunch bags and pencil cases. TerraCycle gives the Etobicoke elementary school $0.02 per pouch, proceeds of which will send students to the Humber Arboretum and the Don Valley Brickworks before the end of the school year.