Colvin Run Elementary School on Feb. 4 launched a new food-donation program.
During lunch periods, students will collect unopened food – including milk, yogurt, chips, and fruit – and place them into specially marked coolers and bins. The food, which previously would have been thrown away, will be delivered twice weekly to Reston Interfaith
As many of you have heard, E-Club has set-up new recycling centers in the cafeteria in an attempt to help our school become a waste free environment. Many of the materials that students and faculty can recycle are the same, but these stations make everything more centralized.
Hard plastics, such as utensils and yogurt containers, can be recycled, as well as cans and glass. The recycling centers also have appropriate bins for granola bar wrappers, candy wrappers, juice pouches, chip bags, and Ziploc bags.
The new drinks have 100% vitamin C, only has 40 calories per pouch and still has half the sugar than the leading kids’ drinks. I love the new packaging that is so easy to travel with and has really great kid-friendly messaging which includes sustainable farming, organics and TerraCycle partnership.
What is TerraCycle? A program that upcycles and recycles traditionally non-recycable waste (including drink pouches, chip bags, tooth brushes and many more) into a large variety of consumer products. See what I mean? Honest Tea is definitely standing behind their message for social responsibility and commitment to great products for a brighter future.
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While most of his peers were at the library, or the bar, college freshmen Tom Szaky was busy launching a business out of his dorm room. For his first product he turned worm-poop into fertilizer as a way to transform waste into something useful. Since then he’s turned that first product into a multi-million dollar business
Terracycle, with clients including Walmart and Home Depot. Inspiyr spoke with Tom about the mission of Terracycle, his favorite type of trash, and some advice for budding entrepreneurs or anyone looking to achieve their dreams.
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Clayton Snyder, who graduated in June from Lock Haven University, participated in a study abroad program, spending February to June in South Korea.
Snyder, a senior recreation management major with a concentration in environmental/international studies, had received a $4,000 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study in South Korea.
The son of Bob and Kim Snyder of Lebanon, Snyder is a 2008 graduate of Cedar Crest High School.
In South Korea, he attended Chungnam National University in Daejon, where he studied the Korean language and culture.
The Gilman International Scholarship Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is administered by the Institute of International Education. Recipients are chosen by a competitive selection process.
TerraCycle's UpCycling (recycling) Program comes to Franklin County to benefit the United Way of the Tri-Valley Area. The United Way supports non-profit community programs and volunteer efforts across the region; TerraCycle offers a wonderful way to support this organization in its efforts.
Are you tired of your trash piling up? Would you like to be able to recycle more products? TerraCycle's goal is to eliminate the idea of waste by creating collection and solution systems for anything that today must be sent to a landfill. They do this by creating national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste. TerraCycle then converts the collected waste into a wide variety of products and materials. With more than 20 million people collecting waste in over 20 countries TerraCycle has diverted billions of units of waste and used them to create over 1,500 different products available at major retailers ranging from Walmart to Whole Foods Market.
Melanie Ziomek has always been an avid recycler and is so adamant about it her sister jokingly calls her “super recycling nerd.”
“I told her I was going to make her a recycling nerd cape,” said her sister, Tammy Kozicki.
Ziomek recycles everything she can at Normal’s drop boxes, but was concerned about all the products that can’t be recycled.
“I realized how many ink cartridges my church (Word of Faith) and the company I work for (Central Illinois Grain Inspection) were going through,” Ziomek said.
She started collecting them in hopes of finding an outlet — and she finally did last fall.
It’s called Terracycle, a Trenton, N.J., company founded in 2001 by Tom Szaky, someone equally passionate about finding uses for items that can’t be recycled.
Honesty has been on my mind lately. My dashboard dictionary defines “honest” as “free of deceit and untruthfulness; sincere”. For a company to use such an adjective in their name, they better mean it!
I am not a big fan of juice boxes or pouches. The convenience is great for packing school lunches or traveling, but honestly, and we are being honest here, I want my kids to drink water. The other concern for me is disposing of the packaging.
Honest Tea has partnered with Terracycle to solve this problem or at least alleviate it:
Every year millions of drink pouches end up in garbage and landfills. Honest Kids and TerraCycle are working together to change that. As eco-friendly innovator, TerraCycle converts the drink pouches into unique fashion bags, tote bags, pencil cases, and other fun items for kids and adults.
This a great idea, but you need to collect 500 pouches before you turn them in, and Terracycle will compensate $0.02 per pouch to your organization. That’s a lot of pouches!
Honesty is an important value, perhaps the most important. It defines our personal integrity. As a marketing term, I don’t have a problem with it’s use by Honest Tea. The fact Coca-Cola owns part of the company makes it easy to find it in convenience stores and other places reaching a larger audience. There’s always balance when it comes to honesty.
Disclosure: I was sent free samples of these products to review. No prior assurances were given as to whether the review would be positive or negative.