Terracycle <http://www.myatlantamommy.com/2009/12/terracycle.html>  is a fantastic organization which takes used wrappers and turns them into some super cool stuff! They are always coming up with fun and cool ways to recycle, but they also have come up with a way (actually 6 ways) Moms can go green, reduce waste at home, AND raise money for their kids school and/or favourite charity.

Terracycle <http://www.myatlantamommy.com/2009/12/terracycle.html>  is a fantastic organization which takes used wrappers and turns them into some super cool stuff! I am happy and proud to announce Terracycle recently invited me to join their Blogger Club! Yay! AND they have offered to do a cool Back to School giveaway for My Atlanta Mommy readers, which I will let you know about very soon!

Terracycle <http://www.myatlantamommy.com/2009/12/terracycle.html>  is a fantastic organization which takes used wrappers and turns them into some super cool stuff! They are always coming up with fun and cool ways to recycle, but they also have come up with a way (actually 6 ways) Moms can go green, reduce waste at home, AND raise money for their kids school and/or favourite charity.

If you think you've reduced your carbon footprint all you can, think again. By looking at the problem of landfills from two sides – not putting stuff in them and taking stuff out of them – a company founded in 2001 by then 19-year-old Tom Szaky has gone well beyond the blue recycling bins we all know and use (don't we?) to upcycling, the reuse of trash. It all started with worms and a Princeton Business Plan contest. Now his company, Terracycle <http://www.terracycle.net/>  boasts that it has collected almost 2 billion units of waste and manufactures 178 products using recycled bits and pieces. He has engaged children and nonprofits in collecting everything from candy wrappers to Huggies, and paid them almost $1 million for doing so. Back to the worms: While looking for an idea to enter into the business plan contest, Szaky was introduced to composting worms: They eat garbage and expel very rich fertilizer. That became his business plan: an organic fertilizer company. But in the course of years, it morphed into an overall "garbage in, good stuff out" plan. The company began to make things out of candy wrappers and e-waste, things like waste baskets, picture frames, toys, and tote bags.

You’re probably wondering how in the heck recycling is going to support our troops. Bring in Terracycle. This company takes bottles, snack wrappers, toilet paper wrappers, Huggies packaging, etc and turns them into products.

Thanks to one of the Mega Sales at Kroger, our school is now raking in the pennies. How? By doing something that's good for the environment:  recycling. It all started when I bought five packages of Capri Suns at Kroger to fulfill part of a rebate I was working on. On the back of the package was information about Terracycle <http://www.terracycle.net/> , a company that has kept over 1.2 billion pieces of trash out of landfills while fashioning super cool backpacks, pencil cases, tote bags, trash cans, even cork boards! Even more amazing to me was that they would donate $ .02 per pouch collected, to the school or charity of my choice!