The middle school is part of a contest sponsored by Meijer, Colgate and recycling company, TerraCycle. The last day to vote is Friday. Cast your vote at www.meijer.com/colgate.

Chesbro Music is hosting a free recycle and restring event for local musicians. Sponsored by D’Addario, participants can bring old guitar strings in to recycle, as well as get their guitars restrung with D’Addario NYXL or Nickel Bronze Acoustic strings. The collected strings will be recycled through Playback, D’Addario’s national recycling program.

Zion-Concord Lutheran School in Bensenville is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the Recycled Playground Challenge, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive, Meijer and TerraCycle.

To help reduce waste, the world's largest musical instrument string maker D’Addario & Co., and global recycling organization TerraCycle, have a proposition for musicians: send in your used strings and get redeemable points. The program, titled "Playback," deploys Recycle and Restring events at venues like the four-day Bonnaroo Music + Arts Festival that just wrapped in Tennessee. Cleanup crews are cleaning that up as we speak.

At TerraCycle, we strongly believe that nothing is beyond recycling, and companies, manufacturers and other organizations seeking to take greater responsibility for their part in the waste economy allow us to apply cyclical solutions to an expanding breadth of new product categories.

The school was a winner in a contest sponsored by Terracycle, Colgate and Meijer. To enter the contest, a school needed to participate in the Terracycle recycling program. Then, supporters of the organization could vote online once per day. Dutton Christian supporters registered the most votes.

• NO artificial sweeteners, flavors, colors or preservatives
• NO animal testing or animal ingredients
• Fully recyclable packaging through TerraCycle Tom’s of Maine Recycling Program

Bring your cigarette butt collection in plastic bags to The Woodlands Township Environmental Services office, located at 8203 Millennium Forest Drive. The Woodlands Township has an ongoing partnership with Terracycle® to recycle and compost them.