May also means TerraCycle® bonus points for all cereal bags. Ask everyone you know who eats cereal to save the empty cereal bag (not the box) for FMSC and take the bags to Coyote Howling. Other items you might typically trash that can be TerraCycled to earn funds for FMSC include: solo cups; plastic beauty and personal care containers such as for lipstick or lip balm, shampoo & conditioner, or hand and body lotions; cleaner triggers, pumps, or caps; laptops and computers.

At TerraCycle, we have a variety of public drop-off recycling programs for traditionally difficult-to-recycle waste streams. Participants interested in starting a public drop-off location in their community simply sign up for a program, set up a collection bin, and begin accepting waste from others in the community.

You can also join one of TerraCycle’s many recycling programs for difficult-to-recycle waste streams, or check out our new premium recycling option called the Zero Waste Box. Simply go to Staples.com and purchase a box, fill it with the appropriate waste, and then ship your full box back to us for recycling.

The results were better than I could have hoped for. Of the nearly 500 pounds of total waste we collected over the weekend, less than 50 went to the landfill. Everything else was recycled, composted, or will be sent to TerraCycle for “upcycling” into new plastic products.

The America of today was born on a cold winter day in Trenton against all odds by the unflinching will of George Washington. Terracycle, an early friend of MagazineLiteracy.org, was founded by Tom Szaky on the premise of turning worm waste into liquid fertilizer sold in recycled soda bottles, and now upcycles millions of consumer packages collected from schools and stores into new products for homes and industries.

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Groups sign up to collect different types of waste packaging, such as drink pouches and certain brands of food packaging. Schools usually receive 2 cents per piece.

Smokers are used to getting grief from the rest of society. Having been bombarded with graphic warnings about your certain death by cancer, frowned and tutted at for blowing filth-clouds at civilians, and forced out into the cold and rain, the least you can expect is to get a nicotine fix in peace. So you light up, inhale, and then with a casual flick of your finger send the filter of your cigarette arcing off into the gutter. Because, well, everyone does that, don’t they? And cig butts – they just kind of, go away, somehow… Don’t they?

Manchester Music Mill 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.

Product packaging is the focus in our current recycling infrastructure. Metal cans, plastic containers and cardboard boxes are top of mind as far as recyclable items go, as these can be collected and processed at low cost and sold as an alternative to virgin material. Most packaging waste is less profitable and more difficult to recycle than these commodities, and some companies are taking it upon themselves to manage their own product packaging waste when the public infrastructure cannot. But why so much focus on packaging when product waste is equally important to consider?

Between now and May 7, Tomball and  Magnolia area residents can recycle used car seats at their local Target store. In celebration of Earth Month, 36 Target stores across Texas are hosting a car seat collection program to help residents reduce their household clutter without sending waste to a landfill. All car seats collected through this program will be recycled through TerraCycle so that each component will see a second life.