Basil Bandwagon is a collector of cereal bags in the MOM Brands Cereal Bag Brigade, a free, national recycling program created by MOM Brands and TerraCycle. By collecting MOM Brands cereal packaging, they help divert cereal bags from landfills. Clinton residents can help keep additional cereal bags and liners out of the garbage by dropping off empty bags Monday- Saturday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The collected challenge materials will be recycled through TerraCycle, an organization focusing on non-traditional recycling. “We hope everyone in our community will get excited about this,” she said. “It’s an easy and effective way to keep material out of landfills and put them in line to be recycled and reused. It’s not a far-out concept and the whole community can get behind it.”
A program through
New Jersey recycling company TerraCycle also allows the school to collect bags of used Capri Sun pouches and turn them in for cash. They netted about $100 last year. Some students are in a hurry to get to recess and try to bypass the recycling or compost by stuffing all of their waste into a plastic bag and dropping it in the trash bin. “There's a little bit of dumpster-diving involved,” Stamatiou said, reaching one gloved hand in to fish a juice box out of the compost bin. “But they do really well. The little kids actually do better than the older kids.”
Known as the Cigarette Waste Brigade, TerraCycle’s effort to make recycling cigarettes easier for smokers is a first-of-its-kind program according to Albe Zakes, VP of communications at the company, who told Fusion that “before TerraCycle cigarettes weren’t recyclable.” Since kicking off in New Orleans, the Cigarette Waste Brigade can now be found in cities nationwide, as well as internationally in Australia, the U.K., France, and Brazil. To date in the United States, TerraCycle has set
up over 7,000 cigarette recycling bins and more than 38 million butts having been collected.
Dixon Elementary is a participant in the Capri Sun Milestone Contest and is in the running to win a playground by collecting and recycling used drink pouches. The contest is hosted by Capri Sun and TerraCycle. The school has collected 111,373 units to date and hopes to be the first to reach the 200,000 mark to win the playground made from recycled materials.
With Halloween just weeks away, it's not too early to start working on decorations! Discover how to turn used soda cans into votive-candles with "design junkies" TerraCycle at this installment of Etsy Craft Night.
The TerraCycle design team is headed to the Brooklyn Etsy Labs to lead the October session of Etsy Craft Night. This Thursday, October 1, attendees of the free DIY event will learn to make candle luminaries out of upcycled soda cans. These spooky decorations are a cute and eco-friendly addition to your stoop or windowsill for Halloween.
The Westwood Village Improvement Association, also known as the BID, installed long gray TerraCycle receptacles on street poles earlier this month. The program cost the BID about $1,000, but the recycling company TerraCycle will send the BID money or furniture if officials collect a certain amount of cigarette butts, said Andrew Thomas, executive director of the BID. Workers will empty the receptacles every Monday and ship the waste to TerraCycle, where they will turn the waste into plastic products or furniture, said Michael Gonzalez, ambassador operations manager of the BID.
If they are put into our SSR bins, they will compromise the quality of other plastics recycled with them. Other tidbits of information about waste/recycling can be found in “Make Garbage Great” by Tom Szaky and Albe Zakes.
WHAT'S BEING COLLECTED: *Toothpaste tubes, any brand and size (toothbrushes OK too) *Baby food pouches and caps (any brand) *Energy bar wrappers (any brand but only energy bars—no other wrappers please)
