Drink up: What can you do with all of those empty juice drink pouches after the kids have sucked them dry? You can recycle them for big bucks for charity or fundraising. That's what students at Kammann school in Salinas did recently.

Millington Crisis Center is a top state collector of hair care, skin care, and cosmetic product packaging for the Personal Care and Beauty Brigade®, a free, national recycling program created by Garnier® and TerraCycle®. By collecting used personal care and beauty packaging, the crisis center has helped to divert over 5,300 units of waste from landfills.

There is a solution out there for plastic and other items that cannot be recycled locally. Businesses and some residents in Citrus County are turning to a company called TerraCycle to take items local recycling centers don’t want, according to the Citrus County Chronicle. The company’s goal is to eliminate waste from landfills, and to be able to reduce and recycle everything.

Several tons of ear plugs, beard nets, hair nets, gloves, safety glasses and other typically “unrecyclable” safety and protective gear have found a useful afterlife in TerraCycle’s Zero Waste Box program. Northstar Recycling was one of the first companies to start offering this Safety Equipment and Protective Gear Zero Waste Box to its North American customers when the solution was rolled out two years ago.

Pellston students are being nationally recognized for their hard work and dedication in collecting recyclable plastics. According to a press release from TerraCycle, Pellston Public School is a top state collector of hair care, skin care and cosmetic product packaging for the Personal Care and Beauty Brigade.

Tom Szaky dropped out of Princeton University to start his own business. Of course, people thought he was crazy. They thought he was even crazier when he told them he would be working with liquefied worm poop.

When it comes to recycling, one organization believes Cecil Sly Elementary students and their parents are among the best in the entire state. TerraCycle Inc., recently named the school as a top recycler in Oregon after students and parents collected more than 3,000 empty beauty products containers as part of the Personal Care and Beauty Brigade, a national recycling contest.

David D. Simons is the global digital media marketing manager for TerraCycle in Trenton, New Jersey. It’s a private small business that recycles hard-to-recycle waste into a variety of affordable, sustainable consumer products and industrial applications. The practice of using materials that would normally wind up in the landfill to become raw materials for a second, third or more generation of saleable goods is known as ‘upcycling.’

Ripon College is a top state collector of hair care, skin care and cosmetic product packaging for the Personal Care and Beauty Brigade, a free, national recycling program created by Garnier and TerraCycle. By collecting used personal care and beauty packaging, the college has helped to divert 8,300 units of waste from landfills.