Mt. Carmel Elementary School and Nexus Energy Center were the top collectors in a recent statewide recycling contest. Mt. Carmel students and community residents participated in the Snack Bag Brigade, a free, national recycling program that Hain Celestial Group Inc. and TerraCycle originated. Collaborating with Nexus Energy Center, Mt. Carmel students retrieved 21,000 packaging bags for chips and other snacks.
A brand new playground was awarded Tuesday to the students at BelovED Community Charter School of Jersey City through a promotion with Shoprite, Colgate and TerraCycle.
On the surface, the new playground that was unveiled yesterday morning at the BelovED Community Charter School in Jersey City looks like any other in the city. It receives the same reaction from kids, who looked at the slide and the monkey bars with wide eyes and big smiles. The playground, which is the first for the school, was built using recycled toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes and floss containers. The school itself won the playground as part of the Recycled Playground Challenge, a competition that was set up by Colgate, ShopRite and the recycling company TerraCycle, which is based in Trenton.
A brand new playground was awarded Tuesday to the students at BelovED Community Charter School of Jersey City. The students were the winners of the “Recycled Playground Challenge,” courtesy of Colgate, TerraCycle and ShopRite Supermarkets. The school earned a total of 178,303 Playground Credits by recycling waste and through online voting by teachers and parents.
On the surface, the new playground that was unveiled Tuesday morning at the BelovED Community Charter School looks like any other in the city. It definitely receives the same reaction from kids, who looked at the slide and the monkey bars with wide eyes, and wide smiles. The school playground, which is the first for the school, was built using recycled toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes and floss containers. The school itself won the playground as part of the Recycled Playground Challenge, a competition that was set up by Colgate, ShopRite, and the recycling company TerraCycle, which is based in Trenton.
Kraft closes TerraCycle and community howls. Many tales from Southwestern literature and legend stand behind the shop for a cause name, Coyote Howling. A favorite of mine, explains how Coyote disobeyed The Creator who gave him the privilege of hanging the moon. Coyote disobeyed and lives forever with the failure, howling at the moon. It was such a howl that emanated from throats around the community as word spread that cheese packaging and dairy tubs would no longer be accepted by TerraCycle® because Kraft Foods closed the funding.
The scariest thing about Halloween is the waste! Costumes that you might only use once, candy that comes in individual wrappers, and pumpkins only used to carve scary faces on them and then tossed, all these things add up. Here are a few tips for making your Day-After-Halloween less wasteful:
In addition to saving the fresh water mussels, the environmental enthusiast Mrs. Wistriech has many other brainstorms for the school in order for it to be more environmentally friendly. For example, she wants our school to be legally certified as a “Green School,” which is a school that goes above and beyond merely caring for the environment. She has many plans for doing so, which include a recycling program called TerraCycle and composting.
nce you devour your sweet treats, the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher wants your trash. In a sea of aquatic stuffed animals and aquarium branded attire at the gift shop you find candy wrapper clutches. The aquarium works with several companies who reuse hard-to-recycle items.
Halloween doesn’t only bring out the ghosts and zombies — it’s also full of plastic wrappers, one-time costumes and wasted pumpkins, but some simple tips can help you make your holiday a little more sustainable.
