In addition to nutrition, a growing number of consumers are finding that there are other aspects of breakfast that are important. For them, making the most of breakfast includes watching how they spend their money and not wasting anything they buy. To help, here are some tips on how to get the most out of your breakfast—and your money.
In addition to nutrition, a growing number of consumers are finding that there are other aspects of breakfast that are important. For them, making the most of breakfast includes watching how they spend their money and not wasting anything they buy. To help, here are some tips on how to get the most out of your breakfast—and your money.
In addition to nutrition, a growing number of consumers are finding that there are other aspects of breakfast that are important. For them, making the most of breakfast includes watching how they spend their money and not wasting anything they buy. To help, here are some tips on how to get the most out of your breakfast—and your money.
Chatter filled Wassom Middle School’s cafeteria Aug. 28 as members of the Ecology Club worked together to sort, clean and compile the recyclable goods the school has been collecting since the start of the semester. The 24 club members, with ages ranging from 10 to 13, rolled chip bags, stacked Lunchables trays and bunched Capri Sun pouches in order to compress as many of them into prepaid boxes to meet the weight requirements to earn money for their club and their school.
Cigarette butts are the most littered item in the world, and the city of New Orleans has taken action to collect the incessant waste. The international recycling and upcycling company TerraCycle, Trenton, New Jersey, launched its first citywide cigarette butt recycling receptacles program in British Columbia, making New Orleans the first U.S. city to participate in a large-scale recycling effort, according to TerraCycle.
Sunset School helped divert 3,964 units of lunch-kit waste from landfills this past school year, making it the second-highest collector of such waste in the state. The school has been involved with the Lunch Kit Brigade since October 2012. The Lunch Kit Brigade is one of the programs that TerraCycle, an upcycling and recycling company, offers.
Holy Family Catholic College students have turned breakfast into money for their college. They are amongst the top rated collectors of cereal bags in the MOM Brands Cereal Bag Brigade, a national recycling plan. Schools earn points for just about every unit of waste they collect and send to TerraCycle, which recycles the traditionally non-recyclable waste into new materials, a news release stated. To date, the students have diverted 1,197 units of cereal bag waste from landfills. The points are redeemed for charitable gifts or a cash donation to the nonprofit or college of their decision.
After transforming more than 1,500 pounds of recycled personal care waste into a one-of-a-kind Garnier Green Garden in Harlem and overhauling a garden at a special needs school in the Bronx, Garnier and TerraCycle took their eco efforts on the road with the “Where Should Our Garden Grow?” campaign to reward one recipient with a new community garden.
Efforts to recycle packaging from student lunches have earned Warm Springs Intermediate School recognition by the TerraCycle recycling company. The company says the school is one of West Virginia’s top recyclers of lunch kits—a pre-packaged meal that some students bring from home. Seven schools across the state participate in the program.
Brody Johnson was selected as the recipient based on his work with "terracycling" at WES. Terracycling is the "upcycling" of certain hard-to-recycle items such as empty yogurt containers, juice pouches and glue sticks. Jen Royal is an aid to Johnson and volunteers helping Johnson collect, sort, count, and ship all the plastic items to TerraCycle, a recycling company.
