Another way to reduce your waste is through Terracycle. Terracycle is an international recycling and upcycling company that will collect items that are normally hard to recycle. For example, packaging and products such as empty make-up containers, cheese and dairy packaging, cleaner packaging, drink pouches as well as cell phones, iPods and MP3 players, inkjet and toner cartridges, laptop computers and E-readers

We always encourage parents to recycle their pouch to help reduce waste. Ella’s Kitchen has partnered with TerraCycle to create the Baby Food Pouch Brigade, a free recycling program for baby food pouches and caps. Parents can find out more about how to recycle with Terracycle at ellaskitchen.com

“TerraCycle pays two cents each to a nonprofit for everything — all these weird freaky things you can recycle, like a pen when it’s out of ink, you can send anything you write with,” Lane says. “A lot of people think it sounds too good to be true, a lot of people think that, but they don’t want any money, there’s no down payment or investment, all you need is some sort of device to put your stuff in.”

Your school can sign up for this special program and collect Capri Sun packages from students. The school then sends them in using a pre-paid envelope. In turn the school will get money for the pouches that they submit. Not only does the school make money, it keeps the pouches out of landfills and it teaches students about recyclin

Terracycle is a mail-in recycling program for items that are difficult to recycle through standard processes. Everblue investigated how the program works and decided to try it out. Here’s a recap of how things went – our own case study, if you will!

What is interesting about Terra Cycle is that it has created several waste collection programs, each called a Brigade, where someone or an organization can help collect items and send them in to Terra Cycle. Once sent in, the sender receives Terra Cycle points for the waste that otherwise would have ended up in the landfill

Chesnut Charter Elementary is starting off the new year by participating in the TerraCycle’s Drink Pouch Brigade. The goal of TerraCycle, an international upcycling and recycling company, is to eliminate the idea of waste by creating collection and solution programs for all kinds of typically non-recyclable waste

As part of an ongoing fundraiser with TerraCycle, Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank's staff have been collecting yogurt containers and shampoo bottles in the break room. Three months in, we'd managed to fill up a couple of copy paper boxes.  

Look at the plants closely. If there are discolored leaves, maybe a purple tint, that’s a clue they are not getting what they need, so hit them with some organic fertilizer. There are a couple ways to do that. One is to use a liquid fertilizer like fish emulsion, but I also love a granular type from TerraCycle.

“Encouraging customers to bring in their empty Kiehl’s bottles in return for free products has proved to be very successful, collecting over 1 million bottles since 2009! That said, collecting the items is only half the battle. TerraCycle has been an incredibly valuable partner to us. We’re thrilled that they’re able to upcycle and recycle Kiehl’s empty containers and repurpose waste into innovative products. Since 2009, Kiehl’s has collected and recycled over 1.3 million bottles.”