The TerraCycle design team suggests using extra holiday or seasonal greeting cards to make cool ornaments, such as the ones seen on this page.

Sur la Table accepts both brands, while Williams-Sonoma can take Nespresso capsules and send them to TerraCycle in New Jersey, where they're recycled (terracycle.com).

Do you have someone on your shopping list that love going green? That would love recycled and upcycled products? Then TerraCycle is a site you NEED to check out.

With the Holidays quickly approaching, the last thing on most peoples minds is the waste that we will create. I was given an opportunity to review a couple of products made by a company called Terracycle. With the way that most people think and not knowing how much my readers like to recycle or reuse, I was nervous about trying to think of a way to write up a post.

Terracycle allows you to send in your trash in exchange for a 2 cent donation to your choice of school or charity for each qualified piece of waste that you send in.  Besides the cash payment option they have also added a number of other great ways to reward you and your teams for your collections.

Farr launched Millicoma's chapter of the TerraCycle program three years ago, a recycling company that advocates for environmental awareness.

Once the 7 foot meter is filled, the discarded cigarette butts will be sent to TerraCycle in New Jersey. The company collects difficult to recycle products and repurposes them.

According to McDonald, a group called TerraCycle is paying to ship Solo cups to its facilities and will even donate money to a charity of the group’s choice per cup recycled. The initiative is also currently working on opening up online ordering for the “I Tree Grove” shirts due to popular demand.

SUSTAINABILITY PIONEER:L’Oreal USA – Garnier for its beauty brigade program, which diverts beauty packaging from landfills. Working with Terracycle, the program has collected 2.5 million pieces of packaging waste and upcycled it into new products.

Now the fun part begins. Your team can develop a mission or vision statement to set the tone and consider inviting teachers, staff and parents to participate. Decide if your team wants to set a few goals to get you started. For instance, you could start a recycling program such as TerraCycle in your lunchroom.