They also are able to sort out less traditional recyclables, such as certain types of plastics, for the TerraCycle program. A relatively new addition to the campus' environmental-friendly efforts, TerraCycle's goal is to drastically reduce the waste stream by creating national recycling systems for previously hard-to-recycle waste.

Terracycle has agreed to collect and reuse the coffee grinds and packaging from two of the single-serve companies: Nespresso and illy iperEspresso. Leftover coffee grounds will be sent to an industrial composting facility and the packaging will be converted into a variety of new products.

Are you looking for that perfect gift for the eco-friendly person on your holiday list? TerraCycle makes a huge range of products ALL from recycled materials! We were thrilled to sample some of them for MamaBreak!

Terracycle strives to outsmart waste by creating collection programs for previously difficult to recycle waste. Here at CC, students and teachers are encouraged to save their used energy bar wrappers, candy bar wrappers, cereal bag liners, as well as old writing instruments such as pens, markers, sharpies, mechanical pencils etc.

Capri Sun is expanding its rewards program for participants in its Drink Pouch Brigade, a free recycling program operated in conjunction with TerraCycle. The expanded benefits will offer prizes to customers who save and return the drink pouches in addition to the cash donations for schools and charities already included in the program. The program has recycled some 200 million pouches to date and earned $4 million in donations.

Terracyle, the New Jersey company that specializes in taking on challenging items to recycle, is trying to do something about this growing problem. Terracycle has agreed to collect and reuse the coffee grinds and packaging from two of the single-serve companies: Nespresso and illy iperEspresso.

TerraCycle is offering a donation to schools of two cents per candy wrapper this Halloween for groups that collect and mail in at least nine pounds of polypropylene wrappers. TerraCycle is encouraging organizations to alert families about the program ahead of Halloween to remind them to save the wrappers, which are otherwise tough to recycle. Environmental News Network (10/18)

To celebrate more than 200 million drink pouches kept out of landfills and almost $4 million donated to schools and charities, Capri Sun is now vastly increasing the prizes and benefits of recycling through the Drink Pouch Brigade, operated by TerraCycle.

Terracycle has made that easy with its candy wrapper-recycling program.The candy wrapper-recycling program is available to charitable organizations throughout any of the continental United States through.

TerraCycle is on a mission to eliminate the idea of waste. [They] do this by creating waste collection programs (each one is called a “Brigade”) for previously non-recyclable, or difficult-to-recycle, waste. The collected waste is then converted into new products, ranging from recycled park benches to upcycled backpacks.