The Kick-It 3v3 Soccer Tournament is coming to Alton August 3 & 4 with Entenmann's Bakery and recycling pioneer TerraCycle. Entenmann's will offer free samples of Little Bites and have recycling bins for the empty packaging which will then be sent to TerraCycle for recycling. For more information, registration and details about the tournament please visit www.kickit3v3.com.

Entenmann’s Bakery, a Bimbo Bakeries USA company and maker of more than 100 sweet baked goods, has partnered with upcycling and recycling pioneer TerraCycle to launch the Entenmann’s Little Bites Pouch Brigade. Shoppers can now send their empty Little Bites packages to TerraCycle to be recycled or repurposed. For every two pounds of pouches returned, TerraCycle awards points which can be used for charity gifts or converted to cash and donated to the school or non-profit organization of the collector’s choice.

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Action News Reports on a Girl Scout troop doing their part recycling Kraft Cheese packaging while raising money for their school or charity (Link Below). TerraCycle on WPVI-PHI (ABC) The girl scout troop collects Kraft cheese packaging at local eateries to raise funds for their school or charity. TerraCycle, an upcycling and recycling company located in Trenton, New Jersey, is working with the girl scout troop by collecting and reusing Kraft cheese packaging. They convert the plastic into reusable items. This reduces waste while paving a way to help others with donations for education or charity.

Denver resident helps nonprofit recycle non-recyclable items

Sports fans in Plainfield can get more than just exercise at the upcoming Kick It 3v3 Soccer Tournament on July 20-21. Entenmann’s Bakery, a sponsor of the sporting event, has partnered with recycling company TerraCycle to launch the Entenmann’s Little Bites Pouch Brigade. Entenmann’s will hand out free samples of Little Bites products, and TerraCycle will collect the empty pouches in special bins. Participants are also welcome to bring Little Bites packages from home to be collected. TerraCycle will recycle and repurpose collected pouches into innovative consumer items ranging from flowerpots to playgrounds. After the event, any school, charity, community group, organization, family or individual can sign up for the Entenmann’s Little Bites Pouch Brigade to collect and send TerraCycle their empty Little Bites packages. For every 2 pounds of pouches returned, TerraCycle awards points which can be used for charity gifts or converted to cash and donated to the school or nonprofit organization of the collector’s choice. Shipping is free. For more information on TerraCycle or to register for free for the Entenmann’s Little Bites Pouch Brigade, visit www.terracycle.com.

PINE BEACH — Officials and residents here say they have 18-year-old Lindsey Van Zile to thank for launching the campaign that led to the borough’s first $2,000 grant from Sustainable New Jersey and a new native garden at Pocket Park. “I was tired of looking at the overgrown weeds, and seeing how bad the area looked when I was riding my bike,” said the teen, who lives near the park at the corner of Riverside and Motor roads. Last year, Van Zile began going to Borough Council meetings to persuade council members to help with her quest to revitalize the park. The council agreed to pass a resolution to apply for the grant. “She (Van Zile) walks her talk,” Councilwoman Susan Coletti said of Van Zile. “She is the one who wrote the grant, and executed her plan.” “I just wanted people to be able to come here and enjoy nature, its beauty,” Van Zile said. In addition to the council’s help, Van Zile also sought the help of the American Littoral Society and its Bayscape for Barnegat Bay program. “The program was created for just that purpose, to help individuals with preserving and protecting the bay area,” said Helen Henderson, Atlantic Coast programs manager and Barnegat Bay projects director. “Anyone can participate in the programs and create native plant gardens and become stewards of the land,” she said. Van Zile said her parents, Marcy and Robert Van Zile, have always been environmentally conscious. Her father works for a pharmaceutical company and her mother is a Clean Ocean Action volunteer. “I guess I get my drive to preserve and recycle from my parents,” she said. “It must have rubbed off on me.” The work to create the garden included clearing the land of debris and tilling the land. Van Zile purchased the plants including blazing stars, foxglove and bush blueberry plants. The area is lined with stone pavers and has a tiled stone that was designed for the garden by Van Zile’s neighbor, 9-year-old Taylor McCue. Van Zile recently graduated from Toms River High School South. She has received multiple awards for her volunteer work, and also started a recycling program in the town. Through the program, she collects empty yogurt cups and granola wrappers to send to Terracycle, a Trenton company that recycles the materials into new products. “They pay me money for the recyclables. So far, I have $500 coming to me,” she said. The windfall will go to the environment, of course, says Van Zile, who heads to Lynchburg College in Virginia in August and plans to become an environmental lawyer: She expects to buy garden enhancements, such as signage to identify its plants.

Entenmann’s Bakery, a brand of Horsham, Pa.-based Bimbo Bakeries USA, has partnered with upcycling and recycling pioneer TerraCycle to launch the Entenmann’s Little Bites Pouch Brigade. Shoppers can send their empty Little Bites packages to TerraCycle to be recycled or repurposed. For every 2 pounds of pouches returned, TerraCycle awards points which can be used for charity gifts or converted to cash and donated to the school or non-profit organization of the collector’s choice. Any school, charity, community group, organization, family or individual is welcome to participate. The pouches that are collected will be recycled into new, innovative consumer items ranging from flowerpots to recycling bins to playgrounds. “The Entenmann’s Little Bites team is pleased that our joint venture with TerraCycle will help offset the tonnage sent into the waste stream each year,” said category director Lorraine Hale. “Because Little Bites are so popular with children, involvement with this Brigade is a great way to educate and inspire younger generations to recycle more,” said TerraCycle CEO and founder Tom Szaky. “When children see that their collected pouches can be turned into a new and useful product, recycling will hopefully become a lifelong habit for them.” Consumers can sign up for the Little Bites Pouch Brigade free online.

There's always flower pots somewhere around our house, that are not always easy to reach with the garden hose. For those planters a watering can is always helpful and today I'm blogging about TerraCycle Recycled Garden Products.  TerraCycle is a company that makes home and garden products from a variety of non-recyclable materials in an effort to keep unwanted plastics out of landfills. They currently have some new garden products that are made from 100% of recycled plastic (common materials like drink pouches and granola bags, toothbrushes and more.) Next up was the Terra Stone Plant Caddy. I have been known to move my planters around a couple times a month and usually it's back breaking work to pick one up.  Sometimes I use a wheel barrow to assist me and sometimes I just push and slide.... so I was anxious to try this plant caddy. Please note TerraCycle did send me these products to review but all thoughts, pictures and opinions expressed on this blog are my own.

Albe Zakes, global VP, communications at TerraCycle, has been using Basecamp for a little more than two years. How do you use it? Once you log on it takes you to the main dashboard where you can see the shared calendar, to-do lists, and all the most recent file uploads. On the right side of the main dashboard page is a matrix of every client we have in every country. It's almost like a file folder system, and it provides easy access to our clients in all countries. For example, if I'm looking for Nestlé in Brazil I can access all information for that client right there. You can set it up to get email updates on any specific client or country. I also get a daily digest that notifies me of everything that has happened that day. So if a press release or new pricing has been added to a client's section, it's really nice because I can just click on the update email and it takes me directly to that client's section. If there's an issue, it's usually with uploading or accessing files, and we either call or email customer support. They've been really good and are very responsive to emails. How does it serve your business needs? We operate in 23 countries and have about 100 different clients across those countries, and many of our clients operate in multiple countries. For example, we do work for Kraft in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, the US, the UK, and all the Nordic countries. So it's crucial for us to have a system like this. How does it serve your business needs? We operate in 23 countries and have about 100 different clients across those countries, and many of our clients operate in multiple countries. For example, we do work for Kraft in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, the US, the UK, and all the Nordic countries. So it's crucial for us to have a system like this. Before Basecamp we were duplicating a lot of work. If someone on one of my teams needed to put together a media kit, press release, pricing update, or presentation for a client, they created those from scratch. As a global manager, I was spending a lot of time editing and re-editing the same documents for different countries. Because there's a specific section for every brand in each country, if I've just worked with my team in Canada on a really terrific presentation for Kraft and my team in Mexico has a presentation coming up, I can send them to the Canada section for Kraft and tell them to base their presentation on what we did in Canada. It works the same way for campaigns. For example, we ran a very successful program in the US collecting oral care waste for Colgate. About a year later we launched a similar program in Germany, and I sent my German PR manager to Basecamp to access the Colgate US file and use the materials there as the template for the German campaign. It really cuts down on reviews and editing I have to do since it's based on materials I already created and approved. It's also been a lifesaver when traveling. For example, my laptop died on the way to a major meeting in the UK with Johnson & Johnson.  Without my laptop or my notes I would be going into the meeting blind. Because everything was in Basecamp, I was able to use someone else's laptop and get all the information I needed including the presentation we were going to give, the office location, names of the people we were meeting with, and the agenda. Within 10 minutes, all the knowledge and assets I needed were at my fingertips again. It's pretty invaluable to be able to access all of that information from anywhere.