Bear Naked Natural Soft-Baked Granola Cookies are available inFruit & Nut and Double Chocolate 100% Pure and Natural Soft-Baked Granola Cookies Bear Naked soft-baked granola cookies are loaded with the nutrition mother nature provides. These cookies are chock-full of good stuff like whole grains, tasty berries, and hearty nuts. It’s a recipe for incredible flavor and a natural energy that lifts your spirits–so you can enjoy the adventure in every day. Double Chocolate Cookies A delicious blend of whole grain oats, a double dose of chocolate from semi-sweet chocolate chips and cocoa, plus an added crunch from walnuts and almonds. Made with real whole grain oats, hearty nuts, and luscious fruit 100% pure and natural ingredients you can actually recognize and pronounce 10 grams whole grain per serving NO artificial flavors or preservatives NO cholesterol or hydrogenated oils; 0 grams trans fat NO high fructose corn syrup Vegetarian Friendly Bear Naked Sustainable Packaging Project Bear Naked is partnering with TerraCycle to help reduce the number of bags that end up in landfills by collecting them from you and repurposing them into unique accessories and products like umbrellas, shower curtains and tote bags. You Can Help When your Bear Naked bag is empty you can choose from two recycling options: Mail your empty bags directly to Bear Naked for gear: Each Bear Naked bag you save and mail in is worth a certain number of points depending on size, and you can use those points to get cool gear items like T-shirts and reusable grocery bags. Download Gear For Bags Form Set-up or join your own brigade through TerraCycle and earn cash for your school or organization. You collect the bags and send them directly into TerraCycle. Bear Naked will upcycle the waste and turn them into cool products and your selected organization will receive $.02 per bag. Learn More 4.6 / out of 5based on 15 ratings Pack of six, 8.5-ounce bags of Bear Naked Soft Baked Granola Cookies, Double Chocolate No cholesterol, hydrogenated oils, or trans fat No artificial flavors, preservatives, or colors; No high fructose corn syrup All natural; minimally processed; vegetarian friendly  

Across the country people are starting to notice the unpleasant sight of cigarette butts. To help solve the problem of cigarette butts polluting the environment, Terracycle partnered with tobacco companies to create a recycling program, embracing a partner often shunned by the sustainable community. But together they created the “butt box” to allow people to recycle butts, solving a major trash issue (Terracycle’s goal). The trick, as Tom Szaky of Terracycle says, is to be upfront with the public about your issues and how you’re solving them: “One of the most important things brands can do is acknowledge they have an issue and say what they are going to do about it. … This is empowerment.”

The issue of sustainability never seems to be far from the minds of cosmetics manufacturers, and L’Oreal USA’s latest green goal has been realized as its Garnier subsidiary develops the first community garden made from non-recyclable post-consumer beauty waste.

The Garnier Green Garden has been implemented in partnership with recycling firm TerraCycle and GrowNYC, a firm that sets up environmental programs, as part of the beauty brand’s long-term goal to find greener, more sustainable solutions for beauty care products. "We're thrilled to have created a program that has the capacity to impact the quality of life for an entire community," said David Greenberg, President of Maybelline New York-Garnier-Essie. "Our commitment to sustainability isn't just about keeping packaging waste from personal care and cosmetics products out of landfills, but it's also about reusing that waste and providing a foundation for greener living." The beauty waste to be used was collected by Garnier's Personal Care and Beauty Brigade Program, a free fundraising effort that pays for every piece of waste collected and returned to TerraCycle. Waste not, want not The collected beauty waste, which would otherwise be destined for landfills, consists of non-recyclable hair care, skin care and cosmetic packaging that have since been recycled by TerraCycle to create many of the plastic components being installed in the new garden. The garden is located at 237 East 104th Street, and is estimated to yield 1,500 pounds of vegetables a year. Garnier spokesperson Bridget Moynahan was presented for the ground-breaking ceremony and activities, as well as representatives from Garnier, L'Oreal USA, TerraCycle, and GrowNYC. "We are pleased to partner with our like-minded friends at Garnier who are providing the support needed to restore this community hub for all Harlem residents,” says Marcel Van Ooyen, Executive Director of GrowNYC. "Through the Personal Care and Beauty Brigade, the garden will be a permanent testament to the impact recycling can have on a community and in our world," adds Tom Szaky, TerraCycle CEO.

The Briar Woods High School Freshman Student Council Association in Ashburn and Potowmack Elementary School in Sterling both won $500 grants from Keep Virginia Beautiful, a program aimed at improving Virginia’s environment. Briar Woods’ students will use the money to transform an unused courtyard into an educational space for students, a design that earned them a place in the Beautification category. They intend to plant native trees and shrubs as well as add seating for students. The garden will be maintained by the students and serve as an inspiration for onlookers.   Potowmack Elementary will put the grant money toward expanding its lunchroom recycling program. The students, staff and parents plan to purchase recycling bins to segregate their recyclable waste. They will then send the waste to Terracycle, a company that recycles waste and makes new products from it. Keep Virginia Beautiful is awarding grants through the month of June for their “30 grants in 30 days” event. To participate, government, nonprofit and service organizations can apply for one of three categories: Beautification, Litter and Recycling. For more information, go to www.keepvirginiabeautiful.org.  

 

TerraCycle started in 2001 as a simple organic fertilizer company. Founder Tom Szaky, then a freshman at Princeton University, saw an opportunity to use discarded food scraps from the cafeteria to make a product that had value. He fed the leftovers to an army of worms to harvest worm compost, or Worm Poop as it became fondly known, a completely organic, ultra-effective fertilizer. With no money to buy packaging, Tom bottled the liquid fertilizer in used soda bottles collected from recycling bins, unwittingly creating the world’s first product made from AND packaged entirely in waste. The idea of using would-be waste material to make new products grew. Today, TerraCycle partners with major consumer goods manufacturers such as Kraft Foods, Frito-Lay, Mars, Colgate-Palmolive, L’Oreal, Method and many more to collect almost 50 kinds of non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle packaging, such as drink pouches, chip bags, candy wrappers, toothpaste tubes, cosmetics and household cleaner packaging. For each piece of waste sent to TerraCycle through this Brigade program, the collector earns points that can be put toward charity gifts or converted to cash and paid to any school or non-profit. The programs are completely free to join and all shipping costs are pre-paid. The collected material is upcycled or recycled into a wide range of consumer products. By using some of the millions of pieces of packaging that go to landfill every year to make innovative consumer goods, TerraCycle hopes to reduce the need to use virgin materials and show the world it is more sustainable and profitable to use waste as a raw material. Since 2007, more than 90,000 locations and 29 million people have gotten involved in the Brigade program and are helping to collect trash in homes, schools, offices and community buildings across the country. More than 2.5 billion pieces of pre- and post-consumer packaging have been collected and over $4.5 million has been donated to schools and non-profits. For more information, please visit: TerraCycle.com and TerraCycleShop.com

Story about TerraCycle and a local Brigade school ran on Teen Kids News in 40 different markets, listed below, inclduing NYC, Chicago, Dallas, San Diego, Detroit, Boston, Phoenix and Seattle.  We've uploaded one version of the piece onto Youtube for easy viewing. View TerraCycle and Teen Kids News Below!! TerraCycle on Teen Kids News

Lee Elementary School students turned juice pouches into pencil cases, chip bags to lunch boxes and candy wrappers into backpacks as part of a national initiative that combines fundraising and recycling. Students collected nearly 6,000 pieces of non-recyclable waste, such as bags, wrappers and bottles, and shipped them to TerraCycle, a company that makes new products from lunchroom garbage. TerraCycle turns food packaging destined for the landfill into products for home, school and the office. The company’s tote bags, trash cans, picture frames and more are made from the waste and sold at major retailers like Target, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Home Depot. Schools are paid two cents for each piece of waste, earning Lee Elementary $120. Hundreds of schools across the state participated, collecting 1,261,712 pieces of waste and earning nearly $25,000. Schools can send their lunchroom waste to TerraCycle by printing pre-paid shipping labels from the Web site. For more information, visit www.terracycle.net.

Girl Scout Troop 1126 helped reduce waste at Oak Meadow Elementary School in El Dorado Hills, all while raising money for school supplies for homeless children. The troop of fifth-grade girls recently completed a year-long Journey program exploring electricity and energy savings. The troop chose to participate in the TerraCycle program as its final project. TerraCycle helps eliminate waste by creating national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste. Troop 1126 collected juice pouches, which go to TerraCycle to be recycled into various products from tote bags and pencil cases to plastic lumber and pavers. The troop will redeem TerraCycle points, valued at one cent per point, to be used for their charitable gift supporting school supplies for homeless children. The troop members described their journey and final project as “awesome, fun, exciting, amazing and cool.” “We are really proud of what we’ve done,” said Madelyn Minami of their efforts to help clean up the environment and support children with school supplies. “We really wanted to help kids our age,” said Anna Slojkowski. As part of their final project the girls publicized their effort on campus, collect juice pouches each day following the lunch periods, weighed the pouches and packaged them up to send to TerraCycle. Troop 1126 members hope to continue this effort once they leave Oak Meadow for middle school, by handing off the project to another younger troop on the campus.

Tom Szaky planted the seed for TerraCycle in his dorm room at Princeton University in 2001. The then-college-freshman discovered the organic fertilizing properties of worm poop, and with it realized a sustainable way to turn waste into a sellable product. Szaky dropped out of Princeton to found TerraCycle, one of the fastest growing eco-companies in the world. TerraCycle is eliminating “the idea of waste” by creating collection and solution systems for traditionally landfill-bound materials. TerraCycle converts their collected waste into a wide variety of products to be sold by major retailers like Walmart and Whole Foods Market. To date, TerraCycle has collected waste from more than 20 million people, diverted billions of units of waste from landfills, and created over 1,500 different upcycled products for sale in the marketplace.