Ranney’s Lower School kicked off Earth Day last week with a new recycling project that focuses on electronics. In collaboration with Terracycle, which provides free waste-collection programs for hard-to-recycle materials, students and their families are collecting unwanted or no longer useable iPads, iPods, cameras, calculators and more through the end of the school year. For each item collected, Terracycle rewards the school with points that can be redeemed for a monetary donation to a charity or nonprofit organization. The children will vote on where the funds will go. “One option may be to use the funds to create new recycling programs here at the school,” said Judith Salisbury, Lower School Science Teacher. Renata Bodner (Ethan ’25) of Eatontown, came up with the idea for the project when she stumbled across the Terracycle website online. “We all try to do our part by leaving our recyclables at the curb, or even bringing them to a recycling center or other drop-off sites, but [Terracycle] allows us to go a step further and recycle items that a town may not take,” she says. “And even better, everybody involved in it wins.” Many items can be recycled, so why focus on electronics? “A lot of people don’t think about recycling their electronics, but they are actually quite useful,” explained Salisbury. Electronics are also worth more points from Terracycle compared with bottle caps and juice pouches, for example, and cleaner to store on campus. Local families can support the project by sending in their recyclable electronics until the end of the school year.

Ranney’s Lower School kicked off Earth Day during the week of April 22, 2013 with a new recycling project that focuses on electronics. In collaboration with Terracycle, which provides free waste-collection programs for hard-to-recycle materials, students and their families are collecting unwanted or no longer useable iPads, iPods, cameras, calculators and more through the end of the school year.

Spearheaded by science teacher Carole Andreazza, the middle school group is making its mark by donating recyclable items like juice packets to Terracycle, a Trenton-based group that creates products and plastics out of recyclables.

This banner was made possible with almost $1,500 raised from recycling juice pouches and chip bags through a company called TerraCycle. Scocchi said the rest of the money will go toward more projects, like the tree planting, as well as rewards like pizza parties throughout the year for students.

TerraCycle Inc. reached $7 million donated to schools and charities across the country and around the world with help from Mary B. Neal Elementary School in Waldorf.

On December 14, 2012, just three days before the Sandy Hook tragedy, Terra Cycle received their school's first shipment of juice pouches.  As a new school brigade, you can just imagine the excitement at Sandy Hook among the kids, teachers and parents who helped to organize the brigade, in sending off their first shipment to Terra cycle.

To provide cleanrooms and laboratories with effective solutions to mitigate waste and enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability efforts, Kimberly-Clark Professional has introduced RightCycle – the first large-scale recycling effort for nontraditional cleanroom waste.

To provide cleanrooms and laboratories with effective solutions to mitigate waste and enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability efforts, Kimberly-Clark Professional has introduced RightCycle – the first large-scale recycling effort for nontraditional cleanroom waste.

To provide cleanrooms and laboratories with effective solutions to mitigate waste and enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability efforts, Kimberly-Clark Professional has introduced RightCycle – the first large-scale recycling effort for nontraditional cleanroom waste.

To provide cleanrooms and laboratories with effective solutions to mitigate waste and enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability efforts, Kimberly-Clark Professional has introduced RightCycle – the first large-scale recycling effort for nontraditional cleanroom waste.