Kimberly-Clark Professional, a division of personal care company that manufacturers contamination control products for laboratories and cleanrooms, has partnered with recycling company TerraCycle to launch RightCycle, a recycling program for hard-to-recycle cleanroom waste such as gloves, hoods, boot covers and other protective clothing.
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.
Helen Keller Elementary School in Franklin is participating in an innovative "green" program that, in addition to reducing waste and raising students’ awareness about recycling, will also earn extra money for the school by joining TerraCycle’s Chip Bag Brigade recycling program.
In addition to clean, empty dairy tubs and lids (yogurt, butter, cream cheese, etc.), the following items may also be dropped off at the Garwood Public Library for recycling with Terracyle: Any brand of empty inkjet cartridges, any brand of plastic diaper packages (such as Huggies) and the plastic packaging of personal wipes, such as Cottonelle or other brands. If you have any questions, feel free to call the Library. Please do not place these items in the outdoor book drop, they must be brought inside the library and placed in the special recycle boxes.
The Pre-Kindergarten students have also been learning about recycling and doing some of it themselves. Currently they are growing flowers in "recycled greenhouses" made out of 16- and 20-oz. plastic bottles. They have also been sorting a variety of garbage items that can be recycled through the Terracycle program the school participates in.
At J.M. Grasse Elementary School last week, however, physical education teacher Audrey Coll and classroom assistant James Conwell strutted down the impromptu gymnasium catwalk, decked out in recycled materials like Capri Sun juice packs, plastic caps and newspaper, to the delight of giggling students.
In recognition of April being "Earth Month," recycling pioneer TerraCycle is celebrating reaching $7 million donated to schools and charities across the country and around the world with help from groups in Rhode Island.
“We’ve done a whole bunch of recycling,” Muska said. “We collect used cell phones, batteries, crayons. We are with a company called Terracycle that we send chip bags and Capri Sun pouches. We get two cents for every pouch and two cents for every chip bag.
All of the sorted recyclables are sent to Terracycle, a company based in New Jersey. Their goal is to convert hard to recycle materials into a wide variety of items and materials. Some of the Upcycling products they offer are duffel bags, lunch boxes, picture frames and even Christmas stockings. Terracycle offers $.02 for each item and Whitemarsh Elementary donates the money back to charity.
Johnston students helped raise more than $7 million for charity through the TerraCycle Brigade Program.
In recognition of April being "Earth Month," recycling pioneer TerraCycle is celebrating reaching $7 million donated to schools and charities across the country and around the world with help from groups in Rhode Island.
