4. If you've ever wondered what to do with empty shampoo bottles and face lotion tubes, we've got a solution: You can send them off to Terracycle where they'll be recycled. Plus, when you sign up for the Beauty Brigade—a partnership with Garnier—you get to donate two cents for each container to your favorite charity or school.

Six Flags Offers DiscountsKraft and Six Flags are offering discounts at parks across the country for visitors who bring in specially marked string cheese packaging for recycling. The packaging will be sent to my company, TerraCycle, and made into plastic products including plastic lumber and plastic pavers. Visitors who bring specially marked Kraft String Cheese packaging to Six Flags will receive $15 off general admission any day of the week. Polly-O packaging (only available on the East Coast) is good for $15 off general admission every day, or a free kids ticket with purchase of general admission on a weekday. Six Flags and Kraft have teamed up with TerraCycle to collect and recycle the cheese packaging. Normally, this packaging is not recyclable in most areas of the country , and this is the first time it will be recycled! TerraCycle will make the packaging into eco-friendly plastic products including trash cans, flower pots, plastic plywood, park benches, and picnic tables. Visitors can continue recycling packaging that is usually non-recyclable by signing up for TerraCycle’s Brigade program, through which these items are collected. For every piece of trash that a Brigade sends in, they will receive two points, which can be put towards a specific charity gift or converted to cash and donated to the participant’s charity of choice. Date: Friday, July 15, 2011 Time: All Day Event Location: Other Type of event: Fun/Entertainment

Newtown Elementary School students help sort TerraCycle items during the 2010-2011 school year. Do something good for the planet and your neighborhood Friday. It’s as simple as donating your trash. Yes, you heard right. Trash. Since October, Newtown Elementary School has been participating in TerraCycle recycling. The school is holding its first of two TerraCycle recycling summer collection days on Friday. TerraCycle, headquartered in Trenton, N.J., specializes in making consumer products from, well, trash. For example, the company makes bags from Capri Sun pouches, and other products from chip bags, plastic baggies, candy wrappers, etc.

Six Flags theme parks, POLLY-O & TerraCycle, Inc are offering super discounts this summer while encouraging easy recycling opportunities. Visitors who bring specially marked Polly-O String Cheese packaging to the Six Flags over Georgia in Atlanta will receive $15 off general admission any day of the week or a Free Kid’s Ticket with purchase of general admission ticket on weekdays . What a fabulous offer!

KRAFT and TerraCycle have partnered with Six Flags parks across the United States to offer $15 discounts on general admission tickets to visitors who bring specially marked KRAFT cheese packaging. The packaging will then be sent to TerraCycle to be recycled into eco-friendly products. TerraCycle recycles packaging that is normally non-recyclable, and this is one of first opportunities to recycle string cheese packaging on such a large scale. This is a great way to help protect your pocket book and the environment!

This is a clip of a show on NBC Philadelphia, the 10! Show, which featured our M&Ms speakers and new cooler w/ recyclable liner and aired this morning! Click on the link above to watch – our mention starts at about 4:25.

This giveaway is packed full of awesome stuff that is fun for both moms and kids, and its good for the environment, all courtesy of Terracycle. TerraCycle is an awesome company that is reducing waste by finding creative ways to use materials that most of us would think of as garbage. You know the saying “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”.

Spending time outdoors makes me hungry. That’s why picnics were invented. Who wants to have to go back INSIDE when you’re having so much fun OUTSIDE!? We have a cute picnic basket that, frankly, needs to see more sunlight. However, since it’s not insulated, I can only use it for quick trip-to-the-park picnics. For longer trips, I use an insulated cooler. Terracycle, Inc. sent us a roomy Ozark Trail 36 Can Cooler with Removable Hardliner. This particular cooler has a special hardliner – it’s made by Terracycle out of recycled Frito-Lay chip bags! And, it’s antimicrobial (no clue how that happens, but true!). The Ozark Trail Cooler from Terracycle has zipper and mesh pockets front and side pockets, as well as a 3″ expandable top for dry storage, so you don’t have to pack just cans. The 36-can size is perfect to hold one lunch for our family – we sit it between our seats, and I can grab snacks as we go and zip it back up! If we happen to stop, we don’t have to unpack the whole car, I just lift out the cooler and we’re ready to eat!

Are you excited for back-to-school?! I am just so excited. This next giveaway is packed full of awesome stuff that is fun for both moms and kids, as well as good for the environment, courtesy of Terracycle. TerraCycle is an awesome company that is reducing waste by finding creative was to use materials most of us would think of as garbage. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, right?

Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or products that cannot be recycled into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value. This is a fairly new term in our increasingly eco-conscious world. Upcycling embraces uniqueness and creativity because upcycled products are truly one of a kind. One of the pioneers of upcycling is TerraCycle. They are taking wasteful materials such as drink pouches, chip bags, and tooth brushes and making them into a variety of neat consumer products. TerraCycle’s products are available through a number of retailers including Wal-Mart and Target as well as online. The goal of TerraCycle is to help eliminate waste. They run their own collection programs at many major retailers, theatres, stadiums, and restaurants. In fact, you can sign up on their website to donate certain waste items to TerraCycle and they’ll pay the shipping to get it from you and donate money to a charity of your choice. Find out more about How TerraCycle Works.