KRAFT Cheese and TerraCycle, Inc. have partnered with Six Flags for a summer recycling drive at Six Flags parks across the United States. This includes: St. Louis, Chicago, San Antonio, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco

Specially marked packages of Polly O Cheese will get kids 10 & under in free to Six Flags or $15 off the price of a ticket for anyone: http://www.kraftrecipes.com/promotions/six-flags-pollyo.aspx It's a great tip and here's how it works: What Polly-O products are included in this offer?  *   12 oz Polly-O String Cheese  *   9 oz Polly-O Twists Cheese  *   12 oz Polly-O 2% String Cheese  *   9 oz Polly-O 2% Twists Cheese What type of tickets can I purchase with the offer? There are two separate offers:  *   Receive $15 off of one full-price general admission ticket any day. or  *   Monday through Friday, receive a free kid’s ticket with the purchase of a full-price general admission ticket. The offer can not be combined with any other discount offers or applied towards the purchase of other tickets, including Season Passes. The offer is not valid at water parks, Six Flags Wild Safari or 3-Park Combo tickets. What parks are participating in the offer? You may redeem your Polly-O “Free Kid’s Ticket” offer at one of the following Six Flags Theme Parks; Six Flags America, Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags New England, Six Flags Over Georgia and The Great Escape. You may redeem the “$15 Off a full-price ticket” offer at any Six Flags Theme Park. When is the deadline for redeeming my discount? This offer is valid through October 10, 2011. How many discounted tickets can I purchase with my Kraft package wrapper? There is a limit of two (2) per package wrapper. How does the redemption work? Bring your wrapper to any Six Flags ticket office when you purchase your tickets. Can I call the ticket office and receive the discount over the phone or via the web? No, you must visit the ticket office to redeem the discount. Do tickets have an expiration date? Dates are specific to tickets. Specific dates can be found on the tickets and are valid on those days only. What is the refund policy? Tickets purchased with discount are non-refundable. Six Flags does not offer cancellations, refunds, rain checks or exchanges. What are my Park’s hours? Each Six Flags park has their own specific operating hours. Visit www.sixflags.com to determine the operating schedule for the park you plan to visit.

  Maxwell Elementary School's parent-led recycling program surpassed its $15,000 goal for the school year. "We're at $16,600 right now," parent volunteer Judith Hodges said May 19, the last day of classes at the Thomson school. "We collect about 20 different items," Hodges explained. They range from chip bags and juice pouches to ink cartridges and cell phones. Recycled items are shipped to TerraCycle Inc., of Trenton, N.J.

TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/>  is launching a new campaign with Old Navy next week called the Flip Flop Replay just in time for Earth Day. From April 22 through May 21 you can drop off used flip flops at any Old Navy store in the U.S. Then TerraCycle will recycle the flip flops into four public playgrounds at different locations around the country, marking the first large-scale effort to collect and recycle flip flops. TerraCycle has led the recycling charge with several successful programs <http://www.inhabitots.com/terracycle-backpacks/>  in the past including recycling Stoneyfield yogurt containers into toothbrushes, razors and more. Beyond flip flop recycling, you can join in on one of TerraCycle’s other “Bridgades <http://www.terracycle.net/brigades?locale=en-US&show_all=true> ” by sending in wrappers, corks, containers, electronics and more.

Six Flags theme parks and Polly-O are offering extra discounts this summer, as well as easy recycling opportunities. Visitors who bring specially marked Polly-O String Cheese packaging to the Six Flags Over Georgia 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.

Garnier’s Cleaner Greener Tour is coming to Dallas! Look for the tour vehicle parked at the Walmart location on Cockrell Hill Road in Dallas starting today, Thursday, May 26 and tomorrow Friday, May 27 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Garnier is kicking off a packaging collection and recycling program with TerraCycle. They have also announced 'Pure Clean', a new biodegradable hair care line. Take any of your hair care, skin care or cosmetic packaging to the tour vehicle to be recycled by TerraCycle and score some free samples of Pure Clean! After these tour ends, you will still be able to participate in this recycling program. Send in your packaging from home, the program is Free to join and all shipping costs are paid. TerraCycle will also pay $.02 for each unit of waste collected to the charity of the collector’s choice. Awesome!

This week, Garnier’s Cleaner Greener Tour will be parked at Walmart on Cockrell Hill Road in Dallas from Wednesday-Friday. Walmart shoppers can bring any and all hair care, skin care and cosmetic packaging to the tour vehicle to be recycled by TerraCycle and score some free samples of Pure Clean. Garnier is kicking off a packaging collection and recycling program with TerraCycle called the Personal Care and Beauty Brigade and announcing Pure Clean, a new biodegradable hair care line.

Alright, my inbox is yet again full of great stuff again this week, and rather than have 5 million new posts for y'all today, here's a bit of contests, coupons, charity news, and fun stuff for you all in one nifty post. You know the drill, right? ;) Have fun entering, save a little money, or support a needful charity - the choice is yours. Sprout and TerraCycle are asking parents WHY they are protecting the planet for the sake of their children. Email contest@teams.terracycle.net and tell them about it, in 250 words or less, for the chance to win a month’s supply of Sprout Organic Baby Food, a TerraCycle bag, and $100 for a green project. Three runner-ups will receive prize packs, too! For more info, please see http://www.terracycle.net/Protecting-the-Planet-for-Baby-Contest. You can also sign up for the Sprout Baby Food Pouch Brigade to collect and send your Sprout pouches to TerraCycle, where they will be upcycled or recycled into new products. TerraCycle and Sprout pay $.02 per pouch to the charity of the collector’s choice and all shipping costs. For more info, please visithttp://www.terracycle.net/brigades/sprout-baby-food-pouch-brigade?locale=en-US.

And as previously articulated, TerraCycle partners with brands to re/upcycle hard-to-recycle branded packaging, like Cliff Bar wrappers, Capri-Sun juice pouches, and so on. By setting up collection sites across America and the world—called brigades—TerraCycle is able to collect the quantity necessary to economically justify the reprocessing of it. While everything technically is recyclable, the costs of collection (curb side vs. drop off vs. deposits) and sortation (single stream vs. comingled vs. manual/automated sorting technologies) for multi-material packaging usually exceeds the cost of virgin material/packaging production; this results in the likelihood that said packaging is not being recycled in most American communities. When brands partner with TerraCycle, however, they fund the shipment of the hard-to-recycle post consumer collected packaging to a TerraCycle facility, where it stays until it is re/upcycled into new products/packaging/material. Part of the fee for partnering with TerraCycle also goes into R&D to better understand how to get the most value out of the collected “waste” and PR, so that the partnered brands receive the marketing collateral inherent in such a warm and fuzzy initiative.

This week, Garnier’s Cleaner Greener Tour will be parked at Walmart on Cockrell Hill Road in Dallas from Wednesday-Friday. Walmart shoppers can bring any and all hair care, skin care and cosmetic packaging to the tour vehicle to be recycled by TerraCycle and score some free samples of Pure Clean. Garnier is kicking off a packaging collection and recycling program with TerraCycle called the Personal Care and Beauty Brigade and announcing Pure Clean, a new biodegradable hair care line.