If you have someone who is a wine lover and  appreciates environmentally friendly products, this TerraCycle Wine Cork Board is a wonderful choice. This is a great example of style meeting function in a way for the eco conscious consumer! It can be purchased with or without the private vineyard labels on the corks! TerraCycle combines wine corks collected through cork brigades with a wood frame to create a fun way to pin up notes (while lightening the load on our landfills). The dimensions of the wine corkboard are 16″ by 16″. The Terracycle Billboard Fierce Messenger Bag is a unique bag that is truly one of a kind. Since each bag is made from a different billboard, no two are exactly alike. The modern look and eco friendly design is a fabulous gift for anyone on your gift list! The TerraCycle Billboard Fierce Messenger Bag is the ultimate in eco-dialed-bodacity. This sturdy everyday messenger bag brings an eco-friendly twist to vinyl billboard. Each pack is crafted from a unique piece of billboard vinyl and a reclaimed seat belt. Designed with enough room and the strength to carry anything, your one-of-a-kind bag can make a hip green statement as bold as the billboard it came from.

Oooh….we LOVE this product! We can spray it anywhere, including sealed granite countertops, tile floors, bath fixtures, and doors and it works just great on all of them. The “eco-friendly packaging” actually is pretty cute: the product comes in an old soda bottle, which is very clever and gives it a bit of an edge when compared with other natural cleaners on the market (hey: natural clearer and recycled package!).

Arrowhead Elementary School students are reducing their carbon footprint through a recycling project done in conjunction with New Jersey-based recycling company TerraCycle. As part of the program, fifth-graders in Brigit DiPrimo's class have set up bins around the school to collect various items - ranging from empty Capri Sun juice bags to Chips Ahoy packages to Country Crock tubs - for TerraCycle to "up cycle." The process makes eco-friendly products like diaper bags and folders using non-recyclable waste materials.

Playing into the established "reuse is better than recycle" eco-sensibility, TerraCycle takes trash and transforms it into useful eco-products. TerraCycle runs a series of free national brigades, inviting people to send their garbage in exchange for cash to be donated to schools and nonprofits. From a kite made out of Skittles wrappers to an upcycled bike chain picture frame to fire logs made out of recycled cardboard and wax, TerraCycle's 1,500 products range from the quirky to the utilitarian and are available in a wide range of major U.S. retailers, from Whole Foods to Wal-Mart. Founded by a Princeton freshman in 2001, TerraCycle has collected nearly 2 billion waste units to date and raised more than $1.5 million for charity.

Tortilla brands Mission and Guerrero, both run by Gruma Corporation, package their tortillas and tostadas in low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plastic bags. While technically recyclable, LDPE, identified by the #4 resin code, is not commonly collected in recycling programs.  The New Jersey-based upcycling company will take the tortilla packaging and use it to make new tortilla holders and other consumer products. It will also collect packaging from the companies' dips and salsas.

I asked her,"Are those Capri Sun pouches? Did you make that?" She started laughing and telling me how she found this company called TerraCycle that takes recycling to a whole new level. They do what they "upcycle" things like Capri Sun pouches, Frito-Lay potato chip bags, M&M wrappers, and a ton of other things you and I throw out every day and turns them into things like the bag A'Driane has. I was sold, especially after I saw their website. They sell everything you can think of, but what I really think is cool is that not only do they have stuff you can give your kids to use like pencil cases, kites, colored pencils, etc, but their products aren't expensive at all. They even have what they call "Brigades"-which are basically recycling programs that pay you to send them your trash. Capri Sun pouches, yogurt lids, toothbrushes, candy wrappers, you name it, you, your buisness, or kid's school can collect these items and get paid for collecting it while helping reduce waste-pretty incredible.

One local school in Rockford, Illinois does a great job collecting non-recyclable items and sending them to TerraCycle.

TerraCycle continues to expand its reach into all types of packaging waste with its latest collection programs for tortilla and cheese bags. The New Jersey-based upcycling company will take the tortilla packaging and use it to make new tortilla holders and other consumer products. It will also collect packaging from the companies' dips and salsas. TerraCycle already collects waste from various Kraft Foods products like Capri Sun and Lunchables, and will now take packaging from its Kraft Naturals, Velveeta, Philadelphia, Athenos and other cheese products.

Innovative New Jersey-based company Terracycle <http://www.terracycle.net>  has made a name for itself by collecting and recycling literally tons of trash into an ever-growing array of fun, unique consumer products, from plant food for gardeners to clocks, coasters, bags, office products and much more. These colorful speakers are made from discarded chip bags, and they don't require any additional power source (they are designed to plug directly into an MP3 player or other audio source).

P.E. teacher Trish Peterson says Nashold joined a TerraCycle Brigade last year. TerraCycle pays the school two cents for each drink pouch, they make them into new products like lunch boxes. Fifth grade teacher Shelly Cascio says the kids have really picked up on it. "They stop at home and say mom, dad, wait, we need to recycle this instead of throwing it away because we don't want to put it in our landfills." Lucas Buczynksi washes the pouches every couple of weeks. Other kids help dry and pack them in groups of 25. Once they have 500 packed, the box gets mailed to TerraCycle.