St. Joseph School As part of the TerraCycle program, St. Joseph School collects and gets cash for various brands, including all Mars brands candy wrappers. After Halloween (and anytime), people can send those empty wrappers to school. Collection boxes are the main foyer and cafeteria. The following brands are accepted: M&Ms, Skittles and Twix, Mars and Dove bars. Also, before people dispose of this year's Halloween costumes, they should consider donating it for next year's Green Halloween Used Costume Sale. The

When it comes to eco-mindedness, throwing anything away can be an anxiety riddled experience.  Every product is rigorously analyzed guaranteeing the trashcan is the only option.  In steps Tom Szaky, an innovate man with an earth changing idea, Sponsored Waste. Tom Szaky started TerraCycle in 2001 as a Princeton University freshman, with the hopes of winning the Princeton Business Plan Contest.  His idea was to address the environmental issue of trash by using worms to eat organic waste thus producing fertilizer.

With TerraCycle, one person's trash is another person's eco-friendly retail product. The brainchild of a 19-year-old Princeton University freshman in 2001, TerraCycle uses a wide variety of non-recyclable items to make more than 50 diverse products that are sold at major retailers, including Target, The Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Office Max, Whole Foods Market and Petco.

I always wonder what I can do to help the environment. I also try to inspire my children to have that same passion for the Earth we live on. TerraCycle has an amazing set up! They recycle trash from non recycleable products. TerraCycle has partnered up with some major retailers to help distribute these wonderful products. And Terra Cycle also helps raise money for charities. They have everything...from upcycled lunchboxes to recycled plant pots. Plus, the prices for these products are very reasonable.

Terracycle recycled products, Terracycle.netThe next time you throw out that bag of potato chips or box of M&Ms, it could end up in your next consumer electronics gadget. Terracycle.com offers a whole bunch of cool items made from recycled material, and the company sent us a bunch of fun stuff. My favorite was the pair of speakers made from a box of Peanut M&Ms, which created a nice pair of portable speakers for my iPod. The cool part? The passive speakers required no batteries! We also got a clipboard made from a recycled motherboard, a set of circuit board coasters, and photo frames made from old circuit boards.

A local group of students helped an international company turn trash into treasure. Christian Chapel Academy, 3300 S. Providence Road, participated in TerraCycle’s recycle and reuse program. TerraCycle is “in the business of reclamation and innovation when it comes to waste,” said Emily Bradford, a publicist for the company. TerraCycle uses waste to make products such as handbags and computer speakers. For each piece of reused waste, two cents are donated to a charity or school.

A set of New Jersey Wal-Mart parking lots now have a way to turn consumer product waste into profits. (Well, a little pocket change, anyway.)  Terracycle <http://www.terracycle.net/>  has installed what they call "Store Collection Systems," a 20-foot trailer that accepts all kinds of packaging that can't be recycled in the normal blue bin outside your house. Then they take the mostly plastic waste—like Elmer’s glue bottles, toothpaste tubes, Capri Sun drink pouches—and turn them into products to resell in stores and online. They make mostly bags, pouches and coolers, but a few other items like picture frames and fertilizer, too.

P.S. 105 is one of the top schools when it comes to collecting drink pouches for recycling. As part of the “Drink Pouch Brigade” program, the makers of Capri Sun and recycler TerraCycle have collected 50 million drink pouches nationwide. The squishy juicy-drink holders are recycled and made into new materials for eco-friendly products.

One man's trash is another man's...retail shop? What? This is what.  TerraCycle <http://www.terracycle.net/>  "upcycles" already-used drink pouches like CapriSun drinks into cool, unique things! To date, TerraCycle has kept 50 million juice pouches out of landfills. 50 million!