Mildred student takes "green" challenge and becomes eco-product design finalist.

Also new this year, Kraft is playing on consumer’s “green” concerns by partnering with TerraCycle to encourage customers to recycle the cheese wrappers, through a promotion called “Cheese Brigade.” Families collect wrappers, bags and containers from their Kraft Cheese purchases and send them to TerraCycle, which upcycles them into other products ranging from office supplies and totes to decorative accessories. TerraCycle and Kraft Foods pay postage and two cents per unit of packaging to a charity of the collector’s choice. Several Kraft Foods brands, including Capri Sun beverages, Nabisco and Oscar MayerLunchables are now lead sponsors of TerraCycle Brigades. Since 2008, the Capri Sun Drink Pouch Brigade has diverted over 50 million pouches and paid over $1 million to schools and non-profits.

  In a world of where small businesses are run, TerraCycle is the name of a company that has a very unusual business model. This company which is progressing in “going-global” phase turns the world’s waste into new products. The production is carried by collection of non-recyclable waste mainly from manufacturers, also some from school, charities and other community groups. And as by becoming partners with manufactures to “recycle: of “upcycle” that waste materials into new products like plastic lumber from juice pouches and shower curtains from sewn-together granola wrappers. TerraCycle evolved from being a consumer products company that sold worm waste to Wal-Mart and other retailers to being a company that runs waste collection programs and oversees more than 1,500 unique products that are made from the collected material.

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When: Saturday, March 26 <http://independent.com/events/2011/mar/26/> , 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: SBCC <http://independent.com/places/sbcc/> , 721 Cliff Dr., Santa Barbara Cost: $5 Age limit: All ages Categories: Citizen's Alert <http://independent.com/events/search/?category=90> , Special Events <http://independent.com/events/search/?category=68> Description: SBCC Center for Sustainability "Cities As the Solution" Series: Waste & Recycling for a Better World March 25 & 26 Evening Talk, March 25, 7-9:30pm 2011 Keynote Speaker, Albe Zakes from TerraCycle, Inc. SBCC Campus, Fe Bland Auditorium, West Campus Admission $5 ~ All Day Saturday Event, March 26, 9am - 4pm Morning Plenary/Afternoon Break-Out Sessions with: Albe Zakes of TerraCycle; Nikhil Arora from BTTR Ventures; & Author, Janet Unruh Admission, $30 general/$20 Students SBCC Campus, East Campus         Meet the young eco-entrepreneurs who can change the way you think about trash.  And those who can help you understand recycling, why we must, and how we can.  Please join the Santa Barbara City College Center for Sustainability as it continues its "Cities As the Solution" series with "Waste & Recycling for a Better World" on March 25 & 26. The event starts on Friday evening with keynote speaker Albe Zakes, VP Marketing from TerraCycle, Inc., a company that makes useful products from garbage and is now at the forefront of the eco-capitalist movement.  Zakes will share the entrepreneurial adventure he and TerraCycle company founder Tom Szaky have experienced together as they created a company that's good for people, good for profits, and good for the environment.  A follow-up event takes place on Saturday March 26 beginning with a morning plenary session, followed by afternoon break-outs that includes 3 dynamic speakers in the world of Waste & Recycling: Albe Zakes, 25 year-old Global VP/Media from TerraCycle, Inc., the world's leading 'upcycling' company, which converts waste materials into eco-friendly, affordable products available at major retailers worldwide.  TerraCycle upcycles traditionally non-recyclable waste, including drink pouches, chip bags, tooth brushes and many more. TerraCycles innovative "Brigades" programs encourage community organizations to participate in trash retrieval while earning cash.  Paying out more than a million dollars last year alone, the Brigade programs are partially funded by corporate sponsors like KRAFT, Starbucks, and Mars.