TerraCycle announces the fourth annual Recycled Playground Challenge, a contest with partners Colgate-Palmolive (“Colgate”) and Meijer, that encourages healthy habits among school children and their communities and awards a recycled playground to a winning school.

Regina Coeli Catholic School has unveiled its Outdoor Learning Area, just in time for spring... The school is collecting donations of toothpaste tubes, caps, floss containers, toothbrushes and Entenmann’s Little Bites plastic pouches through June 30 as part of playground challenge sponsored by Colgate & Meijer. The items will be sent to Terracycle, which turns them into new, recycled products.

ALLIANCE To help focus on its 21st Century Learning Initiative, Science and Literacy initiative, Regina Coeli Catholic School students will participate in recycling projects and by creating native habitats and a garden on school property.

ALLIANCE To help focus on its 21st Century Learning Initiative, Science and Literacy initiative, Regina Coeli Catholic School students will participate in in recycling projects and by creating native habitats and a garden on school property.

TerraCycle has announce the fourth annual Recycled Playground Challenge, a contest with partners Colgate-Palmolive and Meijer, that encourages healthy habits among school children and their communities and awards a recycled playground to a winning school.

ELKHART — Hively Avenue Preschool is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the third annual Recycled Playground Challenge, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive, Meijer and TerraCycle. Hively Avenue Preschool will earn one "Playground Credit" for each unit of oral care waste, such as empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers, sent to TerraCycle for recycling. A unit is defined as 0.02 pounds of used, post-consumer oral care products and packaging. An additional credit is earned for every online vote cast for the school at www.meijer.com/colgate by June 30. The grand prize is a playground made from recycled oral care waste collected through the Colgate Oral Care Recycling Program, a free national program operated by Colgate and TerraCycle

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Dozens of schools from six states competed and one local school took home the grand prize of a brand new playground made entirely of recycled materials. Legacy Christian Elementary School in Grand Rapids unveiled their new playground Wednesday afternoon at a ribbon cutting ceremony. Nearly 86,000 votes, more than 15,000 recycled materials and a countless amount of community support is what it took to win the 2016 Recycled Playground Challenge. The competition was put on by Colgate, Meijer and TerraCycle — a company that makes new products out of recycled material. Legacy’s new playground is made entirely from old oral care products — from toothbrushes to floss containers — which the students themselves contributed to. “It’s cool to think that my old toothbrush, instead of going in the trash, can go be made into our playground,” a Legacy Christian Elementary School student said. It’s also worth noting that both the first and second runner ups were also schools in West Michigan — Alto’s Kettle Lake Elementary and Dutton Christian School in Caledonia.

CUTLERVILLE, Mich. -- The students at Legacy Christian Elementary School are taking brushing and flossing to a new level. Over the past two years, they've been recycling old toothbrushes, floss containers, and toothpaste tubes in hopes of winning a new playground structure. Today their hopes were realized as they were rewarded with a new playground structure, for winning the Recycle Playground Challenge. It's a contest sponsored by Meijer and Colgate, and organized by Terra Cycle. "So it's very sturdy and it gives the kids something to be proud of," says Mamme Mensah, senior account manager with Terra Cycle. "Because they're able to see their achievement right up front and center." The kids at Legacy Christian Elementary recycled more than 15,000 oral care items to help win the grand prize: A $50,000 playground structure that should last for at least 30 years. They also earned more than 86,000 online votes to help win the prize. "It was a lot of work, and you kind of don't know what you're getting into when you first start," says Vickie Zylstra, the head of the Terra Cycle Committee and a parent at Legacy Christian. "But it was definitely rewarding. And you know, what a great thing we were able to bring to the school." Legacy Christian Elementary competed against 130 other schools from across Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, and Wisconsin to win the Recycle Playground Challenge.

The online contest sponsored by Meijer Colgate and recycling company TerraCycle is coming to an end tomorrow.

This playground contest sponsored by Colgate, Meijer, and TerraCycle comes completely from recycled dental care products.