A new program from Mountain House allows you to send in your used Mountain House meals to be recycled. Mountain House recently partnered with TerraCycle in order to bring a free recycling program to Mountain House consumers in an effort to reduce waste and keep their meal pouches out of landfills.  

  You even earn reward points which turn into donations for a school or non-profit of your choice. This program is only open to the United States and pouches will need to have all food debris removed from them before sending. If you opt to wash or rinse out your pouch, you will need to make sure it has completely dried out before sending them in.

How to Recycle Mountain House Pouches:

1. Create a free account on TerraCycle.com and join the Free Mountain House recycling program.
2. Save your used Mountain House pouches instead of throwing them away.
3. When you are ready to recycle them, box them all up, log in to your TerraCycle account, click on profile & click “Get Shipping Label” to have a pre-paid shipping label emailed to you. Print off your pre-maid shipping label and attach it to your box.
4. Drop of your box at your nearest UPS store.

While you are at it, browse their other free recycling programs and join those whose products you use frequently. About TerraCycle TerraCycle is an innovative waste management company with a mission to eliminate the idea of waste®. Operating nationally across 21 countries, TerraCycle partners with leading consumer product companies, retailers, cities, and facilities to recycle products and packages, from dirty diapers to cigarette butts, that would otherwise end up being landfilled or incinerated. In addition, TerraCycle works with leading consumer product companies to integrate hard to recycle waste streams, such as ocean plastic, into their products and packaging. TerraCycle has won over 200 awards for sustainability and has donated over $25 million to schools and charities since its founding 15 years ago.

A new program from Mountain House allows you to send in your used Mountain House meals to be recycled.   Mountain House recently partnered with TerraCycle in order to bring a free recycling program to Mountain House consumers in an effort to reduce waste and keep their meal pouches out of landfills.   You even earn reward points which turn into donations for a school or non-profit of your choice.   This program is only open to the United States and pouches will need to have all food debris removed from them before sending. If you opt to wash or rinse out your pouch, you will need to make sure it has completely dried out before sending them in.  

How to Recycle Mountain House Pouches:

 

1. Create a free account on TerraCycle.com and join the Free Mountain House recycling program.
2. Save your used Mountain House pouches instead of throwing them away.
3. When you are ready to recycle them, box them all up, log in to your TerraCycle account, click on profile & click “Get Shipping Label” to have a pre-paid shipping label emailed to you. Print off your pre-maid shipping label and attach it to your box.
4. Drop of your box at your nearest UPS store.

  While you are at it, browse their other free recycling programs and join those whose products you use frequently.  

Recycling Today’s sustainability alert is a weekly roundup of sustainability news and announcements. TerraCycle, Mountain House announce free packaging recycling program Mountain House, Tangent, Oregon, and TerraCycle, Trenton, New Jersey, have partnered to offer consumers a free, easy way to recycle packaging from the freeze-dried food company’s product line. Mountain House labels itself as the gold-standard brand of camping and backpacking food. Through the Mountain House Recycling Program, consumers can send in their empty pouches to be recycled for free. Consumers can sign up on the TerraCycle program page and then mail in the packaging using a prepaid shipping label. Once collected, the packaging is cleaned and processed into a rigid plastic that can be molded into new recycled products. Additionally, for every pound of material shipped to TerraCycle, collectors can earn $1 to donate to a nonprofit, school or charitable organization of their choice. “Mountain House is giving their customers the unique opportunity to minimize their environmental impact by offering them a way to responsibly dispose of the packaging from their freeze-dried meals,” TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky says. “In turn, by participating in the Mountain House Recycling Program, customers are one step closer to truly minimizing their environmental impact.” The Mountain House Recycling Program is open to any interested individual, school, office, or community organization. In other TerraCycle news, Gillette, Boston, Massachusetts, customers will now be able to recycle disposable razors, replaceable-blade cartridge units and associated packaging nationally through a similar program and partnership with TerraCycle. Through the Gillette Recycling Program, participants can sign up for the program on TerraCycle’s website, package the razors in a secure, puncture proof package and send it to TerraCycle for recycling. Community organizations are also invited to set up public drop-off locations to support the program. TerraCycle and Gillette will provide an exclusive razor recycling bin. Starbucks trials recyclable cups Starbucks announced customers in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and London will help test a few different cups that will be both recyclable and compostable. The recyclable cup designs are a result of the NextGen Cup Challenge, in which 12 winners were announced February. Through the challenge, Starbucks, which is moving towards a goal to eliminate plastic straws from all stores worldwide by 2020, challenged brands, including Coca-Cola Company and McDonald’s, to develop recycling solutions for paper cups. In addition, Starbucks will roll out new lightweight, recyclable strawless lids to all stores in the United States and Canada in the next year, while strawless lids for cold drinks were rolled out in select stores last year. Starbucks says it is also testing some of the NextGen winner’s solutions that could apply to straws. Growing the Mr. Trash Wheel project Invented by John Kellet in May 2014 and maintained by Waterfront Partnership as part of its Healthy Harbor Initiative, the solar-powered Mr. Trash Wheel collects litter and debris from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The trash wheel project has collected and prevented more than one million pounds of discarded material, including plastic bags, foam containers and water bottles, from entering the oceans since its installation. The river’s current provides power to turn the water wheel, which lifts waste and debris from the water and deposits it into a dumpster barge. When the dumpster is full, the material is taken to a waste-to-energy plant, where it is burned to generate power for Maryland homes. According to a spokesperson for the initiative, Waterfront Partnership holds occasional “dumpster dives” to sort and recycle the collected plastics and polystyrene, but currently there are no plans to increase recycling of the material. “The Healthy Harbor team always says that the ultimate goal is for the trash wheel family to go out of business,” the spokesperson says. Two additional trash wheels have been installed in Baltimore with a fourth wheel in the planning stages for Gwynn's Falls, Baltimore. Beyond Baltimore, San Francisco Bay Area and Ballona Creek, California, have started the fundraising process to install trash wheels, with a goal to launch the projects by spring 2020.

Recycling Today’s sustainability alert is a weekly roundup of sustainability news and announcements. TerraCycle, Mountain House announce free packaging recycling program Mountain House, Tangent, Oregon, and TerraCycle, Trenton, New Jersey, have partnered to offer consumers a free, easy way to recycle packaging from the freeze-dried food company’s product line. Mountain House labels itself as the gold-standard brand of camping and backpacking food. Through the Mountain House Recycling Program, consumers can send in their empty pouches to be recycled for free. Consumers can sign up on the TerraCycle program page and then mail in the packaging using a prepaid shipping label. Once collected, the packaging is cleaned and processed into a rigid plastic that can be molded into new recycled products. Additionally, for every pound of material shipped to TerraCycle, collectors can earn $1 to donate to a nonprofit, school or charitable organization of their choice. “Mountain House is giving their customers the unique opportunity to minimize their environmental impact by offering them a way to responsibly dispose of the packaging from their freeze-dried meals,” TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky says. “In turn, by participating in the Mountain House Recycling Program, customers are one step closer to truly minimizing their environmental impact.” The Mountain House Recycling Program is open to any interested individual, school, office, or community organization. In other TerraCycle news, Gillette, Boston, Massachusetts, customers will now be able to recycle disposable razors, replaceable-blade cartridge units and associated packaging nationally through a similar program and partnership with TerraCycle. Through the Gillette Recycling Program, participants can sign up for the program on TerraCycle’s website, package the razors in a secure, puncture proof package and send it to TerraCycle for recycling. Community organizations are also invited to set up public drop-off locations to support the program. TerraCycle and Gillette will provide an exclusive razor recycling bin. Starbucks trials recyclable cups Starbucks announced customers in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and London will help test a few different cups that will be both recyclable and compostable. The recyclable cup designs are a result of the NextGen Cup Challenge, in which 12 winners were announced February. Through the challenge, Starbucks, which is moving towards a goal to eliminate plastic straws from all stores worldwide by 2020, challenged brands, including Coca-Cola Company and McDonald’s, to develop recycling solutions for paper cups. In addition, Starbucks will roll out new lightweight, recyclable strawless lids to all stores in the United States and Canada in the next year, while strawless lids for cold drinks were rolled out in select stores last year. Starbucks says it is also testing some of the NextGen winner’s solutions that could apply to straws. Growing the Mr. Trash Wheel project Invented by John Kellet in May 2014 and maintained by Waterfront Partnership as part of its Healthy Harbor Initiative, the solar-powered Mr. Trash Wheel collects litter and debris from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The trash wheel project has collected and prevented more than one million pounds of discarded material, including plastic bags, foam containers and water bottles, from entering the oceans since its installation. The river’s current provides power to turn the water wheel, which lifts waste and debris from the water and deposits it into a dumpster barge. When the dumpster is full, the material is taken to a waste-to-energy plant, where it is burned to generate power for Maryland homes. According to a spokesperson for the initiative, Waterfront Partnership holds occasional “dumpster dives” to sort and recycle the collected plastics and polystyrene, but currently there are no plans to increase recycling of the material. “The Healthy Harbor team always says that the ultimate goal is for the trash wheel family to go out of business,” the spokesperson says. Two additional trash wheels have been installed in Baltimore with a fourth wheel in the planning stages for Gwynn's Falls, Baltimore. Beyond Baltimore, San Francisco Bay Area and Ballona Creek, California, have started the fundraising process to install trash wheels, with a goal to launch the projects by spring 2020.

Mountain House, the leader in freeze-dried backpacking and emergency food options, has partnered with international recycling company TerraCycle® to offer consumers a free, easy way to recycle packaging waste from their line of Mountain House pouches.   "Since our inception nearly 50 years ago, Mountain House has been widely regarded as the gold-standard brand of camping food," said Brandy Lamb, Marketing Director. "We are conscious of how our packaging can impact the people and the planet we share, which is why we're pleased to add, through our partnership with TerraCycle, national recyclability to our commitment to consumers."   Through the Mountain House Recycling Program, consumers can now send in their empty pouch packaging to be recycled for free. Participation is easy: sign up on the TerraCycle program page https://www.terracycle.com/en-US/brigades/mountain-house and mail in the pouch packaging waste using a prepaid shipping label. Once collected, the packaging is cleaned and melted into hard plastic that can be remolded to make new recycled products. Additionally, for every one pound of waste shipped to TerraCycle, collectors can earn $1 to donate to a non-profit, school or charitable organization of their choice.   "Mountain House is giving their customers the unique opportunity to minimize their environmental impact by offering them a way to responsibly dispose of the packaging from their freeze-dried meals," said TerraCycle CEO and Founder, Tom Szaky. "In turn, by participating in the Mountain House Recycling Program, customers are one step closer to truly minimizing their environmental impact."   The Mountain House Recycling Program is open to any interested individual, school, office, or community organization. For more information on TerraCycle's recycling program, visit www.terracycle.com.