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Big Rock Elementary has been participating in a program that utilizes many of the items that aren't typically recycled.  TerraCycle, a New Jersey company, pays for the items collected and turns them into a variety of other products.

During the 2010-2011 school year, Big Rock Elementary School students and teachers have raised approximately $150 by collecting items that would normally have been thrown away as trash.

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They collected things like foil pouches from their juice drinks and potato chip bags and send them off to a company called Terra Cycle in New Jersey.  The school gets money for the effort.  This year the students have been able to earn almost $200 dollars far.

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.

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